The Office character Dwight, self-described as “hardworking, alpha male, jackhammer,” may get his own spin-off series, in which he is a farmer.
NBC reportedly is planning a spinoff of The Office featuring Rainn Wilson.
“They say that no man is an island.… False. I am an island and this island is volcanic and it’s about to erupt,” Wilson’s character famously said, and perhaps he’s right.
The network is considering allotting the actor, who plays the hilariously peculiar Dunder Mifflin staffer, Dwight Shrute, his own show.
It would centre around Dwight’s beet farm and bed-and-breakfast, which he runs with his eccentric cousin Mose.
According to the Toronto Star, a source told Deadline: “[The Office executive producer Paul Lieberstein] and Rainn have been joking for years about Dwight’s life on the farm, his family and how ill-suited he is to run a B&B.
“A while ago, it started to feel like a show to them. NBC agreed, it’s been further developed to include multiple generations, many cousins and neighbours … At its base it will be about a family farm struggling to survive and a family trying to stay together.”
In recent episodes, Dwight failed to get the manager’s job when Steve Carell‘s character Michael Scott quit, and has been increasingly unsatisfied with his sales job and is looking to explore other options. Perhaps relocating to run a B&B on a reclusive beet farm is just what the doctor ordered.
Verdict: a bizarrely comedic character stuck on a farm with his family? Yes, please.
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