After being mentioned for round a decade, the film is coming a lot nearer to being a actuality, in accordance with star Joel McHale.
In an interview with Deadline at the moment, in help of his Fox sitcom Animal Control, returning for its second season March 6, McHale first pointed to current feedback by co-star Donald Glover in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, confirming that “the script’s done.”
McHale stated that whereas he hasn’t but learn the script himself, he’s more than pleased to share some story particulars. “We go to the center of the earth,” he joked. “It’s like the movie The Core.” (In an interview with our sister publication, The Hollywood Reporter, Glover revealed that the movie facilities on “a college reunion.” One-time Greendale Community College movie scholar Abed Nadir, performed by Danny Pudi, is now “this big director,” and the Peacock pic we’ll watch is “his magnum opus.”)
In all seriousness, McHale stated, it’s his perception that the Community film will shoot “this year.” He’ll be “shocked,” he stated, if it doesn’t. “But I really do think it’s happening this year, and probably next week. It’s basically working around Donald’s schedule.”
In dialog with Deadline on the Fox lot, McHale additionally known as his Animal Control solid “one of the funniest groups of people I’ve been around” — in distinction to the Community group, who he joked “were just a bunch of hacks.”
While one in all his outdated co-stars, Ken Jeong, seems on Animal Control this season as a canine whisperer, McHale joked that he, too, is “a hack and cannot act or tell jokes,” happening to assert that “he’s not funny, not successful, and I have carried him for years. Everyone thinks I’m joking, but it’s true.”
Of course, in actuality, McHale stated, Jeong’s episodes had been coming in too lengthy as a result of he did “so much funny stuff…He was really way too f***ing funny, and it really pissed me off.”
Created by Dan Harmon, Community ran for 110 episodes throughout six seasons, between 2009 and 2015, originating on NBC earlier than transferring over to the now-defunct Yahoo! Screen for its last run. Watching as McHale’s suspended lawyer befriends a bunch of eccentrics after being enforced to enroll in neighborhood school, the present was not all the time a rankings juggernaut, although it has maintained a really loyal fan following all through all these years. Over the course of its run, it additionally notably gained an an Emmy, a Critics’ Choice Television Award, and different accolades.
Peacock formally introduced the Community film again in 2022, enlisting Harmon and Andrew Guest to pen the script. McHale stated throughout a January 2023 interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that it was to start capturing in June of final 12 months, although these plans fell by means of in a double strike summer time.
In addition to McHale, solid members set to return for the film embrace Pudi, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Jim Rash, Jeong, Yvette Nicole Brown, and Glover.
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