Simply over two years in the past, Peacock officially ordered a Community movie primarily based upon the fan-favorite sitcom that ran for six seasons between 2009 and 2015. Since then, there’s been frustratingly little motion on the venture. Nonetheless, former forged member Ken Jeong — who performed Ben Chang for the present’s whole run — has seen the script for the movie, and he liked it.
“It made me emotional and simply introduced me proper again, and that’s all I’m legally allowed to say,” mentioned Jeong throughout an interview with TV Insider. “There’s a script, there’s a plan. We simply don’t know when [it will happen]. As soon as that’s agreed upon, it’ll be magical and actual emotional … I feel being on set experiencing that once more [will be] so gratifying. Phrases can’t even categorical.”
Rick and Morty‘s Dan Harmon created Neighborhood as a comedy centered on Joel McHale’s Jeff Winger, a disbarred lawyer who attended Greendale Neighborhood School alongside his examine group classmates as performed by Gillian Jacobs, Donald Glover, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, and Chevy Chase. Jim Rash performed Dean Craig Pelton, whereas Jeong’s Chang was a teacher-turned-frenemy for the examine group. Of the unique forged, solely Chase is predicted to be skipping the movie after he left the collection on the conclusion of season 4. Chase’s character, Pierce Hawthorne, was additionally used to elucidate the following departure of Glover’s Troy Barnes as he accepted a provision in Pierce’s will to sail all over the world. Glover didn’t return to the present after that, however he has signed on for the film.
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Glover, who can be an completed rapper underneath the Infantile Gambino stage identify, recently canceled his world tour to get better from an unspecified surgical procedure. On the time, Glover wrote, “My path to restoration is one thing I have to confront critically,” earlier than including that he wanted “day trip to heal.”
Final summer time, McHale took the blame for the Neighborhood film’s delay, which he attributed to his busy schedule, together with his dedication to Fox’s Animal Management. The Neighborhood film will nonetheless possible fulfill the “six seasons and a film” pledge if for no different purpose than it was awarded a lucrative tax credit from the state of California in September. For now, it doesn’t have a premiere window scheduled by Peacock.
