How much longer will theCommunitymovie be deferred?
It's been a decade since the NBC sitcom concluded its six-season run with the promise of "#andamovie" flashing on screen at the end of the series finale.
In a2024 interviewwith Deadline, two years afterPeacock greenlit the long-awaited project, series starJoel McHaleteased: "I really do think it's happening this year, and probably next week."
At the time, he cited "working around"Donald Glover's busy schedule as reason for possible delay, whichGlover deniedand McHale recanted.
Two years later, theCommunitymovie remains at a standstill. So what happened?
"We got very close to shooting that,"Communitywriter Andrew Guest revealed on the Feb. 26 episode ofThe Watchpodcast. "As the writers' strikes and actors' 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' projects sort of came in conflict in terms of timing."
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Although other television shows, likeArrested Development's 2013 season on Netflix, have managed scheduling conflicts by filming scenes with actors separately, Guest insists that won't work forCommunity.
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"The fun and energy of that show is the chemistry between these people in the same room, around a table," he toldThe Watch's Andy Greenwald. "So we have to have them all in the same place at the same time."
However, that wasn't always the case onCommunity. Behind-the-scenes drama withChevy Chaseresulted in theSaturday Night Livealum shooting separately from the rest of the cast before he left the show in 2013.
"There was some of that done with one particular actor occasionally," Guest admitted with a laugh. "But the rest of the cast are delightful, all get along great, and we want them in the same place."
Check outThe Watch's full interview with Andrew Guest below.
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