Thursday, March 20, 2008

Rainn Wilson and Greg Daniels Conference Call

Hello Dunderheads!

I just had an amazing time this afternoon. I was on a media conference call with Rainn Wilson and Greg Daniels for the past 90 minutes. I will have my full interview with them up in the near future, but I wanted to share some tidbits for you that they both shared!

There is new information here, and nothing too spoiler-like, but if you're a puritan for Office, you may want to stop reading now.

For the rest of you, here's some of the fun facts that I've gleaned from the call.

- There was a Christmas Episode mostly finished before the strike. Greg stated that they are going to vulture some of the material from it for the future.

- Rainn Wilson has a Dwight bobble-head on a shelf in his house. His 3 year old son used to love playing with it.

- John Krasinski will be the 'host' of the April 3rd airing of the past four Office episodes and will shows clips from "Leatherheads" too.

- Schrute Space (Dwight's Blog) on NBC.com used to be written by Rainn, however this year he's handed the reigns over to a staff writer to do Schrute Space.

- There was a cameo written for Mackenzie Crook (Gareth Keenan on the BBC "Office") earlier in the show. It never came to pass because Mackenzie was busy with Pirates of the Carribean.

- The producers of "The Office" have a deal with the producers of "Unhitched" so that they could still use Rashida Jones (Karen) on the show. They have one more 'use' left in that current agreement.

- Greg Daniels stated that they are looking into "playing with time" on the show. Kind of like LOST. [I think this means we could see some flashbacks. Wouldn't it be great if they did flashbacks like Friends used to?]

- Angela's real-life pregnancy will not be written into the show (Kate Flannery mentioned this in her blog too). You'll see Angela behind the copy machine a lot.

- We're going to see some of Dwight's ex-girlfriends and those storylines in the future.

So, keep checking back often to see when we put up the full interview!!

7 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting this stuff for us starved "Officionados!"

    I liked it when you said that Rainn "handed the reins over to a staff writer." "Rainn's reins" has a nice ring to it.

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  2. Thanks Bob! Rainn's reign is over as Rainn hands over the reigns.

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  3. can't wait for the whole interview!

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  4. Thanks so much for the great update and spoilers! This was so fun to read! I'm so excited to see a new episode again!

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  5. Awesome awesome awesome!!

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  6. WOW KEITH! WOW! MY HEAD IS SPINNING! QUITE IMPRESSIVE AND DAWESOME!! I CAN'T WAIT FOR ALL THE OTHER FINE LITTLE DETAILS FROM THE BIG CONFERENCE CALL!

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  7. Thanks BHG!! About time we saw you over here in SBO land! :)

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