Joel McHale Says COMMUNITY Movie Will Shoot This Year; Peacock Is Working Around Donald Glover's Schedule

We are finally in the year that Community: The Movie will be heading back to the set of Greendale Community College to shoot the film that has been a long time coming. Star Joel McHale told Deadline this week that the script is written, and while he hasn’t yet read it himself, he’s more than happy to share some story details.

“We go to the center of the earth,” he joked. “It’s like the movie The Core.” McHale’s co-star, Donald Glover recently revealed that the film centers on “a college reunion.” One-time Greendale Community College film student Abed Nadir, played by Danny Pudi, is now “this big director,” and the Peacock pic we’ll watch is “his magnum opus.”

In all seriousness, McHale said, it’s his belief that the Community movie will shoot “this year.” He’ll be “shocked,” he said, if it doesn’t. “But I really do think it’s happening this year, and probably next week. It’s basically working around Donald’s schedule.”

Peacock officially announced the Community movie back in 2022, enlisting the show’s creator, Dan Harmon and Andrew Guest to pen the script. McHale said during a January 2023 interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that it was to begin shooting in June of last year, though those plans fell through in a double strike summer.

In addition to McHale, cast members set to return for the movie include Pudi, Glover, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Jim Rash, Ken Jeong, and Yvette Nicole Brown.