It’s been four years since Peacock greenlit the continuation of the NBC sitcom.

Donald Glover promises the *Community *movie will happen ‘soon’: ‘I know everybody’s been saying that’

It's been four years since Peacock greenlit the continuation of the NBC sitcom.

By Derek Lawrence

Derek Lawrence

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April 1, 2026 6:13 p.m. ET

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Donald Glover on 'Community'. Credit:

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Donald Glover knows that fans are tired of being told that the *Community *movie is still happening, but he promises that this time he's telling the truth.

It's been 11 years since the beloved sitcom concluded, and another four years since Peacock officially announced plans for a film continuation, and yet, the "six seasons and a movie" prophecy has yet to be fulfilled. If Glover is to be believed, things are finally getting close.

"We were just on the text chain talking about it," he told *ET* of conversations with his castmates about the revival. "We're working on it right now. I know everybody's been saying that for forever, but, I swear to you, I'm not lying about this. I really think it's something that's going to happen soon."

The 'Community' cast in the episode 'Curriculum Unavailable'.

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The* Community* team and its fans have been trying to will a movie into existence since the show was still on the air, with "six seasons and a movie" becoming a rallying cry after the line was first dropped in a season 2 episode by Abed (Danny Pudi). In the subsequent years, the cast and creator Dan Harmon have kept insisting that they're all game, and then class seemed back in session when Peacock ordered the film in 2022. But cameras have still yet to roll.

“We got very close to shooting that,” *Community* movie co-writer Andrew Guest recently revealed. "As the writers' strikes and actors' strikes were ending [in 2023], all of our cast were available. All of them wanted to do it. We had a line producer. We had a script that we were in the process of starting to rewrite and one of our actors' projects sort of came in conflict in terms of timing."

Joel McHale previously pointed to Glover's schedule as the biggest obstacle, given the multi-hyphenate's various projects, but the Grammy-winning artist has pushed back on that notion. “Everybody is hating on me on the internet and it’s not me," he declared. "They’re like, ‘We know that you’re the reason.’ Maybe I was last year — maybe — but not this time.”

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Whenever it does happen, *Community* scene-stealer Ken Jeong said of the script, "It made me emotional, and just brought me right back."

Sounds like it will be worth the wait.

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