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More than two years have passed since US streaming service Peacock announced, in September 2022, that the sitcom’s promise of “six seasons and a movie” was definitely going to be fulfilled.
The Emmy-winning series ran for five seasons from 2009 to 2014 on NBC and for the final sixth season on Yahoo! Screen in 2015.
Series creator Dan Harmon is overseeing the film, and a majority of the cast are returning.
In a podcast appearance, McHale confirmed that a “script was written” for the film, but shooting was delayed by scheduling conflicts.
“So that is a, that’s when everyone’s like, is that going to happen? I was like, well, we got the money, which is one of the harder things to do. Yeah. And everyone’s in, so that is the other,” McHale told host Jesse Tyler Ferguson on the podcast Dinner’s On Me.
“It’s really coming down to schedules and a script was written. So all that is real. And I know that we have been talking about it for literally years, but it’s, it will happen and there’s just, you know, it’s just getting those schedules together.”
As to what fans could expect, McHale said he had read the script and would offer only one spoiler. “I am not going to tell you anything about it. I’ll just say, everybody dies.”
In March last year, McHale, who played the playboy protagonist Jeff Winger in Community and guest starred in another hit series, The Bear, said that he would be “shocked” if the film didn’t start shooting in 2024. However, in July he said his lack of availability meant the film still hadn’t begun shooting.
He had previously confirmed that Donald Glover would be returning as Troy for the film. “The fact that we even got Donald to do it,” he said, “that was the big piece.”
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He additionally mentioned that Yvette Nicole Brown, who performed Shirley Bennett, can be returning. “I believe everybody’s coming again. Up to now, we’re fairly good.”
Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Jim Rash, and Ken Jeong had been additionally confirmed to return.
Chevy Chase, who performed millionaire Pierce Hawthorne, will seemingly not be returning, with Harmon beforehand suggesting that it may not be “authorized for him to return again”.
Chase’s time on the present was riddled with behind-the-scenes controversy. The actor, 81, is reported to have left in the course of the fourth season after utilizing a racist slur on set.
Harmon instructed The New Yorker in 2018 that Chase would “make racial cracks between takes” to attempt to disrupt Glover’s scenes.
“Chevy was the primary to grasp how immensely gifted Donald was and the best way he expressed his jealousy was to attempt to throw Donald off,” Harmon instructed The New Yorker in 2018.
“I bear in mind apologising to Donald after a very tough night time of Chevy’s non-PC verbiage and Donald mentioned, ‘I don’t even fear about it.’”
In 2012, a supply instructed The Hollywood Reporter that Chase had “apologised instantly” after he used the N-word on set. The slur was not geared toward Glover or his Black co-star Yvette Nicole Brown, however used when Chase questioned dialogue in a scene with their characters, mentioned the supply.
In a subsequent interview on the WTF With Marc Maron podcast, Chase steered that his departure was on his personal phrases.
“I actually felt the present wasn’t humorous sufficient for me, in the end,” he mentioned.
“I felt somewhat bit constrained. Everyone had their bits, and I assumed they had been all good. It simply wasn’t hard-hitting sufficient for me.”
