Community Movie Officially Confirmed, Will Stream On Peacock
After several years of calling on Community to fulfill the promise of «six seasons and a movie,» creator Dan Harmon and the cast of the acclaimed NBC comedy series are reuniting for a Peacock movie.
Community centered on an ensemble cast of characters who attend a community college in the fictional town of Greendale, with meta-humor and pop culture references used to pay homage to various tropes and cliches in film and TV. Though the critically praised series was ultimately canceled after six seasons in 2015, the idea of a Community movie persisted as recently as the summer of 2022.
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Now, Peacock has greenlit an official Community movie after securing the rights from Harmon in a bidding war with other platforms. The Hollywood Reporter notes that series stars Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Jim Rash, and Ken Jeong are set to reprise their roles in the Community movie. However, Donald Glover, Chevy Chase, and Yvette Nicole Brown are not attached to the movie at this time and Peacock representatives reportedly declined to comment on whether negotiations would take place to bring them on board. That said, Harmon himself will pen the Community movie screenplay with Andrew Guest, the latter of whom penned multiple episodes of the series. Harmon and Guest will serve as executive producers alongside McHale, Russ Krasnoff and Gary Foster.
The long-awaited Community movie will be a co-production between Sony 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 (cool, cool) NBC comedy,” said Susan Rovner,
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