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 instructed Deadline earlier this week on the Deadline Studio at Prime Expertise in assist of his Prime TV collection Mr. and Mrs Smith. The video will be watched above.
When requested if it was his busy schedule holding up manufacturing, he stated whereas laughing, “Everyone is hating on me on the web and it’s not me! They’re like, ‘We all know that you simply’re the explanation.’ Perhaps I used to be final 12 months— perhaps— however not this time.”
Created by Dan Harmon, Neighborhood, a comedy collection set at a Neighborhood School in a fictional Colorodao city, ran for 110 episodes throughout six seasons, between 2009 and 2015, originating on NBC earlier than shifting over to the now-defunct Yahoo! Display screen for its ultimate run. All through its run, it notably gained an Emmy, a Critics’ Selection Tv Award, and different accolades. Peacock formally introduced the Neighborhood film again in 2022, enlisting Harmon and Andrew Visitor to pen the script.
And whereas the streamer has largely remained mum concerning the undertaking’s standing, which was delayed attributable to scheduling points with its many stars whose careers have skyrocketed because the present concluded in 2015, in addition to the twin WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. So till something official coming down the pipeline has been offered drop by drop by expertise.
Like Joel McHale, who spoke to Deadline in March revealed that the Neighborhood 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 stated the movie facilities on “a university reunion.” One-time Greendale Neighborhood School movie scholar Abed Nadir, performed by Danny Pudi, is now “this huge director,” and the Peacock pic we’ll watch is “his magnum opus.”
In a latest dialog with Neighborhood star Ken Jeong, who performed Ben Chang within the NBC collection, he was largely tight-lipped however provided, “I’ve signed on for it, completely. We’re simply nonetheless searching for the fitting opening and the fitting bandwidth to get the band collectively. I feel that’s all I’m legally allowed to say.”
Along with the entire above, the Neighborhood conclusion can even star Gillian Jacobs, Jim Rash and Yvette Nicole Brown.