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Marvel’s Eternals will be one of the first movies in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, the film remains shrouded in mystery, and with its release date being pushed back to 2021, that may not change for a while. But the Internet always delivers, and a recent toy leak has given us a better idea of who the main villains in this MCU epic might be.

A Twitter account called Pop O’ Clock recently unearthed a listing for a number of new Funko Pop! figurines in development, including a series geared towards Eternals. Assuming this list is accurate, we can expect at least two major villains in the movie – Kro and Arishem the Judge.

If you haven’t read Jack Kirby’s classic The Eternals comics, you may not be familiar with either character. Read on for a recap of who they are and what role we can expect them to play in the long-awaited Eternals movie. Here are the topics  cover in this article:

• Who Is Kro?
• Kro’s Powers and Abilities
• Who Is Arishem the Judge?
• The Power of the Celestials
• How Will Kro and Arishem Fit into the Eternals Movie?

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Who Is Kro?

Kro is the leader of the Deviants, one of the ancient races created by the Celestials. We’ve explored the Deviants in greater depth before, but basically, they’re the dark opposite of the Eternals – a twisted, malformed race of monsters who believe they should inherit the Earth. And if Kro has his way, they might just succeed.

Kro has led many battles against the Eternals, but he’s also worked from the shadows to influence wars in the human world. For instance, he once assumed the guise of Rudolph Hendler, a Hitler-esque dictator who plunged the Marvel Universe’s Europe into war in the 1940s.

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Kro is often referred to as “Warlord Kro,” a testament to his skills as a tactician and military commander. It helps that Kro has had 20,000 years or so to hone those skills. Unfortunately, while his immortality makes him unique among the Deviants, it’s also a serious liability. Kro fears becoming a lab rat if his people ever discover his power, so he has a habit of creating fake identities and pretending to be his own descendants.

Kro is more than just the face of the Eternals’ greatest enemy, however. He’s also the former lover of Thena (played by Angelina Jolie in the film) and the father of her two children. Like angels and demons, Eternals and Deviants aren’t supposed to fraternize. But what better than a doomed romance to help put a human face on one of the Eternals’ greatest enemies?

Kro’s Powers and Abilities

Despite being the leader of the Deviants, Kro actually shares a lot in common physically with his enemies in the Eternals. Like them, Kro is immortal and possesses strength, stamina and healing far greater than that of an ordinary human. These physical gifts stem from his ability to mentally control the molecules of his body. This has allowed Kro to remain ageless and strong, and it also allows him to shape-shift into any form he chooses. Most Deviants are monstrous and disfigured in appearance, but Kro is only ever as ugly or handsome as he chooses.

Who Is Arishem the Judge?

Arishem is the leader of the Celestials, one of the oldest and most powerful races of sentient beings in the Marvel Universe. The Celestials are basically cosmic gardeners who travel the universe, seek out promising worlds and tinker with the gene pool of its inhabitants. Their goal is to further the genetic diversity of the universe and lay the foundation for ever newer and more powerful forms of life. The Eternals and Deviants are both the byproducts of Celestials tinkering with mankind’s prehistoric ancestors.

While the Celestials’ motivations are beyond the understanding of ordinary mortals, Arishem and his kind tend to play an antagonistic role in many stories. Arishem’s title denotes his role. He judges worlds on the basis of whether they show continued signs of growth and evolution. Those civilizations that are judged harshly by Arishem are subject to elimination. That’s where Arishem’s faithful executioner Exitar comes in.

The Power of the Celestials

Like all Celestials, Arishem is immensely powerful on a scale only rivaled by cosmic entities like Galactus or the most powerful gods like Odin and Zeus. Most Celestials are several thousand feet tall and have almost limitless strength and energy manipulation powers. Celestials are telepathically linked to one another and can manipulate energy on a huge scale, even creating pocket universes out of nothing.

No one knows what the Celestials actually look like beneath their massive, almost impenetrable armor. They may even look like humans, albeit extremely enormous ones.

While among the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe, Celestials aren’t invulnerable. A well-fed Galactus can go toe-to-toe with these beings. Even mortals are capable of killing them when wielding the right weapon. The Apocalypse Twins, Uriel and Eimin, managed to kill a Celestial by enchanting Thor’s old ax, Jarnbjorn. The symbiote god Knull is also notorious for slaughtering Celestials, as he holds a special hatred of them for disturbing his slumber at the dawn of time. Remember the floating space station of Knowhere in Guardians of the Galaxy? That used to be a Celestial’s head before Knull decapitated it. (The Celestials were also glimpsed in the first Guardians movie wielding the Infinity Stones at some point in the distant past.)

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How Will Kro and Arishem Fit into the Eternals Movie?

Marvel has revealed very little about the plot of Eternals beyond confirming the main cast of characters, hinting that Avengers: Endgame sets up the plot and revealing it’ll be the first MCU movie to feature an openly gay hero (Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos). But with these Funko POP toys seemingly confirming Kro and Arishem’s presence in the film, we now have a slightly better idea of the direction of the film.

For instance, while many Eternals fans are assuming the movie will draw inspiration from Neil Gaiman and John Romita Jr’s 2007 miniseries, Kro’s presence suggests the MCU is drawing more from the classic Eternals comics, where Kro played a bigger role. He definitely seems poised to be the main antagonist in the film and one of the key focal points as we see the long war between Eternals and Deviants play out over the centuries. In particular, we may see what hand Kro played in major world conflicts, similar to how he played the part of Rudolph Hendler in the comics.

We’re also expecting the Eternals movie to hinge heavily on Kro’s doomed love affair with Angelina Jolie’s Thena. The MCU placed a big emphasis on creating nuanced villains with relatable motivations in Phase 3 (Killmonger, Helmut Zemo and Thanos being a few examples) and Kro may continue that trend. Doomed love may be one of the big themes in Eternals, as we’re also anticipating a love triangle between Richard Madden’s Ikaris, Gemma Chan’s Sersi and Kit Harrington’s Dane Whitman.

As for Arishem, if he’s in the movie we can probably assume the Celestials have a big part to play. We’ve seen glimpses of these space gods in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, but here we’ll almost certainly learn more about their role in seeding new life across the universe. Arishem and his fellow Celestials may wind up serving as the true villains of the movie, as they return to Earth to judge human civilization and the Eternals have to make a case for sparing humanity.

For more on Marvel’s Eternals, find out how Phase 4’s release schedule has been affected by the coronavirus and check out our Eternals Explained feature.

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Jurassic Park is pushing three decades now, but this classic Steven Spielberg film still feels as fresh and exciting as it did in 1993. That made it a perfect candidate for IGN’s latest Watch From Home Theater, as Tim Murphy himself, Joseph Mazzello, chimed in to reflect on the movie and the experience of being a child star in what was once the biggest movie in Hollywood history.

If you missed this WFH Theater, you can still watch the commentary track in the video player above or the embed below. But if you just want to know the coolest and most surprising details Mazzello revealed during the course of his rewatch, we’ve recapped the chat below. And if you haven’t already, be sure to check out our previous recaps of the Rogue One WFH Theater and the 10 Cloverfield Lane WFH Theater.

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Meeting the T-Rex

When asked about his reaction to seeing the animatronic T-Rex in action, Mazzello told us he was hit not with a feeling of fear, but wonder at the sight of such a large machine. He admitted that viewers can actually tell which shots feature a CGI T-Rex versus practical effects, as it was too difficult for him to muster a sense of terror while admiring the machine.

He also clarified a popular rumor about the sequence where the T-Rex first debuts. While it’s untrue that the T-Rex wasn’t supposed to beak through the plexiglass roof of the Explorer, the scene didn’t exactly go off as planned. The animatronic dino hit the car with more force than expected, resulting in an unintentional blooper. If you look closely you can see the animatronic T-Rex has a missing tooth, as it accidentally broke off during the filming of that scene.

“That old rumor is… partially accurate, I’ll say,” Mazzello told us. “It was supposed to come down on us, and the plexiglass was supposed to come down from the roof of the car. But what wasn’t supposed to happen is it wasn’t supposed to come down as far or with the force it comes down on. So on one of the takes… a piece of it flies off. That was categorically not supposed to happen.”

He continued, “You can see it, if anyone is watching from home, you can pause it on the Blu-ray… The T-Rex lost a tooth, and it took like half an hour to get the tooth back in. So Spielberg was just like, ‘The heck with it, we’ll forget about it and do it without the tooth.’ There is a moment in the movie where the T-Rex opens up wide on us and he’s missing a tooth.”

The Hurricane was Real

The entire plot of Jurassic Park revolves around a freak tropical storm cutting off power on Isla Nublar and setting an entire zoo’s worth of man-eating dinosaurs free. In many scenes it genuinely looks like the actors are battling the worst Mother Nature has to offer, and that’s because they were. According to Mazzello, production was temporarily halted by a hurricane. Spielberg opted to make the best of this setback, using actual footage of the storm for several establishing shots in the final film.

The Brilliance of Steven Spielberg

Mazzello had plenty of praise for Spielberg over the course of the movie. “Spielberg’s a master. Every single shot is a work of art, the way he storyboards. He has a plan for everything and knows just how to execute it… You can think of 20 shots off the top of your head that are just iconic. There are images that are always used from this film and are always different. He’s just a master of his craft. He knows how to establish characters and what their journeys are going to be.”

One example Mazzello pointed to was the fact that Jeff Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm is first introduced in a shot where he’s framed between Laura Dern’s legs, setting the stage for the sexual chemistry between Malcolm and Ellie Sattler.

The Secret of the Automatic Cars

The film shows our heroes being guided on a tour of the park inside remote-controlled Ford Explorers. But as Mazzello revealed, Spielberg relied on a pretty low-tech solution for pulling off the illusion of self-driving cars in a pre-Tesla age. They were actually piloted by “ghost drivers” hidden from the camera.

And just to further destroy the illusion, Mazzello said the night-vision goggle prop didn’t actually work.

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Spielberg’s Consolation Prize

In one of many deviations from Michael Crichton’s original novel, the ages of Tim and his sister Lex are flipped in the movie. Mazzello told us there’s actually a very specific reason Tim was de-aged for the film. Spielberg made the change as a favor to Mazzello because the actor narrowly missed the chance to star in 1991’s Hook.

Spielberg’s Stance on Ad-Libbing

Mazzello reflected on the experience of working with a director as renowned as Spielberg. In some cases, Spielberg was unexpectedly economical, shooting single takes of scenes and moving on. But the director also encouraged his young stars to ad-lib, albeit with some helpful advice. Mazzello said in one scene he ad-libbed the line “This is the ’90s,” but Spielberg encouraged him to drop it so as not to unnecessarily date the film.

Reconnecting With the Cast

When asked if he still keeps in contact with his Jurassic Park costars, Mazzello said that while they developed a close bond during filming, the fact that they lived in a time before e-mail and smartphones made maintaining those friendships difficult. However, he said he did recently meet and catch up with Laura Dern.

However, Mazzello has maintained a close friendship with Spielberg to this day, with the two exchanging a number of letters over the years.

Mazzello’s Surreal College Years

Not only does Mazzello exchange letters with Spielberg, the director actually wrote Mazzello’s letter of recommendation to the University of Southern California. Unsurprisingly, he got accepted.

Mazzello’s Jurassic Park connections continued to impact his life at USC, with the actor revealing one of his exams was interrupted by composer John Williams, who was rehearsing for a concert performance later that night. “I was taking a test – a final exam or something – and outside the theater we hear all these scores. The band is playing E.T.’s score and then Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park. I’m like, what is going on?”

Revealing Tim’s Future?

With so much of the original Jurassic Park cast returning for the upcoming Jurassic World: Dominion, many fans are wondering if Mazzello and Ariana Richards might also return to reprise their roles as Tim and Lex, respectively. When an IGN reader asked what he thinks happened to Tim after the end of the original movie, Mazzello said, “I hope we get to find out someday. Not quite yet, but maybe someday we’ll figure out what happens to Tim.”

He continued, “It is a great question and something I do think about all the time, because there’s so much I think you could do with this character. He was the obvious heir to John Hammond’s fortune. He was the heir to Jurassic Park. Would this experience have turned him away from dinosaurs and make him hate dinosaurs as a thing he once truly loved? Would it be that he wants to be the one to step in and run the park the way it always should have been run?”

Sidebar – if you’re interested in reading one version of the story where an older Tim and Lex take charge of InGen, the 2010 comic Jurassic Park: Redemption serves as an alternate continuation of the original movie trilogy.

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Empathizing With Hammond

One of the more significant changes the movie makes to the source material involves the portrayal of Richard Attenborough’s character John Hammond. Whereas the book reveals Hammond to be a ruthless businessman who ultimately gets his just desserts, the movie version of Hammond is painted as a much more sympathetic, even childlike character. Mazzello told us this was intentional, as Spielberg wanted audiences to connect with Hammond and his desire to build something as wondrous as Jurassic Park.

Tim’s Rambo Moment

Apparently Mazzello isn’t the biggest fan of the climactic scene where Lex accesses the park’s UNIX computer network to reactivate the security system. Mostly because he felt Tim was too useless during the scene. But when asked if Tim should have acted differently, Mazzello replied, “I think I did the right thing. I rooted on my sister. I was there for moral support. I was in a managerial role, okay?”

He continued, “Do I wish I had picked up the gun and done a Rambo and killed every raptor and that was the end of the movie? Yeah, I do.”

The Face Replacement

Mazzello pointed out an interesting shot during the raptor climax, where Ariana Richards’ face was digitally super-imposed over the body of her stunt doubles. As far as he’s aware, this is one of the first examples of that technique in film.

Mazzello’s Favorite Bloopers

When asked about his favorite bloopers from filming, Mazzello reiterated his appreciation for that broken T-Rex tooth. He also pointed out that there’s a scene in the movie where he flubs the name of a dinosaur but Spielberg kept it in anyway.

For more on the future of the franchise, find out how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted filming on Jurassic World: Dominion and whether we’ll see snowbound dinosaurs in the sequel.

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The next update for the Square Enix MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV comes in the form of patch 5.3, subtitled Reflections in Crystal. It has been detailed by director/producer Naoki Yoshida and community manager Toshio Murouchi in the latest Letter From The Producer livestream, and like most FFXIV updates, it’s going to be huge. The upcoming patch includes the anticipated major overhaul for the base game A Realm Reborn, new main quests that continue the FFXIV’s story, new boss fights, and the next chapter in the Nier Automata crossover raid series YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse.

This next wave of main story quests will conclude the Shadowbringers expansion’s narrative arc and will have heavy story implications (as hinted by the revealed screenshots). A new instanced four-player dungeon, called The Heroes’ Gauntlet, will be included–it will work with the Trust system, which lets you run it alongside NPCs from the story as AI companions to fill the necessary roles. There’s going to be another trial boss fight tied to the main story as well, but it wasn’t revealed as to not spoil the surprise.

All players who have not completed the 24-player alliance raid series “The Crystal Tower” will be required to do so at some point before continuing the main story in the 5.3 update, and the game will notify players of this. Regardless, that raid series will be mandatory for those who look to finish the the base game for the first time when the patch hits since it’s directly tied to the Shadowbringers narrative arc.

As for the anticipated revamping of A Realm Reborn, which is part of patch 5.3, about 13% of its main questline will either be removed or condensed. One of the notable criticisms of the base game was the amount of filler that didn’t advance the story. Experience points from these quests are going to be adjusted so players can reach level requirements accordingly. Another addition is that players will be able to fly mounts in these old zones.

The other significant addition coming to FFXIV patch 5.3 is the next installment in the Nier Automata crossover raid series YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse–these are 24-player level 80 alliance raids. This new dungeon is called The Puppet’s Bunker and the only detail revealed so far was the key artwork, as you can see above. Those who have played Nier Automata may have an inkling as to how this raid will tie into the source material, but Yoshida-san and Murouchi-san did not say much more.

The first Nier Automata raid, The Copied Factory, came with patch 5.1 and brought many of the things you recognize from that game into FFXIV for its own contained story. If traditional cadence follows, you can expect the third and final chapter for the raid series in the future 5.5 patch, whenever that may be.

Several other changes and additions are set to for 5.3 including adjustments to Classes/Jobs and new PvP content; details are said to given in the next livestream. Side quests abound in this update including more in the Save The Queen, Resistance Weapons, Sorrow Of Werlyt, and Tribes questlines. Crafter and gatherer classes will get quality-of-life improvements like changes to the collectibles system, a custom delivery client, trial synthesis, and recipe searches in your inventory. New Ishgardian Restoration content and Skysteel Tools enhancements are also set to come with patch 5.3.

Limited-time Unreal trials are scheduled to come with each new patch, which syncs previous Primal boss fights up to level 80 while increasing their difficulty. Patch 5.3 will feature Shiva in the Akh Afah Amphitheater fight. Beating these boss battles earns you a chance to play the Faux Hollows minigame, but not much else was detailed.

Due to the circumstances around COVID-19 pandemic, companies around the world have adjusted their working conditions, Square Enix included. Patch 5.3 was originally scheduled for sometime in mid-June, but Yoshida-san stated that it’ll be delayed by at least 1-2 weeks and possibly a month.

Back in the 1990s, long before the MCU existed, the screen rights to Marvel’s many characters were dealt out to various studios, with several movies in development at the time that never got many and several that soon eventually did (Blade, X-Men, Spider-Man). One unrealized Marvel movie from the 1990s was 20th Century Fox’s Silver Surfer, which was to have been directed by Aussie filmmaker Geoffrey Wright (1992’s Romper Stomper). Now, a storyboard artist who worked on the project has revealed some artwork from the film — and revealed the two actors who were reportedly up for the lead roles.

In a series of revealing tweets (via THR), artist Gabriel Hardman revealed storyboards for a series of movies he worked on that never got made, including 1997’s Silver Surfer. Hardman said Wright “wanted Ewan McGregor as Surfer and Steven Berkoff as Galactus.” You can see his storyboards in the tweet below.

Here are some boards from the unmade Silver Surfer (1997). I couldn’t find much. pic.twitter.com/KafXcaAHiS

— Gabriel Hardman (@gabrielhardman) April 23, 2020

In 1997, McGregor was coming off the success of indie films like Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, and Emma and was still a few years away from joining the Star Wars franchise as young Obi-Wan Kenobi. Berkoff, meanwhile, is a veteran stage and screen actor and playwright who played the villain in Octopussy, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Beverly Hills Cop.

Back when studios still deemed comic book movies a risky prospect and visual effects were prohibitively expensive, Hardman revealed that “Surfer spent most of the movie as a human because vfx would have been too costly then.”

While the Silver Surfer movie obviously never got made, the character did make his feature film debut in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (portrayed by Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne). McGregor, meanwhile, went on to play the villain Black Mask in this year’s Birds of Prey.

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Do you think Ewan McGregor would have made for a good Silver Surfer? Sound off in the comments!

This is an advanced spoiler-free review of the series premiere of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, titled “Santa Muerte,” which is currently available to stream for free on YouTube and SHO.com. 

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After nearly four years off the air, Showtime’s supernatural darling returns with a provocative new entry that leaves gloomy Victorian London behind for the sunny skies of Los Angeles circa 1938. But don’t let those calming warm temperatures fool you, Penny Dreadful: City of Angeles is just as harrowing as its predecessor.

Leading the supernatural charge in this new iteration is Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer, who plays a dark goddess called Magda. While not all of her intentions are laid bare in the premiere, it appears that she’s attempting to infiltrate various facets of Los Angeles’ political and social spheres in order to create more chaos and death. But the really cool aspect of Magda is that she has the ability to take the appearance of anyone she chooses. It appears that Dormer is having a lot of fun portraying these different versions of herself, reminiscent of Tatiana Maslany’s memorable performance in Orphan Black. And whether she’s playing a seductive goddess decked out in tight black leather or an ambitious secretary, Dormer excels every time.

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The other supernatural force to be reckoned with is Lorenza Izzo’s Santa Muerte, the Angel of Holy Death and Magda’s sister. It appears that Logan is going to challenge the cliché version of Death from a stoic and indifferent figure to a person the viewer can actually relate to. Unlike her sister, Santa Muerte doesn’t get out much unless it has to do with ferrying the dead to the afterlife, but the episode has moments where we get a sense of the emotional toll it takes on Muerte for her to do her particular job.

On the non-supernatural side of things, the series is tackling a lot of topics here: Nazi spies, the construction of a massive automotive transit system that will cause thousands of Mexican-Americans to lose their homes, and oh yeah, there’s also the gruesome ritualistic murder of a Beverly Hills family that needs solving. Collectively, each storyline receives equal attentiveness; but some characters, like Thomas Kretschmann’s Nazi-supporting Richard Goss and Michael Gladis’ racist Councilman Townsend, are closer to caricatures than fully-realized people.

While not as much of a head-turner in name or appearance as Dormer, we spend most of our time with the LAPD’s first Mexican-American detective, Tiago Vega, who makes for an effective central figure due to his connections to both the Caucasian and Mexican communities of Los Angeles. His mother is a devout believer in Santa Muerte and all other supernatural matters, while Vega’s LAPD cohorts rely on the evidence they can see with their own eyes. Vega’s struggle to cope with the spiritual history of his people and the new world he so desperately wants to fit into provides a satisfying tension that thrums underneath everything else the season premiere is tackling.

The original Penny Dreadful series made our favorite 50 TV opening credits from 2008-2018. Watch the video below to see who else made our list.

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Ever since The Office ended in 2013, fans have been clamoring for a reunion – and despite pretty much everyone involved admitting that reassembling the busy and successful cast would be a gargantuan task, there could be a glimmer of hope on the horizon (especially following the news that the Parks and Recreation cast is reuniting for a scripted special for charity).

IGN spoke to The Office showrunner (and Parks and Rec co-creator) Greg Daniels ahead of the launch of his two upcoming streaming shows – Amazon’s Upload (premiering May 1), and Netflix’s Space Force (releasing May 29), which reunites Daniels with Office star Steve Carell – about the continued interest around an Office reunion, and whether he and Carell have discussed the possibility.

“It’s so personally satisfying for me to work with Steve again, and I have talked with Steve about the fact that in a year or so we’re gonna start on Peacock as a rerun and I’m sure that they would love something, some sort of a… something,” Daniels told IGN. “I’m a little reluctant to open up the characters’ endings because we wrote specifically to an ending, but as we hang around we sometimes think about [it]. And there is a script that was written in Season 1; there was an extra script written that was never shot, called ‘Pet Day,’ so I don’t know, sometimes we joke around about gathering to do Pet Day.”

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Rumors of an Office reunion have been percolating for years, with former NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt fanning the flames back in 2018 by publicly expressing interest in a revival.

Ever since then, the cast and writers have been grilled about a potential reunion at every opportunity – soon after Greenblatt’s comments, star John Krasinski told IGN, “I love the idea of coming back together… I think it’d be impossible to get us all together to do a run of the series, but [British shows] have the Christmas specials.”

Carell then staged a mini-reunion when he hosted Saturday Night Live, with former co-stars Ellie Kemper, Ed Helms, and Jenna Fischer jokingly harassing him about returning for a reboot. Soon after, a number of cast members reunited at Daniels’ home and recreated the character photo op from “A Benihana Christmas.” More recently, Krasinski reunited with Carell for the first episode of his Some Good News webseries.

“Some of the most fun memories, personally or professionally, are intertwined and connected with that show, without a doubt,” Carell said.

“Listen, I know everyone’s talking about a reunion; hopefully one day, we just get to reunite as people, and just all get to say hi,” Krasinski responded.

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How would you feel about an Office reunion or revival special? Weigh in below, and read up on HBO Max’s (sadly unscripted) Friends cast reunion coming later this year.

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