The Community movie keeps getting closer to becoming a reality. During a recent appearance at the Saturn Awards, Joel McHale teased the project some more and he sounds as excited as anyone about it. The project will make good on the promise of “Six seasons and a movie” while bringing back (most) of the original cast, which is probably one of the reasons the usually sarcastic actor got a little emotional the last time they all got together.
“We did that table read during the pandemic and I cried like a baby afterwards and I’m not joking,” McHale told The Wrap before gushing about seeing the old crew:
“Everyone thinks that what I say is joking, but it is like being with — it really is like a family reunion but without a-holes,” he continued. “Because you know, you go to a family [reunion] and you’re like, ‘Ugh, there’s that one cousin of mine. He smells.’ So anyway, we’re really — I can’t wait. Yeah, that’s all I can say.”
As for which members of the cast won’t be returning for the Community movie, Dan Harmon dropped some surprising news on that front. While joking to a New York Comic Con crowd that he doesn’t even know if it’s “legal” for Chevy Chase to come back — or that Chase even would return after being ousted from the show — Harmon revealed that Donald Glover making an appearance is in the mix despite Glover’s busy schedule.
“It would be difficult to really commit to doing this thing without Donald,” Harmon told the NYCC crowd. “So I believe he is coming back.”
This post has been updated to reflect that McHale cried during the pandemic table read, not the one for the new movie, which he could not have cried during because it has not happened yet. We got a little excited here and we apologize for the confusion.
(Via The Wrap)
