


The possibility of the people person’s paper people (more formally known as The Office‘s cast of Dunder Mifflin employees) returning with a reboot broke the internet in a Puck newsletter last month.
However, showrunner Greg Daniels is setting the reboot rumors record straight.
“Well, I think that it’s very speculative,” he shared in an interview with Collider. “The fact that it kind of blew up based on one line in a Puck piece was kind of cool, I guess, in the sense that the fans still care a lot.”
He then clarified that “when there’s something to announce, [he] will definitely announce it.”
Daniels did tell Collider that he had chatted with NBC about the possibility of a reboot. The Office originally ran on NBC from 2005 to 2013, during which the show starred a hilarious cast of Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer and more.
He previously told the outlet that if a reboot were to take place, he thought it “would just be sort of like an extension of the universe, you know what I mean, like the way [The] Mandalorian is like an extension of Star Wars.”
“But I don’t know if that would be something people would want or not, it’s hard to tell,” he added.

In 2019, Daniels seemed to hint that he wanted to keep Dunder Mifflin where he left it and not bring the show back to life. Daniels told Entertainment Weekly at the time that the series “was such a perfect thing that [he] would hesitate to open it up” with a reboot.
“But, that said, I don’t know, the cast every now and then talks about getting back together in some form, but I don’t see it being a reboot like the way Will & Grace was rebooted,” he noted.
The Office is streaming on Peacock.