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Community Creator Dan Harmon Says Movie 'Will Happen'

‘Community’ is a cult TV comedy which aired on US network NBC from 2009 to 2014 and then for a sixth season on Yahoo! in 2015.

The show had an uncertain future basically since its first episode, with every subsequent season renewal coming as a surprise to its dedicated but hopeful fan-base.

Those fans were so sure the axe was coming that the hashtag “#SixSeasonsAndAMovie” was started up as little more than an optimistic joke early on in the show’s run. However, with six seasons somehow in the bag, that movie could very well end up happening.

Dan Harmon, the show’s creator, certainly thinks it will, telling Larry King on 'Larry King Now’ (via Entertainment Weekly): “It’ll make a great movie. It’ll happen.”

He’s hopeful, but a movie is far from set in stone. Prior to the optimistic sign-off, Harmon said: “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.

“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.”

The series starred Joel McHale, Alison Brie, Gillian Jacobs, Donald Glover and Chevy Chase - many of whome, Brie, Jacobs and Glover especially - have gone on to have successful careers.

'Community’ was far from consistent, suffering in its third season before a truly awful fourth which Harmon wasn’t part of. It found its rhythm again in season’s five and six, and had many wonderful episodes throughout its troubled run.

A movie is far from a gauranteed success, but if Joss Whedon’s 'Firefly’ can be turned into a film after just one cancelled season, then a 'Community’ movie, with its (presumably) smaller budget, can definitely happen. Right?

Picture Credits: NBC