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  Aaron Sorkin has dream President for "West Wing" sequel, wants original cast to appear "Brett A. Pasternack" <brettalan@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 13:38 -0500

#1182446 — Aaron Sorkin has dream President for "West Wing" sequel, wants original cast to appear

http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/aaron-sorkin-dreams-of-a-sterling-k-brown-west-wing-reboot.html

Aaron Sorkin Has a Vision for a West Wing Reboot Where Sterling K.
Brown Is Our Hot President
By Dee Lockett

Never has America needed the leadership of an attractive, levelheaded,
objectively perfect human more than the present, and Aaron Sorkin
knows just the man for the job. Speaking to THR about how he’d plot a
West Wing reboot, for which he says he has a standing offer at NBC,
this is his vision: “Sterling K. Brown as the president, and there’s
some kind of jam, an emergency, a very delicate situation involving
the threat of war or something, and [President] Bartlett [played by
Martin Sheen], long since retired, is consulted in the way that Bill
Clinton used to consult with Nixon.” Yes, Sterling K. Brown, already
the new king of NBC, would be our sexy, shirtless TV president if
Sorkin gets his wish. Sure, he makes no mention of Brown’s abs, but by
now it has to be in the man’s contract.

Though Sorkin has been mulling West Wing reboot ideas, it’ll be a long
road ahead; he says he keeps hitting a wall when figuring out how to
fit in Allison Janney’s C.J. Cregg or Bradley Whitford’s Josh Lyman in
Sterling K. Brown’s America. Meanwhile, NBC Entertainment chairman Bob
Greenblatt won’t stop coaxing him.

Sorkin also says in the interview that he’s hitting the brakes on his
live adaptation of A Few Good Men for NBC, starring Alec Baldwin,
because he’s struggling to update his original play. He’s now pushing
it from spring 2018 to sometime in 2019.

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