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Community: The Movie proceeding

Nearly a decade on, fan favourite sitcom is formally given the greenlight to resume for a film.

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Community: The Movie has been formally commissioned by NBCU streaming service Peacock.

The film from creator Dan Harmon will feature original series stars Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Jim Rash and Ken Jeong.

McHale returns as Jeff Winger, Jacobs plays Britta Perry, Pudi is Abed Nadir, Brie as Annie Edison, Rash as Craig Pelton, and Jeong as Ben Chang.

Community, which was set in a community college in Colorado, ran for five seasons at NBC from 2009 before moving to Yahoo! Screen for its final season in 2015.

There’s no sign of Chevy Chase, who starred in the first four seasons but left after frequent conflicts with Harmon following a Season 5 cameo, Donald Glover, who starred in the first five seasons, and Yvette Nicole Brown, who also starred in the first five seasons, are also not returning.

Harmon and Andrew Guest will write and exec produce while McHale, Russ Krasnoff and Gary Foster will executive produce the movie, which comes from Sony Pictures Television and Universal Television.

“’Six seasons and a movie’ started out as a cheeky line from Community’s early seasons and quickly ignited a passionate fan movement for this iconic, hilarious and cool NBC comedy,” said Susan Rovner, Chairman, Entertainment Content, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. “We’re incredibly grateful that 15 years later, we are able to deliver fans this promised movie and can’t wait to get to work with Dan Harmon, Andrew Guest, Joel McHale, Sony and our partners at UTV to continue this epic comedy for Peacock audiences.”

“Community was light years ahead of its time when it premiered on NBC in 2009 and we are thrilled to once again visit the brilliant minds of Dan Harmon, Andrew Guest and this impeccable cast. We are grateful to Peacock, our partners at UTV and to all the zealous fans who have cherished this iconic show,” said Jason Clodfelter, Co-President, Sony Pictures Television Studios.

An Australian broadcaster is yet to be confirmed.

Source: Deadline

4 Responses

  1. Love Community and do a rewatch almost every year.

    Hopefully, they don’t Britta this. After the rollercoaster of, “will it be renewed” for 6 years. The finale was perfect.

  2. Surprising, positive news indeed. I’m a bit apprehensive however if they can’t bring back the full ensemble – Donald, Yvette, even Chevy all helped to make the cast as good as it was.

    1. Chevy was killed off as a character-one assumes the others have something else to do-given the unevenness of the last season and the length of time since it ended, you’d have to be concerned about the plot that’s supposed to bring them all back together.

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