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the-west-wing”>The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin has said he is considering rebooting the show after celebrating its 25th anniversary at the White House.

The political drama, ran between 1999 and 2006, focusing on the fictitious administration of President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen).

Last week the cast of the show reunited at the 76th Emmy Awards and Sorkin recently saidto-show-republicans-as-reasonable-3782944″> that it would be “implausible” to make the Republican Party look “reasonable” if the show was made today.

Now, after attending the White House on Friday (September 20) with Sheen and the rest of the show’s stars including Richard Schiff, Dulé Hill, Janel Moloney, Emily Procter, Melissa Fitzgerald, and Mary McCormack, he told Variety: “I didn’t think about it seriously, frankly, until today… We’ll see what happens when I wake up tomorrow. But, if you’re asking me now, this is how I feel.”

Martin Sheen speaks alongside US First Lady Jill Biden and members of the cast of ‘The West Wing’ at the White House in Washington DC, on September 20, 2024 CREDIT: SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images

He continued: “I just got a couple of ideas for episodes just walking around the White House. Like, ‘Why didn’t we ever do this? Why didn’t we ever do that?’”

Sorkin also admitted that in the past, he had reservations about bringing the NBC show back because he feared audiences would miss the original cast too much.

He added: “I suspect that a new president would have a hard time living up to people’s memories of Martin [Sheen] . But maybe enough time has passed, and it’s a whole new generation. A generation which, by the way, thanks to streaming, thinks we’re making the show today!”

When asked about how the prospect of Trump serving a second term would impact a possible West Wing revival, Sorkin said: “It would certainly present incentives to do it, but also headaches. The worry would be that everything we did on the show would be seen as a rebuttal to the world of Donald Trump.”





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