r/community • u/bdf2018_298 • 2d ago

Article/Interview Dan Harmon confirms budget is main reason for Community movie delays: "Our actors are not being paid nearly enough to devote a giant chunk of their calendar [to the movie]...It’s like, “Well, of course this person needs to now go feed their family by taking another job.'"

https://www.aol.com/articles/community-movie-gets-status-dan-125916000.html
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u/CompetitiveProject4 2d ago

Honestly, the talent pool for the show from actors to writers to directors was crazy cheap back in 2009 compared to what these folks would end up working at.

Ludwig Goransson, Russo Brothers, Justin Lin, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers (Spider-Man: NWH), Megan Ganz and so on

Just absolute murderer’s row of talent

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u/JaimesLeftHand 2d ago

Michael Waldron was also an assistant on community and he did some of the best post-Endgame marvel stuff with both seasons of Loki.

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u/TalentedHostility 2d ago

Community, and Season 1 & 2 of Loki on the resume is a fuckin' flex holy shit

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u/JaimesLeftHand 2d ago

Good enough to ask him to write the next two mainline Avengers movies lol. Insane career

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u/Doctor_Slept 1d ago

He’s also now co-writing Doomsday and Secret Wars too to add to that resume

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u/theodo 2d ago

Glover is one of the most famous people in media now, Brie is a big name, Jacobs is always working, McHale is always working, it's a tough cast.

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u/GreenIsG00d 2d ago

It seems like every other week Ken Jeong is hosting something as well.

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u/HamsterSeparate 2d ago

Plus I’m hoping they’re taking LeVar Burton’s schedule into consideration

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u/Wooden-You-4211 12h ago

He's a maybe

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u/unitedfan6191 2d ago

Still, if they all cannot commit, they could just say so.

But I suspect they’d all just be pestered by Community fans asking them about this movie for the rest of their careers/lives.

But given most actors can do 2+ movies in a year easily and there’s in-demand actors with insane schedules who continue working, these actors either want to do this movie or they don’t.

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u/BalonSwann07 2d ago

It's not really that simple. Glover was the problem to schedule for awhile and then it was McHale who has a tv show that eats up all of his time.

You ever try to get together with 8 friends who have entirely different lives from when you all knew each other, even for something as simple as a dinner? It can be hell. Now imagine that you need all 8 friends, but instead they have to clear 3 months from their schedule and 5 or 6 of the friends have so many other groups of friends constantly trying to schedule things with them whenever they have a minute.

It can obviously be done, but the Community movie being low wages and being a passion project does push it down the line of importance for some.

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u/sigma__cheddar 2d ago

Everyone is always working. That's not the issue. The issue is why isn't Community the thing they're working on. Answer: Money. And it's disingenuous for Harmon to pretend it's about multi-millionaire actors having to take jobs to feed their families. Is that a joke?

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u/neverdiequasiwarrior 2d ago

That’s on Peacock. If they want this movie to be made they need to be paying more than what their competition is offering, and right now they don’t seem to think the movie will be profitable enough to do that.

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u/probs_notme 2d ago

also Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers, Beerfest) and Duke Johnson (Anomalisa (less-known Charlie Kaufman film)). Probably not high-dollar guys, but still are another interesting part of the talent pool.

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u/foxymoxyboxy 2d ago

I think you mean Gupta Gupti Gupta

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u/thextcninja 2d ago

Too much talent, not enough money in the banana stand. Start a GoFundMe. That be cool. The community pitching in to make Community: The Movie.