By At last report back in early October, the seemingly certain “Community” movie seemed less assured after creator Dan Harmon indicated the WGA and SAG strikes had an impact.
At the time he confirmed he was able to get commitments from every cast member (except Chevy Chase) and managed to get everyone’s schedules to sync up so they could all film together.
Then delays due to the strikes happened and getting schedules to align once again will be tricky. The plan was to shoot the film in Atlanta to ensure co-star Donald Glover could be there.
Today, Harmon seems more upbeat. Speaking with the Associated Press, he says the strike may have actually helped the project because it forced them to get the script into the kind of fighting shape it wasn’t in prior to the strikes commencing:
“[Before the strikes] we had a draft of a script that was theoretically ready to go. I don’t think creatively it was all the way there, which is why I was starting to panic about us being scheduled to start shooting.
Then the [writers] strike happened. I do think it was a huge blessing for this particular project because it shut everything down long enough for us to … When we got back to rewriting that script, which we’re almost through the process of now, we had so much more clarity than if we had been taking that thing to the set [in June] and starting to shoot it.
We’ve come upon the right story in the right format of the movie. It’s going to be great. It’s going to be something to be really proud of.”
In terms of the overall strategy with the film, he says the project has been designed “absolutely backwards from the goal of letting everybody, new and old fans, just feel like things are complete.” Andrew Guest, who penned some of the show’s most beloved episodes, serves as a co-writer on the film.
Whenever it does premiere, the “Community” film is expected to debut on Peacock.
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