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Threat level midnight full movie Continue Michael Scorn's Threat Level Midnight Office fans of the world have long wanted to see Michael Scott's action movie, The Threat Level Midnight, in his gloriously campy whole. Consider this an early holiday treat, the way the team behind the show has just released the full official version. Watch it below. As The Complex reminds us, the idea for an action film was first introduced in Season 2 when Pam (Jenna Fisher) came across a script for a spy film written by her boss, Scott (Steve Carell). Viewers eventually got a peek into a few scenes in Season 7 when colleagues screened the film. However, so far, a full short can only be a scene as a bonus feature included in the season 7 DVD. In Threat Level Midnight, Scott plays a super spy named Michael Scarn who goes undercover as a hockey player to save the evil Goldenface (played by Jim, a.g. John Krasinski) from destroying the NHL All-Star Game. The challenge appears to have hit a free heartstring for Scarn as his wife Catherine zeta-Scarn was killed during the WNBA All-Star Game. See how he's up to the task, and see where all the other members of the Office cast fit into the story below. In the news, NBC will voice the Office reboot as a target for its upcoming streaming service Peacock. The platform will also be home to the show's original nine seasons once they leave Netflix in 2021. A similar 17th episode of the seventh season of The OfficeThreat Level MidnightThe Office episodeThe poster for Threat Level Midnight. Michael Gallenberg, the series' designer, created the poster in his time without answering a question. Episode No. Season 7Episode 17Directo Potker GatesSWrittenB. J. NovakFeatured Music Running on Ice Billy Joel Pressure Billy Joel Cinematography byMatt SohnEditing by David Rogers Claire Scanlon Production code7016 2011Disceable appearance (s) David Denman, as Roy Anderson Melora Hardin as Ian Levinson Rashida Jones as Karen Filippelli David Koechner as Todd Packer Linda Purl as Helen Beasley Mike Bruner as Tony Gardner Noel Petok as Troy Underbridge Episode chronology ← Previous PDA Next →Todd Packer Office (American Season 7) Office the seventeenth episode of the seventh season of the American comedy television series Office, and the 143rd episode of the show as a whole. It premiered on NBC on February 17, 2011. The episode was written by B.J. Novak and directed by Tucker Gates. The series depicts the daily life of office workers in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin paper company. In this episode, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) screens his action movie Threat level midnight in office after a decade of writing, shooting, shooting and editing. In this film, Michael as Agent Michael Scarn, Shruth (Rainn Wilson) is Scarn's robot butler, and Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) is the archnemeza of Scarn's Golden Face. The genesis of the episode stems from the second season of The Client Entry, in which the office discovers Michael's incomplete script for a level-midnight threat. The episode features the appearance of several actors and actresses who have not appeared on the show for years. Because of the nature of Michael's film, the scenes were filmed to create the illusion that they were filmed years before the episode. Threat Level Midnight was watched by 6.41 million viewers and received 3.3 ratings among adults between the ages of 18 and 49. The episode was the highest-rated NBC series of the week that it aired, and received critical acclaim, many of which enjoyed humor and continuity references to past shows. In December 2019, the entire film (25 minutes without episodes) was published on The Office YouTube channel. Synopsis by Michael Scott (Steve Carell) screens his action movie Threat level midnight in office after eleven years of writing, shooting, shooting and editing. The characters in the film are played by people who have either worked at the Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch in the last decade or those with whom Michael has communicated in the last few years. Narrated by Stanley Hudson, the plot for the film is this. After the secret agent Michael Scarn (played by Michael) is forced to resign over the death of his wife Catherine zeta-Scarn at the hands of Goldenface (played by Jim Halpert), the president of the United States of America (played by Darryl Philbin) asks not to let Goldenface blow up the NHL All-Star Game and kill several hostages. Scarn goes undercover and learns to play hockey from the famous Cherokee Jack instructor (played by Creed Bratton), killing another hockey player (played by Oscar Martinez) to get into the game. His robot butler Samuel (played by Dwight Schruth) intercepts the name of Agent Goldenface, the nightclub singer Jasmine Windsong (played by Ian Levinson). He learns the whereabouts of the hostages through a coded message from Windsong shortly before she was killed by one of Goldenface's killers. Scarn and Samuel confront Goldenface to try to rescue the hostages, and Goldenface shows them that the bomb is in the hockey puck. Scarn refuses to forgive Goldenface for the murder of his wife, and he was shot. Later he recovers, but when he and Samuel bring their information to the president, they are making sure that the president was in it all this time, wanting to blow up the stadium for insurance money. Oppressed, he goes to the bar to drown his sorrows. Led by bartender Billy (played by Andy Bernard), bar patrons sing a song called The Scarn, which he danced with his wife, who admires Scarn immensely. With his self-confidence restored, Scarn penetrates the game, also learn from Samuel that Cherokee Jack had died. While Samuel rescues the hostages, Scarn is instructed by the ghost of Cherokee Jack and is able to pull the puck out of the stadium, saving the day, restoring Billy's companion and exploding in the process Golden Face. Scarn resigns again, but is immediately called back into action by the president, and the narrator, as it turns out, is an elderly Scarn. Michael showed the office work in the process of shortening the film years ago, but the staff all mistook it for comedy, and Michael was so offended by their laughter that he closed the screening. Everyone really wants to see Michael's film, albeit only because they all appear in it, and Pam Halpert (Jenna Fisher) warns everyone to remember how sensitive Michael is, not laugh. However, Pam is unable to resist screaming in horror when she sees her mother cast in the film as a scantily clad nurse, and Jim (John Krasinski) fails to completely suppress his laughter on the Scarn stage, so Michael angrily stops the film and picks it up. Michael asks Holly Flax (Amy Ryan) what she thought and she doesn't seem impressed. Michael is angry with her because he considers the film his dream and then offers the rest of the office the opportunity to finish watching the film, which they are happy to accept. While watching, Michael starts to replace as the film isn't really very good; he goes outside and tells Holly that it's a bad movie, but also one that people have fun watching. They sit down and laugh with the rest of the office through the conclusion of the film, especially at finding Michael with an actual hockey game and plot-hole at the end. The Production Writing and Casting Episode was written by B.J. Novak (left) in the mornings of outgoing series star Steve Carell (right). This episode was written by executive producer B.J. Novak, who also plays Ryan Howard on the show. The film was directed by Tucker Gates, the fourth director of the series. Michael's screenplay for Threat Level Midnight was the subject of the second season of The Client and was later used in Email Surveillance, Product Recall, Money, Dinner Party and Prince Family Paper. The idea for the episode came from the show's star Steve Carell, who left the show at the end of the season. He said he liked the idea of the Threat Level Midnight script and wanted to make a story focused on it. Rashida Jones, who portrayed Karen Phillipelli, noted that it felt like a time strain to be asked to re-appear on the show. Ian Levinson, Michael's former boss and lover, played by Melora Hardin, has reappeared in Ian-as-Diva. Tony Gardner, played by Mike Bruner, cameos as a pianist. Novak justified this by saying that despite Having been fired on his first day, the character may have appeared in the film because he was intrigued and flattered that Michael-after an apology abundantly asked him, or that he may have been single. Andy Buckley, who portrayed David Wallace, Dander Mifflin's former cfo, was originally announced as a guest star for the episode, and his character was due to take part in Michael's film. When NBC first aired, Wallace's scenes were not shown. Novak revealed that in the script Wallace was Michael's first choice as Goldenface, but refused because it wouldn't have looked good for the people at the Corporation. Buckley also filmed an interview with a talking head in which his character exclaims that he regrets not taking on the role. This scene was removed due to lack of time. The scene does not appear on the 7th season DVD. The script also had a scene that brought back Amy Adams's character Katie, but it was cut because Adams was working on the film during which episode was filmed.