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by Ethan Anderton Posted:September 2nd, 2010 at 5:30 pm
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We’re going get a lot candidates to replace Steve Carell once he finishes his final season of The Office next spring. And while we probably won’t report on every single one of them, this new candidate comes straight from showrunner Paul Lieberstein (who also plays Toby Flenderson). The man in charge thinks Harvey Keitel (who jumped to television with Life on Mars) is the right man for the job. Lieberstein says, “He’s probably the only guy who can do it, and he’s doing TV now. I haven’t started any talks with his people, but Harvey would do a great job — a very different energy.” Hit the jump for details on his potential character and my thoughts on replacing Steve Carell on the series.
Lieberstein elaborated to E! Online on his desire to have Keitel join the cast,
“He’s a real tough guy, but I saw him in Life on Mars and I saw a lot more comedy in his work, just little slivers of it, little things he would do that made me think he’s capable of a lot more than what [he's done]. And we don’t want to bring in another Michael, having someone play a very similar character because we have such a high regard for Steve.”
With regards to the new character that Keitel would take on, Lieberstein revealed,
“He’s an old salesman who thought he could retire and the stock market went down, and he has to come out of retirement to work for a few years.”
It definitely sounds like an interesting character, but I’m wondering if Keitel would be a replacement for Carell or simply a new cast member joining the office with one of the current employees being promoted. Recently on the red carpet for the Emmys, producer Ricky Gervais even commented that we should be less worried about who will be brought in to replace Carell and more concerned with one of the current cast members stepping up to fill the supervising void. Don’t forget Danny McBride and Rhys Darby have also been mentioned as potential newcomers. Surely we’ll have a more definite idea of what changes are coming to the cast once this coming season starts to wind down in the spring, but for now, what do you guys think of Harvey Keitel heading to Scranton?
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About a day late on this one Ethan you hack!
But I could go both ways with Harvey. So I say yes.
cancel the show, the office died a long time ago.
cancel the show, the office died a long time ago.
Um, sorry I guess?
please no…. no no no!!!!
Why cancel the show when they might finally have a GOOD actor in the lead who’s actually worth to fill Ricky Gervais shoes.
Ethan, at least you respond to your protesters lol. Anyway, I am all for it! I think if Harvey came in, and did a role like his role from Pulp Fiction “The Wolf”, there could be plenty of fast paced comedic gold. Just a no none sense kind of character who has a huge ego. That would be fun for Harvey to play in my mind.
I think it could work but I would really like Danny McBride. However if it came at the expense of EASTBOUND AND DOWN no way. SEASON DOS bitches lol
I’d like to see Paul Rudd give it a try.
Danny McBride would be something… I don’t know if he looks the part, but would be absurdly funny anyway.
Harvey Keitel would be a cool character on the show, but I doubt the show is going to survive without Steve Carell.
I’m just seeing what happened with The X-Files when David Duchovny left. “Mulder” WAS The X-Files, just as “Michael Scott” IS The Office. Just my opinion, and I definitely hope the show does well without him. I just don’t believe it’ll last long without Carell there.