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\n Aaron Sorkin thinks he could still make The West Wing<\/em> today, but there is one political factor he thinks would be very different than when the series<\/a> ran 25 years ago: today\u2019s Republican Party.<\/p>\n

\n At an event in support of the upcoming book What\u2019s Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service<\/em> in Los Angeles on Saturday, Sorkin acknowledged that he is sometimes asked if the show would work in the present day.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cHonestly, I think it would for roughly the same reason it worked when it did, which is that, first of all, it was a good show, just good stories well told by a great group of people,\u201d he explained to the crowd at the Skirball Cultural Center. \u201cBut by and large, in popular culture, our leaders are portrayed either as Machiavellian or as dolts, right? It\u2019s either a House of Cards <\/em>or Veep.<\/em> The idea behind The West Wing <\/em>was what if they were as competent and as dedicated as the doctors and nurses on hospital shows, the cops on the cop shows, the lawyers on a legal drama, that kind of thing. And the result was something that was idealistic and it was aspirational.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n He continued that he thought audiences would respond the same way today, but \u201cwhat would be different would be this, and I don\u2019t want to get a rumble started over anything. This is simply what would be different. I\u2019m afraid to say that right now \u2014 and maybe things will be different a year from now or two years from now, but right now \u2014 it would be implausible that the opposition party, that the Republican Party, was reasonable. People would watch that and it would be unfamiliar to them as the country that they live in. On the show, while the Republicans were the opposition, they were reasonable, the Republicans that they dealt with.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n The series, which starred Martin Sheen as Democratic President Jed Bartlet, ran from 1999 to 2006 and was created by Sorkin. He also wrote the foreword for What\u2019s Next<\/em>, which was written by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald\u00a0and\u00a0Mary McCormack. The author duo was joined at the event by Sorkin and actors Richard Schiff,\u00a0Dul\u00e9 Hill and\u00a0Janel Moloney, with Hrishikesh Hirway\u00a0and\u00a0Josh Malina as moderators. Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford also made brief app<\/a>earances via video. <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s very interesting to read the oral history and to read other people\u2019s takes on what was happening. It really brought back memories and it just makes you want to keep going,\u201d Sorkin said of the book. \u201cA big part of the motivation in writing a new script every nine days for this was being able to put something on the table that these actors would like; they were the first audience for the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n He added, \u201cI continue to be motivated by that. I want to write something else that they want to do,\u201d as Malina teased that he already had audiences primed for a West Wing<\/em> reboot on his social media<\/a> channels. Sorkin replied, \u201cStill need to have an idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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