{"id":519795,"date":"2026-03-05T07:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519795\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:20:09","slug":"community-movie-writer-explains-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519795\/","title":{"rendered":"“Community” Movie Writer Explains Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Universal Television. Courtesy of Alamy.<\/p>\n

Back in late 2022, Peacock announced a movie based on the beloved sitcom \u201cCommunity\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Filming was scheduled to begin in mid-2023, but the writers\u2019 and actors\u2019 strikes halted everything. The pause, however, did help Harmon and co-writer Andrew Guest work out how to get the script into better shape.<\/p>\n

The last update came two years ago, Glover saying he\u2019d been texting with the creatives involved and was waiting on the script, which was \u2018done\u2019. Since then, however, there\u2019s been essentially nothing.<\/p>\n

Guest, who also served as showrunner on acclaimed Marvel series \u201cWonder Man,\u201d has now offered an update explaining why things are taking so long with the \u201cCommunity\u201d movie. Appearing on The Ringer podcast The Watch<\/a>, he says:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got very close to shooting that, as the writers\u2019 strikes and actors\u2019 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\u2019 projects sort of came into conflict in terms of timing.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to single that person out because people will shame them, you know, the Community fan base\u2026 do not be upset with any of these people. It\u2019s hard because they\u2019re all incredibly talented and very busy.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t want to do sort of an \u2018Arrested Development\u2019 Netflix season where we\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harmon himself is busy overseeing both \u201cRick & Morty\u201d and \u201cKrapopolis,\u201d with a \u2018Morty\u2019 spin-off \u201cPresident Curtis\u201d also in the works for later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Television. Courtesy of Alamy. Back in late 2022, Peacock announced a movie based on the beloved sitcom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,142132,134],"class_list":["post-519795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}