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Ken Jeong can’t say much about the upcoming film based on Community, but he will share how it made him feel. In a new interview with TV Insider, the actor shared that reading the film’s script made him “emotional.”
“[It] just brought me right back, and that’s all I’m legally allowed to say,” Jeong said, before adding, “There is a script, there is a plan. We just don’t know when [it will happen].”
“Once that’s agreed upon, it’ll be magical and real emotional,” he added. “I think being on set experiencing that again [will be] so gratifying. Words can’t even express.”
Peacock announced its plans to revive the sitcom as a feature film in 2022, promising to bring back its main actors, including Jeong, Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, and Jim Rash, along with the series creator Dan Harmon.
Harmon previously told Hollywood Reporter that all of the castmates, except for Chevy Chase, had agreed to return for the film.
“The thing that’s going to matter most to me as an audience member or to anybody who loved that show is seeing those people see each other,” he said. “And they still love each other, and it’s not going to feel the same if you’re shooting them separately at different months in different locations.”
Fans grabbed onto the mantra “six seasons and a movie” based on dialogue from Season Two after the series ended as they pleaded the crew to bring back the show as a film. Community— about a group of students of varying ages at Greendale Community College — originally ran from 2009 to 2015, and gained a cult following.
“‘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 (cool, cool) NBC comedy,” said Susan Rovner, an NBCUniversal exec, in a statement back in 2022. “We’re incredibly grateful that 15 years later, we are able to deliver fans this promised movie.”
