Community: Original cast member Donald Glover set to return for movie after doubt
Neighborhood star Joel McHale has revealed the movie will star an authentic cast member after all.
In September 2022, it was introduced that the sitcom’s promise of “six seasons and a movie” would lastly come true.
US streaming service Peacock shared the information seven years after the sequence got here to an finish, saying that creator Dan Harmon would oversee the mission, and that almost all of the primary cast can be returning.
This included McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Jim Rash and Ken Jeong – nonetheless, on the time, it was reported that three cast members weren’t but hooked up to star: Donald Glover, Chevy Chase and Yvette Nicole Brown.
McHale has now confirmed Glover’s return as Troy Barnes throughout an look on podcast Let’s Speak Off Digicam with Kelly Ripa.
The actor, who performs Jeff Winger, stated Glover was “coming again”, including: ‘And that’s actually necessary. The truth that we even acquired Donald to do it… that was the massive piece.”
He additionally prompt that Shirley star Yvette Nicole Brown can be within the movie, stating: “However I feel everybody’s coming again. Up to now, we’re fairly good, and I feel that can occur. If not, then, you understand, Donald will likely be there. See? It’ll simply be Donald. It’ll simply be an episode of Atlanta.”
Brown beforehand stated she “knew nothing” in regards to the mission, and stated she solely found it was occurring when McHale made the announcement.
Glover’s profile has risen significantly since he made his debut in Neighborhood. He created and starred within the Emmy Award-winning sequence Atlanta, which drew to a detailed after 4 season in 2022, and has gained 5 Grammys for his work as musician Infantile Gambino.
Donald Glover as Troy Barnes in ‘Neighborhood’
(Peacock)
Neighborhood ran for six seasons, beginning in 2009 and airing its finale in 2015. The movie will start capturing subsequent summer time.
