Dan Harmon un-confirms existence of Community movie script

In the least surprising Community news ever, the Community film script isn’t actually done. We thought it was done because Donald Glover thought it was done. But actually, it’s only “almost” done, writer Dan Harmon tells Variety. Of course, Harmon is also the one who told Glover that the script was done in the first place. Can anything be trusted anymore?

Here is Harmon’s specific statement on the current status of the script: “I can confirm Donald Glover’s report that I told him the script was done, but I will also say Donald’s sources are so unreliable because the script is always ‘almost done.’ What can I tell you about it—it’s set on the campus of Greendale Community College. I’m super excited about it, and we’re almost done.”

This confusion is actually lining up with Glover’s original, pre-strike assumption about the script, which is that “in true Dan fashion, we’ll probably get it on the first day.” But Harmon previously claimed he and his co-writer Andrew Guest were trying to get the script “to a place where they can shoot it as is—or as close to as is as possible without rewrites,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Harmon didn’t want people like Glover “to come back and once again be getting blue pages run down by an intern that totally contradict what they spent all night memorizing,” he told the outlet in September 2023. “I want to have a veneer of, ‘Here’s your reward.’ I don’t want them to go, like, ‘Oh, he’s learned nothing, he’s treating us like cattle again.’”

He may have gone in with the best intentions, but perhaps returning to his old proving ground has caused something of a regression for Harmon. “I’ve been having kind of a nervous breakdown the last couple of months just by working on it, and that’s a good thing because I’m having all kinds of flashbacks to 2009. It’s gonna be awesome,” he told Variety. “I’m like, ‘Why am I crying about these characters?’”