Dan Harmon, the mastermind behind Community, has weighed in on the lingering question that has been on fans’ minds since the end of the show’s sixth season: Where’s the movie? Community’s long-running joke, #sixseasonsandamovie, became a battle cry for loyal fans after NBC canceled the show after five seasons, and when Yahoo Screen rescued it for a sixth, the hashtag dropped to just #andamovie. So when can we expect one? Not right away, Harmon told Larry King:
If I pull out a typewriter right now and write a Community movie, just for my own heart and mind, then I have to go through the heartbreak and agony of finding out which of the people are going to show up to make it. On the other hand, if I wait for everybody to line up and say we’re all out of work and ready to do a Community movie, well I guess that’s a bad idea too.
Even after it was confirmed that the show’s sixth season would be its last, Harmon declined to immediately start filming a Community movie, since many of the actors had already taken on other projects. But the cast is willing: Ken Jeong has said he’ll do “anything Community related” (even a seventh season), and while Joel McHale echoed Harmon’s desire for a movie to be more than just “a two-hour episode,” he jokingly pleaded with Netflix to put up the money for the project.
Gillian Jacobs says she’d love to. Danny Pudi is in. As for Harmon? “It’ll make a great movie. It’ll happen.” Cool cool cool.
