Melora Hardin reveals she has spoken to Greg Daniels about a reboot of ‘The Office’

Another member of “The Office” cast is open to returning to Dunder Mifflin.

Amid rumors that a reboot of NBC’s “The Office” is in the works, Melora Hardin — who played Jan Levinson on the sitcom — revealed she would enthusiastically return to the series if asked.

“I would certainly show up. I think a lot of us would,” she told The U.S. Sun. “But I think it’s going to have to be something special because otherwise why do it?”

“We’ve already done an incredible series that people are watching and re-watching, and for generations. It’s just still living and very iconic,” Hardin continued.

Hardin confirmed she has discussed potential plots for a reboot of “The Office” with the series’ original showrunner, Greg Daniels.

In her interview with The U.S. Sun, Hardin said, “I thought this would be funny if Jan was like a self-help guru because she was so kind of flawed. And at the end when you last saw her, she was sort of still pretty hard.”

“And what if she’d just gone and had a major midlife crisis that made her completely transform and she’d learned how to become a coach. ... Michael dealing with that would be hilarious.”

Is Greg Daniels working on a reboot of ‘The Office’?

As the Hollywood strikes came to a close this fall, reports surfaced that Daniels would return to work on a reboot of “The Office.”

“Greg Daniels is set to do a reboot of ‘The Office.’ ... Disney’s Dana Walden will finally be able to announce the return of her BFF Ryan Murphy from Netflix. A ton of high-profile movie scripts will come in. The industry will chug back to normal,” reported Puck News in September.

Details about the potential reboot are limited. An official cast list or release date for the reboot has not been released.

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Several original cast members are open to an ‘Office’ reboot

Hardin is not the only original cast member from “The Office” open to participating in a reboot. But Daniels has suggested that a reboot would not have “the same characters,” according to a Collider article from 2022.

Daniels thinks an expansion of “The Office” universe would make for an enjoyable reboot.

“(‘The Office’) was such a wonderful and rare experience that obviously you don’t want to just go back to it and kind of possibly disappoint people when right now, they couldn’t be happier about it. ... I think 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,’” Daniels told Collider.

It is not entirely clear what Daniels has in mind for a potential reboot of the sitcom, but several stars, such as John Krasinski and Rainn Wilson, have expressed interest in participating if the reboot does happen.

Here is what some of the stars have said about a reboot of “The Office.”

• John Krasinski: “‘The Office’ was absolutely everything to me. I mean, it is my beginning and my end. I’m pretty sure at the end of my career I’ll still be known for Jim,” Krasinski told Esquire in 2020. “So yeah, if they did a reunion, I would absolutely love to do it.”

• Mindy Kaling: “If Greg Daniels was in charge of it, I would be excited and supportive and try to help in any way I could,” Kaling told StyleCaster in 2021. “It had to be the right person steering the ship, but if it was Greg, who was the mastermind of the American ‘Office,’ it would be a great show.”

• Rainn Wilson: “If we had pandemic episodes, that would’ve been amazing,” Wilson shared during an appearance on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” along with a few potential storylines for his character. “‘The Office’ writers were so great — they would’ve been able to spin that in some beautiful ways.”

• Steve Carell: “I’ve never thought of it as a good idea,” Carell told Time magazine in 2018. “I think it existed in that time and with those people and it felt right. There was something so special about it, and I guess it’s an odd way to put it, but I love it too much to ever want to do it again. It’s too special to me in my heart in that period of time.”