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Community: Joel McHale Sounds Relieved to Have Donald Glover Back

During an Emmys red carpet interview, Community star Joel McHale sounded happy and relieved to have Donald Glover back for the film.

Our last two updates on how things were looking with Peacock's Dan Harmon & Andrew Guest-written, Joel McHale (Jeff), Gillian Jacobs (Britta), Danny Pudi (Abed), Alison Brie (Annie), Ken Jeong (Ben Chang), Jim Rash (Craig Pelton), and Donald Glover (Troy Barnes)-starring (we're still keeping our Yvette Nicole Brown candle burning) Community: The Movie were interesting ones. On one hand, we had Harmon offering some really promising updates post-SAG-AFTRA & WGA strikes – while on the other hand, we had McHale sharing the story of William Shatner's one-sided beef with him. But for this go-around, we have McHale offering some intel during Monday night's Emmy Awards. Speaking with E! News, McHale and E! red carpet host Heather McMahan had a great back-and-forth exchange before McMahan asked about the movie. If there was any doubt that Glover was on board, McHale took care of that – sounding happy about that while dropping a joke about how they're paying him "$56 million" to do it.

Community: Dan Harmon Talks Movie

Speaking with The Associated Press back in November 2023, Harmon offered a very promising update on how the Community film script for the movie is looking now compared to where things stood ahead of the SAG-AFTRA & WGA strikes. "We had a draft of the script that was theoretically ready to go. I don't think creatively it was all the way there, which is why I was starting to panic about us being scheduled to start shooting, and then the strike happened," Harmon shared. And while there's not a whole lot of positives to be taken out of the strikes, Harmon revealed that the pause gave them a better sense of "clarity" on how to approach the story.

"I do think it was a huge blessing for this particular project because it shut everything down long enough for us to, when we got back to rewriting that script, which were almost through the process of now, we had such so much more clarity than if we had been taking that thing to the set and starting to shoot it," Harmon explained. "So, I'm really excited about it."

And for what Harmon was able to share about the script, fans have every reason to believe that the wait will be more than worth it. "We've come upon the right story in the right format of the movie, and it's going to be great. It's going to be something to be really proud of," Harmon shared. "And it's designed absolutely backward from the goal of letting everybody new and old fans just feel like things are complete unless they see the movie and want to reboot the series."

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