‘The Office’ Creator Greg Daniels on Returning to the Funny TV Business With ‘Space Force’ and ‘Upload’

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Greg Daniels hasn’t written TV since TheOffice went off the air, but his DNA is everywhere. ParksAndRec, NeverHaveIEver and Superstore were all created by TheOffice alum

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Along the way, “Upload” settled into its final form: a satirical look at life later this century, when income inequality somehow extends into the afterlife, as humans can upload their conscious thoughts into the cloud and live on — at a price. “The unfairness at the center of a for-profit tech-company-run afterlife just seemed like it was good subject matter,” Daniels says.

Much of that research came from the Consumer Electronics Show. “You can figure out what the devices are that they’ve managed to get a working prototype on but haven’t been widespread,” Daniels says. “I picked very widespread drones, 3D printing for food and clothing and a lot more Siri-type AI stuff that’s embedded in different things.”

“Greg Daniels was the first and only person that came to mind,” Carell says of partnering with his old pal. “He’s smart, funny and has excellent taste. I trust him implicitly. More often than not, our instincts align with one another. We generally find the same sort of things funny, or moving, or intriguing. That has been the case since we first met.

 

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