“Six seasons and a film.” What began out as Abed Nadir’s ill-fated prediction for a way lengthy the short-lived NBC sequence The Cape would final ended up turning into a rallying cry for Group followers’ personal hopes. The six seasons half was completed because of the comedy sequence shifting to the now-defunct Yahoo! Display for its remaining season, and in 2022, it was introduced after years of hypothesis that the Group film was certainly shifting ahead. A bit over two years later, Ken Jeong has shared an replace on what’s occurring with the Peacock subscription-exclusive function, teasing that will probably be “magical and actual emotional.”
In an interview with TV Insider tied to his look within the Fox anthology sequence Accused, Jeong, who performed Ben Chang for everything of Group’s run, mentioned that the Group film remains to be on the best way somewhat than having been shelved, promising it’s “not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.” He continued:
There’s a script, there’s a plan. We simply don’t know when [it will happen]. As soon as that’s agreed upon, it’ll be magical and actual emotional… I feel being on set experiencing that once more [will be] so gratifying. Phrases can’t even specific.
That is arguably the largest replace the mission has gotten since Group creator Dan Harmon acknowledged in June he was doing a “remaining go” on the script that he was writing with Andrew Visitor. Half a yr later, it seems as if mentioned script is full, as a result of along with Ken Jeong confirming that it exists, he additionally had the next to say about what he felt when he learn it:
It made me emotional, and simply introduced me proper again, and that’s all I’m legally allowed to say.
Though no plot particulars have been revealed but, it was formally introduced proper off the bat that Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Alison Brie and Jim Rash will seem alongside Ken Jeong within the Group film, and Yvette Nicole Brown and Donald Glover had been confirmed to even be returning shortly thereafter. McHale made it clear final yr that Chevy Chase is not going to be again to reprise the late Pierce Hawthorne, although that shouldn’t come as a shock contemplating the Saturday Evening Stay alum hasn’t been shy about saying how a lot he disliked engaged on Group.
Exterior of simply how nice it’ll be seeing these characters reunite inside the partitions of Greendale Group Faculty, I’m trying ahead to seeing what particularly made Ken Jeong so emotional when he learn the script, and I’m much more wanting to study what the Group film will really start filming so we are able to get a greater thought of when will probably be launched on Peacock. Talking of which, all of Group, a kind of sitcoms good to your subsequent long-binge, could be discovered on that very same streaming platform.