Rainn Wilson is sharing his thoughts on The Office.
The 59-year-old actor, who played the role of Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom, was a guest on the Tuesday (September 9) episode of The Last Laugh. On the podcast, Rainn opened up about a cancelled spin-off based on his character.
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Rainn shared that a spin-off series called The Farm was in the works with a backdoor pilot being planned as an episode of the final season of The Office. The network chose not to move forward with the spin-off, which Rainn says was a mistake.
“And they were just not interested at all in Office spinoffs at the time. Had they taken The Farm they’d probably have another billion dollars in the bank,” Rainn said on the episode. “Even now, all the people that have seen The Office 20 times, they’re going to watch The Farm at least once or twice.”
Despite saying that the network made a mistake not moving forward with the spin-off, Rainn said that it wouldn’t have been as good as the classic comedy was.
“Would it have been good? Would it have been solid? Would it have been a good solid comedy? Yeah, it would have, and we would’ve done some really cool stuff,” Rainn said, though he admitted that it wouldn’t have been “close” to as funny as The Office. “And I think they really missed out.”
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