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Joel McHale Explains the Future of "Community"
This quality is cool. Cool, cool, cool, to beryllium exact.
That's right, fulfilling the show's prophecy of "six seasons and a movie," Peacock announced Sept. 30 that it was making a Community film. The spinoff volition bring backmost overmuch of the show's archetypal stars, including Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Jim Rash and Ken Jeong, to cheque backmost successful with what the survey radical has been up to since the sitcom ended successful 2015.
McHale, who volition service arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the project, revealed the quality connected Twitter, simply sharing an representation that reads "...and a movie" and tagging the Community cast. Notably, helium besides included Donald Glover and Yvette Nicole Brown, who were not included successful Peacock's announcement. Does this mean we could beryllium getting a revival of Troy and Abed In the Morning?
The Greendale Human Beings are reuniting down the camera arsenic well, with creator Dan Harmon is backmost on board arsenic good arsenic writer and enforcement producer Andrew Guest.
Community is truthful beloved that the NBCUniversal described negotiations arsenic "highly competitive" successful the property merchandise (But possibly not as competitive arsenic a paintball war). As portion of the deal, Peacock volition besides person the streaming rights to the show's full library.
"'Six seasons and a movie' started retired arsenic a cheeky enactment from Community's early seasons and rapidly ignited a passionate instrumentality question for this iconic, hilarious and chill (cool, cool) NBC comedy," NBCUniversal exec Susan Rovner said. "We're incredibly grateful that 15 years later, we are capable to present fans this promised movie."
Community, which followed a survey radical astatine the fictional Greendale assemblage college, ran connected NBC for 5 seasons from 2009 to 2014 earlier hopping to Yahoo! for its sixth and last play successful 2015. Thanks to Pudi's Abed Nadir, who was obsessed with popular culture, the amusement was known for making intense film references and meta episodes—including its iconic "six seasons and a movie" joke, which Abed declared was the cleanable tally for immoderate tv show.
Also not included successful the movie line-up is Saturday Night Live alum Chevy Chase, who starred connected the amusement for the archetypal 4 seasons but departed in 2012 following an incidental successful which helium utilized a radical slur during an aggravated on-set rant.
No merchandise day for the movie has been announced yet, but successful the meantime, you tin drawback up on Community on Netflix and Hulu.
(NBC, Peacock and E! News are each portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
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