Rashida Jones Is Hoping for aParks and RecreationReunion 'Sometime Soon’

Mar. 15, 2025

(L-R) Rashida Jones as Ann Perkins and Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation.

Rashida Jonesis getting nostalgic.

“Oh man, I hope sometime soon,” she said of a revival, noting: “I know [co-creator] Mike Schur was like, ‘There has to be a reason for us to do it. We can’t just do it.’”

“But I would love that,” Jones, 48, added.

Jones even suggested the show reboots every five years since that’s how long it’s been since the 2020 special. Bringing it back this year would be even more meaningful because the final season took place in the future, and 2025 was where it stopped.

“Wait, were we in 2025 in the end?” Jones realized. “That’s crazy!”

(L-R) Adam Scott, Rashida Jones and Amy Poehler on Parks and Recreation.Tyler Golden/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

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Jones has been dreaming of a spinoff show with herParks and Recfamily since she first started playing Ann Perkins on the NBC sitcom in 2009.

In April, she spoke withThe Independentto commemorate 15 years since it first premiered, whereshe explained that one random ideashe and her costars came up with during their “free time” almost came to fruition.

“During our free time on set, we took a picture of me, Kathryn, Amy,Adam Scottand Rudd and we had this fantasy of being in like a Nineties,David Kelley-style procedural show calledPhilly Justicewhere we were all playing law clerks in Philadelphia,” Jones continued, naming the creator ofThe PracticeandL.A. Law.

(L-R) Rashida Jones as Ann Perkins and Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation.Colleen Hayes/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank

When theParks and Recwriters heard of the idea, they wrote up “an entire episode of a different show,” and Jones said that they “started to actually shoot” it.

“We became obsessed with it and so did the writers,” she admitted. “We shot 15 pages of a show that doesn’t exist with our free time.”

Schur discussed the spinoff idea in the past, saying at a PaleyFestpanelin 2012 that it all originated from a photo taken of Poehler, Scott, Hahn, Rudd and Jones on set one day.

“They were on set and they had someone take that picture and they decided to pretend that they were all on a show calledPhilly Justiceabout Philadelphia lawyers,” Schur said, going on to admit: “It’s difficult to explain to you how intricate this bit has gotten. These actors, these five people, got so into this idea that they had been in this fake show together.”

Parks and Recreationis streaming in full on Peacock.

source: people.com