Donald Glover has been booked and busy, however these rumors about his schedule holding up manufacturing on Peacock‘s : The Film aren’t correct, in keeping with the multihyphenate.
“It’s occurring however I don’t know when. I swear, it’s occurring,” Glover informed Deadline earlier this week on the Deadline Studio at Prime Expertise in assist of his Prime Video collection Mr. and Mrs Smith. The video will be watched above.
When requested if it was his busy schedule holding up manufacturing, he mentioned whereas laughing, “Everyone is hating on me on the web and it’s not me! They’re like, ‘We all know that you just’re the rationale.’ Possibly I used to be final 12 months — possibly — however not this time.”
Created by Dan Harmon, Neighborhood, a comedy collection set at a group school in a fictional Colorodo city, ran for 110 episodes throughout six seasons between 2009-2015, first on NBC earlier than shifting to the now-defunct Yahoo! Display screen for its ultimate season. All through its run, it gained an Emmy, a Critics’ Selection Tv Award and different accolades. Peacock formally introduced the Neighborhood film in 2022, enlisting Harmon and Andrew Visitor to pen the script.
The streamer has largely remained mum on the venture’s standing, which was delayed on account of scheduling points with its many stars whose careers have skyrocketed because the present concluded, in addition to the twin WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. So with out something official coming down the pipeline, particulars have been offered drop by drop by the solid.
Joel McHale, who spoke to Deadline in March, revealed that the film will shoot “this 12 months” and that he’d be “shocked” if it doesn’t. “However I actually do suppose it’s occurring this 12 months, and possibly subsequent week. It’s principally working round Donald’s schedule,” he joked.
Neither Glover nor McHale admit to having learn Harmon’s script for Neighborhood: The Film, however Alison Brie has and he or she gave it her stamp of approval. “It’s so humorous,” she of the script. Beforehand, Glover mentioned the movie facilities on “a school reunion.” One-time Greendale Neighborhood Faculty movie pupil Abed Nadir, performed within the present by Danny Pudi, is now “this huge director,” and the Peacock pic we’ll watch is “his magnum opus.”
In a latest dialog with Ken Jeong, who performed Ben Chang within the collection, he was largely tight-lipped however supplied, “I’ve signed on for it, completely. We’re simply nonetheless on the lookout for the precise opening and the precise bandwidth to get the band collectively. I believe that’s all I’m legally allowed to say.”
Along with the entire above, the Neighborhood conclusion can even star collection originals Gillian Jacobs, Jim Rash and Yvette Nicole Brown.
