Fans get one more update on the community film from an original cast member

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The future Community the film has been building anticipation for its release even before the makers confirmed it, and now a fan favorite star has given fans an update on the project's progress after earlier reports of some delays.

Created and led by creative Dan Harmon, Community had a great six-season run between its premiere in 2009 and its final season which aired in 2014. It saw great success with its large ensemble central cast and mix of meta-humor and pop culture references, and spoke of a movie based on the show began to appear after the end of season five. After the series ended, Harmon and several cast members expressed serious interest in making a feature film Community project in tandem with fans eager for more content from that universe. Although there was a long period of time where fans had a hard time figuring out whether or not Community movie was actually happening, it would be confirmed to be greenlit by Harmon in 2021

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Despite confirmation that this is indeed happening, the project's progress hasn't exactly been without its bumps, including the recent WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes torpedoing plans to begin filming early. However, fans recently got a bit more news about the project, courtesy of Yvette Nicole Brown. Brown, who played Shirley Bennett on the show, recently gave an interview to TheWrap after her appearance on Masked singer and made some time to discuss the state of affairs concerning Community film. “I think it's being reworked, but we've all read a whole, complete script. So a scenario exists. I heard we have the big credit in LA that's giving you money to make the movie. So we're definitely going to do it in LA,” Brown revealed. “Right now I'm trying to put together all these puzzle pieces of everyone's schedule. We were scheduled to do it and then the strike happened,” Brown explained of the delays. “And now it's like trying to figure out when so-and-so ends their show? When does so and so end their movie? When is so and so off tour? It's all those things that we're trying to put together now, but it's going to happen. We're going to make the movie, and we all agree to make it.”

Brown also discussed the nature of the material she had already seen up to that point, praising it while reiterating that everything had undergone improvement during the reworking process. “It's the 'Community' script.” It's really funny, it's very irreverent, it's stupid. Many of them will probably change. You know, Dan Harmon is always — Dan Harmon and Andrew Guess are our writers, and they're always thinking and moving and incorporating things,” Brown noted. “And for a minute I wasn't confirmed, so now they have to change some things, because I'm confirmed, and now I can change some things for Shirley's character as well,” she continued. “So it's going to be really, really going to be a good time.” This creative process seems to mirror what Brown already experienced on set for the show, which received even more acclaim when it was announced that the series would be leaving Netflix earlier this year.

While any news is appreciated, the update isn't entirely heartening for fans considering that Community The stars have been noted as cleaning programs to begin filming in 2023. The script being reworked to any extent could mean longer and unspecified wait times until things start in earnest again. Fans will have to hang in there for a little while longer, but they can take solace in the fact that the show's cast is just as eager to come back for them. Once Harmon manages to come up with a version of the script that everyone is happy with, it won't take long from this point for things to solidify.

From the attitude recently shown by Brown and others in the past, it is clear that Joel McHale was right to call Community the movie is a dream come true for those who worked on the series, and the attitude is the same for the fans. Regardless of how long it takes to make it all work, there will be strong support for the community film when it finally hits screens, as long as Harmon and company bring the show's unique charm to this new medium.

Community is currently available to stream on Peacock.