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Community Movie "Gonna Happen Soon": Donald Glover Has Some Good News
We think Community fans are going to like what Donald Glover had to share regarding work on Peacock's upcoming Community: The Movie.
Article Summary
- Donald Glover confirms progress on Community: The Movie and teases that it will happen soon.
- The cast, including Joel McHale and others, are eager and actively coordinating schedules to film together.
- Writers and producers emphasize the importance of the cast's real-life chemistry for the movie's success.
- Scheduling challenges remain, but optimism is growing for filming to begin in the near future.
Who's in the mood for some good news regarding Peacock's Dan Harmon & Andrew Guest-penned, Donald Glover (Troy), Ken Jeong (Ben Chang), Yvette Nicole Brown (Shirley), Joel McHale (Jeff), Gillian Jacobs (Britta), Danny Pudi (Abed), Alison Brie (Annie), and Jim Rash (Dean Pelton)-starring Community: The Movie? After rumblings over the past few weeks that the pieces were starting to come into place (more on that below), Glover had a very exciting update to share with Entertainment Tonight while promoting The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

"We're working on it right now," Glover shared. "I know everybody's been saying that for forever, but I swear to you, I'm not lying about this. I really think that something is gonna happen soon." In fact, Glover added that he and his co-stars "were just on the text chain talking about it" before the event. "It's pretty lovey dovey, but when you're on the other side of the world, you will wake up to 83 messages," Glover shared about the chat group.
Checking in with The Watch podcast near the end of February, Guest shared just how close the project was to filming shortly after the end of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023. "We got very close to shooting that. As the writers' strikes and actors' strikes were ending, 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," Guest shared with host Andy Greenwald. But as we've previously heard from members of the cast, it's difficult to get that many talented people's schedules to line up.
As for the suggestion by some that the cast could be filmed at different times and the scenes edited together later, Guest explained why that would dishonor one of the main reasons fans have loved and remained devoted to the series for so long. "The fun and energy of that show is the chemistry between these people in the same room, around a table," Guest noted, adding, "So we have to have them all in the same place at the same time."
While speaking with ET's Brice Sander to talk up the third season of Peacock's House of Villains, McHale also had some good news to share near the top of the interview. After joking that it would be the first of a trilogy (he really was joking), McHale perked up and seemed quite happy and optimistic when he shared that it looks like there are some windows this year that would make everyone available for filming. In fact, McHale was so happy that it sounded like he offered Chevy Chase a legit invite to be a part of House of Villains Season 3 (if there is one):











