New The Office reportedly casts Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore
Greg Daniels' mysterious new Office revival/reboot/spin-off situation has apparently cast its first stars
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What is going on with this new The Office thing? The possible reboot/possible revival/possible spin-off has been all smoke and mirrors and Greg Daniels schemes. But it’s real enough to have apparently bagged two pretty big names as the first actors cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Domhnall Gleeson (of the Star Wars sequel trilogy) and Sabrina Impacciatore (of the second season of The White Lotus) have signed on to join this amorphous mystery version of the beloved sitcom.
As we’ve been following, Daniels (who created the American version of the workplace comedy) has been developing some new version of the show that’s set in the same universe as the one that’s home to Michael Scott (Steve Carrell), Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson), and Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer). Last month, it was reported that Daniels had brought on Nathan For You co-creator Michael Koman to be his partner on this new project, which as of yet has no studio attached. Now, THR says the duo “have been casting a wide net to find talent availabilities for the latter half of this year.”
Basically, we don’t know anything about what the show will be like or what the actors will be doing yet. But you couldn’t really ask for better stars than Gleeson and Impacciatore. Impacciatore was a standout in the darkly comedic White Lotus. And Gleeson has proven his range, from sniveling and unpleasant in Star Wars to warm, funny, and charming in About Time. Beyond their many talents, the casting also suggests an interestingly international bent to this new Office (Impacciatore is Italian and Gleeson is Irish). That’s a departure from the sort of homogenous middle America of Scranton, Pennsylvania in Daniels’ original. We’ll have to wait and see what Daniels and co. have in store.
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I’m so tired
Nice to meet you, Tired.
*So Tired
That’s what she said.
Tired of playing the game.
Ain’t it a crying shame!
I haven’t slept a wink.
why
Studios are more likely to make money from something people are already familiar with than take the risk on something new.
I know The Office has taken on a life of its own since COVID but does everyone really forget how the last ~4 seasons were basically hot garbage?
Or how the first season was racist garbage?
If this show doesn’t try to replicate the character personalities / relationships from the original series and continue to cast good actors like this, I could be interested. Generally agree that a new version of The Office is unnecessary but that doesn’t mean it’ll be bad.
– The AV Club, circa 2004
Oh, so this is an easy skip for me.
I think Domhnall Gleeson is a really interesting performer and I kind of don’t want to see him relegated to a sitcom for years. (Assuming this will basically be “Another Office”.) He was a bit wasted in the Star Wars sequels. He was good in “The Patient”, opposite former “Office” boss Steve Carell
“A bit wasted in the Star Wars sequels” indeed. They took what could have been a genuinely powerful opponent (both to the rebellion and Kylo Ren) and turned him into a farcical buffoon with an unearned and unbelievable “redemption” (and then immediate death) as the rebel spy. Just appalling.
Was he though? I thought he was a buffoon from the start. His screaming speech on Starkiller Base right before it wiped out the entire Hosnian system was fanatical and unhinged, more like a cultist than a high-ranking military officer. He hated and looked down on Ren but was too scared to ever stand up to him when face to face. His turn to spy was explicitly stated as having nothing to do with the Resistance, but just because he wanted Ren to fail. It was exactly as petty and pathetic as every other thing we’d seen from him, and I laughed when he was immediately exposed and executed like a chump.This is not to disparage Gleeson, who I think did great in his role. He played a loathsome, sniveling weasel perfectly.
Exactly! His speech was that of a true believer – a fanatic – it was Hitler-esque in how unhinged it was. That’s the point. But then he was, as you say, a sniveling weasel when he *could* have been a genuinely great foil.
I think there’s no reason he can’t be both. The Nazi party (to which the First Order parallels are obvious) was made up of various unhinged, petty, not entirely competent middle management types, and together they wrought terrible destruction across Europe before imploding. I think they could have made Hux a snivelling weasel who nonetheless poses a significant threat to the characters just by having access to power.
“A bit wasted” is probably the best way to watch the Star Wars sequels.
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god PLEASE just cancel this now. I’ll sacrifice the finest black sheep and white bull in my holdings
We’ll settle for a six-pack of Red Bull.
See, black livestock gets sacrificed like this. But white livestock gets sacrificed like this.
Largely uninterested in this, but I am happy Domnhall Gleeson is still getting work. Let’s keep it that way.
My favourite Domhnall Gleeson role is in the movie “Frank”. Man, I still wish that was a real band…
I mean , it sort of was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Sievey
Yeah, I knew it was based on Sievey. I have at least one album by the Freshies but never got into the Frank Sidebottom stuff. I wish that the band as they were in the movie “Frank” (i.e., the weirdo experimental noise drone band) was an actual band — they were really interesting (I also liked the movie band from “Sound of Metal”).
A guy who starred in both the Star Wars and Harry Potter franchises, and has production credits recently, probably isn’t hurting for work.
I meant it less in the ‘he needs it’ camp and more in the ‘I need it’ camp
Never have I wanted a project to unravel more than this one. I can’t put into words how much I do not want this to come to fruition. In a time of lazy reboots and sequels/prequels, just let this one go. Daniels doesn’t need the money. Just move on.
Oh for fuck’s sake, let something die for once. They made like seven hundred thousand seasons of the last one.
I hadn’t exactly been following Domnhall Gleeson’s career since Ex Machina, so I was shocked at how different he looks now. Didn’t recognize him at all.
For a moment I thought it was a young David Wenham (Faramir from LotR).
Faramir? Faramir? A fuck coma patient in a fucking sword-and-sandals flick? You will refer to him by his greatest role, John. Francis. Spitieri.
If Domhnall Gleeson gets a mullet, then he can look like Spiti.
They don’t look too thrilled about it.
Apropos of absolutely nothing, give him some enormous sideburns and a few more years and Gleeson would be a picture perfect Banshee if Marvel does Generation X in the MCU
Just call it something else. Ricky Gervais doesn’t need the money.
Does NBC understand that the success of the original Office US is totally linked to the fact that they said a bunch of stuff on that show that isn’t politically correct to say on TV anymore…?
No… there’s no way anyone realized that (rolls eyes)
I hate this idea but ngl I loved Domhnnall Gleeson in that episode of Black Mirror with Hayley Atwell
Did he recently play that guy whose brain got launched into space on 3 Body Problem. Because if so (I googled, it isn’t) I love him.
Genuinely the sight of Domhnall Gleeson makes me sad because it makes me immediately think of that episode of Black Mirror. That episode… s02e01 I believe, is one of the most harrowing episodes of TV I’ve ever seen. Anytime I’m missing another person that episode pops into mind. There have been few episodes of TV that have been that affecting. Season 2 of “Master Of None” episode “Thanksgiving” comes to mind. That shit’s so heavy.
Do people realize that The Office (US) was a reboot of The Office (UK)? lol americans think everything is about them
Did you just find that out? Literally everyone already knows. There are plenty of reasons to laugh at Americans but you’re late to the party on this one.
Your go-tos for Domnhall Gleeson were “Star Wars” and “About Time?” Jesus….