A Community movie has finally been confirmed.
While the quote "six seasons and a movie" has been ever-popular with the show's fanbase over the years, there was never anything to back it up – until now.
Streaming service Peacock has ordered Community: The Movie, which will be overseen by original creator Dan Harmon, with a number of the show's stars returning.
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They include Joel McHale (Jeff Winger), Gillian Jacobs (Britta Perry), Danny Pudi (Abed Nadir), Alison Brie (Annie Edison), Jim Rash (Craig Pelton) and Ken Jeong (Ben Chang).
However, Donald Glover (Troy Barnes) and Yvette Nicole Brown (Shirley Bennett) won't be back, according to Deadline, while Chevy Chase (Pierce Hawthorne) also doesn't appear to be returning.
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Harmon, who has gone on to co-create hit animation Rick and Morty since Community began in 2009, will co-write the movie's script alongside Andrew Guest.
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Back in August, Harmon said a Community movie was "a matter of 'when'", telling Newsweek: "I have been so careful about [saying] that. It would have been accurate three years ago to say 'it's a matter of when, not if'. The wheels have been in motion for that long.
"The fan that Instagrams every day about Community, how can you tell them, 'yes, it's definitely going to happen, but it may be between one and eight years from now'?" he added. "Which is how the industry works, especially when you factor in pandemics and whatnot.
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"How about this for a concrete thing? There is an outline for it. There's a product put together and pitched out in the world. I guess that's how real it is.
"That's probably enough that'll make people mad when [there's nothing] a year from now. It still doesn't mean there's going to be a movie tomorrow. It means there is definitely going to be one."
Community: The Movie will stream on Peacock in the US.
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