Greendale Community College Is Hopefully Restarting Classes Soon

When will the prophecy be fulfilled? The Community movie hasn’t started filming yet, but Yvette Nicole Brown confirms she’s reprising her role as Shirley Bennett, so surely a movie is happening soon, right?

March 4, 2024: Calling all Greendale human beings for an important announcement: School will be in session soonish. How soon? Leader of the study group Joel McHale told Deadline he’s confident that production for the Community movie will happen after a delay due to the writers and actors strikes last year. “I really do think it’s happening this year, and probably next week. It’s basically working around Donald [Glover]’s schedule.” While McHale hasn’t had a chance to read the script yet, Glover has some idea on what the movie will be about and spilled the beans on his BFF Abed Nadir, played by Danny Pudi. He told The Hollywood Reporter last month, “Yeah, [Dan Harmon] told me what he wanted [for the script], and I was like, ‘This sounds great.’ It’s a college reunion, but Abed is like this big director now, and basically this is his magnum opus. I’m like, ‘This sounds fucking tight.’” Is Abed shooting his masterpiece in Imax? If Britta is still the main investor, the answer is probably yes.

May 10, 2024: Stop saying he’s different! Donald Glover is denying that he’s too busy to get together with his fellow Greendale alums. He told Deadline that the Community movie is definitely still happening (“I swear”), and added that his schedule is not the reason for the holdup. “Everybody’s hating on me on the internet for this,” he said. “Maybe I was last year, maybe, but not this time.” As for a script? Glover hasn’t gotten one yet, but said that he thinks Dan Harmon is working on it. That’s interesting, because Alison Brie said on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live in April that she has read the script, and it’s “so funny.” Care to share with the rest of your class, Annie?

October 3, 2024: Can we please welcome to the study room, Ms. Shirley Bennett! Yvette Nicole Brown spoke with The Wrap, confirming her involvement in the Community movie— you know, that movie that still hasn’t begun filming yet. Sigh!“It’s ‘Community’ script. It’s really funny, it’s very irreverent, it’s silly,” she teased. “A lot of it’s probably going to change. You know, Dan Harmon is always — Dan Harmon and Andrew Guess are our writers, and they’re always thinking and moving and incorporating things… They can now change some things for Shirley’s character as well.” She comforts her fellow human beings that everyone is still on board with the movie; now they’re back to square 1: scheduling issues.

This post has been updated.