Photo of Joel McHale by Rob LaTour
While Joel McHale has been in New York this week promoting his new show The Great Indoors, the actor said during CBS's upfront presentation on Wednesday he's still hoping a Community movie can get funding.
“If somebody funds it, we would love to make a movie," McHale said. "The way Dan [Harmon] has already described it—which I could not agree more with—is it can’t just be a two-hour episode. It has to have a real budget and it has to be probably pretty epic. We need money. Netflix has the money!”
Community aired for five seasons on NBC before being canceled and picked up for a sixth season by Yahoo! Screen, until that platform itself was eliminated, therefore ending the show.
The Great Indoors is set to premiere Thursdays this fall on CBS. It follows McHale's Jack Gordon, a renowned adventure reporter who takes a desk job at a magazine and struggles to understand the world of online click-bait and his staff of millenials who have never really experienced the great outdoors they write about.
There are currently no official plans to revive Community, but fans have long rallied for "six seasons and a movie."