Dan Harmon, creator of the hit TV sitcom Community, which has just completed six season, has been speaking to the US website Collider about plans for a film version. The show, which features heavy use of meta-humor and pop culture references, developed a cult following after its initial run in 2009, and forever stood by the mantra “six seasons and a movie”, a line from the second season episode “Paradigms of Human Memory”.
So, six seasons are done. What about that movie?
“If I pull out a typewriter right now and write a Community movie just from my own mind, then I have to go through the heartbreak and agony of finding out which of the people are going to show up to make it,” Harmon said. “Whereas, on the other hand, if I wait for everybody to line up and say, ‘We’re all out of work and ready to do a Community movie!’ well, I guess that’s a bad idea too.”
“It’ll make a great movie. It’ll happen. ”
The show starred Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Ken Jeong, Chevy Chase, and Jim Rash, and will be much-missed. Here’s a little more about the plot.
When fast-talking lawyer Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) finds his degree has been revoked, he is forced to go back to school at Greendale Community College. Hoping to score points with a pretty coed, he invents a study group and invites her to join it. Imagine his surprise when she’s not the only one who shows up for help with Spanish from the “board-certified tutor” he proclaims himself to be. Though his command of the language is anything but good, the members continue to meet and end up learning a lot about themselves.
All six seasons can be found on the home markets, and on Netflix in some territories.
More on that Community movie as it comes in.
