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Back in late 2022, Peacock announced a movie based on the beloved sitcom “Community” was in the works, with the film to reunite cast members like Joel McHale, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Jim Rash and Ken Jeong, along with original series creator Dan Harmon.
Filming was scheduled to begin in mid-2023, but the writers’ and actors’ strikes halted everything. The pause, however, did help Harmon and co-writer Andrew Guest work out how to get the script into better shape.
The last update came two years ago, Glover saying he’d been texting with the creatives involved and was waiting on the script, which was ‘done’. Since then, however, there’s been essentially nothing.
Guest, who also served as showrunner on acclaimed Marvel series “Wonder Man,” has now offered an update explaining why things are taking so long with the “Community” movie. Appearing on The Ringer podcast The Watch, he says:
“We got very close to shooting that, as the writers’ strikes and actors’ strikes were ending [in 2023], all of our cast were available. All of them wanted to do it. We had a line producer. We had a script that we were in the process of starting to rewrite, and one of our actors’ projects sort of came into conflict in terms of timing.
I don’t want to single that person out because people will shame them, you know, the Community fan base… do not be upset with any of these people. It’s hard because they’re all incredibly talented and very busy.
We don’t want to do sort of an ‘Arrested Development’ Netflix season where we’re shooting some people in part. The fun and energy of that show is the chemistry between these people in the same room, around a table. So we have to have them all in the same place at the same time.”
Harmon himself is busy overseeing both “Rick & Morty” and “Krapopolis,” with a ‘Morty’ spin-off “President Curtis” also in the works for later this year.
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