Aaron Sorkin, the creator of the favored political drama, The West Wing, has revealed that he’s contemplating a reboot of the collection after attending a twenty fifth anniversary celebration for the present on the White Home this previous Friday.
Chatting with Selection in an interview on the identical day, Sorkin defined that he had solely begun significantly considering a West Wing reboot after attending the occasion. “I didn’t give it some thought significantly, frankly, till right now,” he stated. “I simply obtained a few concepts for episodes simply strolling across the White Home. Like, ‘why didn’t we ever do that? Why didn’t we ever try this?’ … We’ll see what occurs once I get up tomorrow. However, should you’re asking me now, that is how I really feel.”
Persevering with, Sorkin mused on a number of the challenges that might be concerned in bringing again the uber-idealist present in a political panorama that has advanced considerably for the reason that finish of its run in 2006. “We couldn’t probably give you tales within the room which might be crazier than the precise tales that we see,” he stated. “So, it might be laborious, however as Brad Whitford, as Josh Lyman, says within the Season 3 premiere: ‘It’s gonna be laborious,’ and Toby says, ‘It’s the laborious that makes it good.’”
Sorkin additionally admitted that previously, he had reservations about bringing again The West Wing resulting from issues that audiences would miss the unique forged. “I think {that a} new president would have a tough time dwelling as much as folks’s reminiscences of Martin [Sheen]. However perhaps sufficient time has handed, and it’s an entire new era. A era which, by the way in which, because of streaming, thinks we’re making the present right now!”
Warner Bros. TV chairman Channing Dungey, who additionally attended the anniversary celebration, echoed Sorkin’s sentiment, telling Selection, “There are a whole lot of reveals proper now which might be doing reboots, and I feel it might be laborious to return to The West Wing, however I wouldn’t put it previous Aaron. He’s a really good man… [but] In case you began now, right now, within the present local weather, it might positively be completely different. The political panorama has shifted so much since this present was made.”
When requested about how the prospect of a second Trump time period would impression a doable West Wing revival, Sorkin indicated that he would view it as a inventive problem. “It will actually current incentives to do it, but in addition complications,” he stated. “The fear could be that all the things we did on the present could be seen as a rebuttal to the world of Donald Trump.”
The West Wing twenty fifth anniversary occasion itself was hosted on the White Home, with appearances by each President Joe Biden and First Woman Jill Biden. Additionally in attendance have been many distinguished figures from the present, together with Sorkin, Dungey, producer Thomas Schlamme, and stars Sheen, Richard Schiff, Dulé Hill, Janel Moloney, Emily Procter, Melissa Fitzgerald, and Mary McCormack.
On the celebration, Sorkin gave a speech alluding to the modifications in politics since 2006, and highlighted the idealistic notion of a “West Wing second” as one thing for real-life politicians to aspire to. “You don’t have to look very far to see reminders of how unhappy it’s about how far we’ve gone,” he stated. “However I don’t assume we’ve gone to this point that we are able to’t come again. Hopefully we’ll repair it.”
For extra, revisit the 2019 article by myallmovies’s Clint Worthington discussing The West Wing’s legacy and the way it could have heralded the turbulent interval of politics that adopted its conclusion.
