‘Community’ Creator Dan Harmon Reveals Biggest Creative Block to Making Reunion Movie

“If history is any teacher, what I will try to do is solve all those problems, and I’ll end up making a big plate of self-indulgent spaghetti that only five people love”

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“Community” fans got their six seasons, but they still want that movie. And series creator Dan Harmon wants it too — there’s just one big “philosophical question” he has to answer, among the logistical barriers to producing a feature-length reunion of the NBC sitcom. (And it’s not, “will Donald Glover do it?”)

The question in question, which Harmon revealed during a Thursday interview on Vulture’s “Good One” podcast: “Are you supposed to service a mythical new viewer?”

“The obvious, dogmatic, practical, off-the-street answer is like, ‘No, you don’t. It’s fan service. Why would there be a ‘Community’ movie? Who do you think is going to walk in off the street and buy popcorn and sit and watch a ‘Community’ movie like that? They deserve to be punished.

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