According to Deadline, a Community film is in the works despite script rewrites and delays.
Yvette Nicole Brown (Drake & Josh, Victorious) confirmed in an interview for The Wrap that “it’s going to happen,” but fans will have to wait even longer due to a script rewrite. In the original script, Brown’s character Shirley Bennet, who is an entrepreneur and mother, was not written. However, she decided to join the cast in 2022 and return to the role of her character.
Her interview was held after her co-star Joel McHale (Spy Kids: All The Time in the World, The Bear) announced to fans he is responsible for the delay of the movie due to his schedule. Fans rumored the busy life of Donald Glover (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Lion King) was the production’s hold up.
“I think it’s being reworked, but we all have read an entire, full script. So a script exists. I heard that we have the big credit in LA that gives you money to make the film. So we’re definitely going to be doing it in LA,” Brown stated in her interview.
Brown explains in The Wrap interview “For a minute, I wasn’t confirmed, so they have to now change some things, because I am confirmed, and they can now change some things for for Shirley’s character as well. So it’s going to be really, it’s going to be a good time.”
“It’s just now trying to get all these puzzle pieces together of everybody’s schedule,” she continued. “We were scheduled to do it, and then the strike happened. And now it’s like trying to figure out when is so-and-so done with their show? When is so-and-so done with their movie? When is so-and-so off tour? It’s all of those things that we’re trying to get together now, but it’s going to happen. We are going to do the movie, and we’re all on board to do it.”
Community ran from 2009 to 2015 for six seasons, streaming on NBC. Showrunner Dan Harmon (Monster House, Rick and Morty) enclosed the highly-anticipated movie with previous show writer Andrew Guest (30 Rock, Brooklyn Nine-Nine).
“A lot of it’s probably going to change,” Brown, mentioned observing that the script is “really funny, it’s very irreverent, it’s silly,” but Guest and Harmon are “always thinking and moving and incorporating things.”
Community: The Movie was announced last month as one of nineteen works that will be granted $51.6 million from California’s film and television tax credits program.