A 'Community' Movie Is Coming To Peacock

Attention, students. After a prolonged campaign, Community fans will see their “six seasons and a movie” dreams come true, as NBC Universal announced that streaming service Peacock has ordered a Community feature film.

Peacock won the rights to the Community movie from original series creator Dan Harmon in a “highly competitive situation,” according to a press release, and will also stream the series non-exclusively. Harmon will write and executive produce the Community movie with Andrew Guest, who wrote on the show’s first two seasons and penned classic episodes like “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” and “A Fistful of Paintballs.” Community star Joel McHale will also serve as an executive producer on the film with Russ Krasnoff and Gary Foster. Sony Pictures Television and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, will serve as the studio.

The series was about a study group's misadventures at a Colorado community college. The film will reunite McHale's Jeff Winger with some of the members of said study group: Abed (Danny Pudi), Annie (Alison Brie), Britta (Gillian Jacobs), Ben (Ken Jeong), and Dean Pelton (Jim Rash). It's not clear if long-time series regulars Donald Glover who played Troy but left the series' fifth series, Yvette Brown who played Shirley but left at the end the fifth season or Chevy chase who played Pierce, who left during the fourth season. He was killed off during season 5. McHale tweeted that Glover and Brown were not mentioned, but McHale did mention them in an official release. Brown then positively quote tweeted McHale, writing “It's happening! Congrats, #Community fans! You guys did this!” 

The campaign for Community movie began back in 2014 near the end of the beloved comedy's run on NBC, with the hashtag #sixseasonsandamovie. Premiering in 2009, Community was a part of NBC's must see comedy lineup airing alongside The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation. In 2012, it won an Emmy for outstanding individual achievement in animation – comedy series. The entire cast of Community reunited in 2020 for a virtual table read to raise funds for coronavirus relief efforts.  

“‘Six seasons and a movie’ started out as a cheeky line from Community’s early seasons and quickly ignited a passionate fan movement for this iconic, hilarious and cool NBC comedy,” said Susan Rovner, Chairman, Entertainment Content, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. “We’re incredibly grateful that 15 years later, we are able to deliver fans this promised movie and can’t wait to get to work with Dan Harmon, Andrew Guest, Joel McHale, Sony and our partners at UTV to continue this epic comedy for Peacock audiences.”