Dan Harmon thanks the Russo Brothers for casting rising star Donald Glover in COMMUNITY

Community Creator Dan Harmon is preparing to do the long-awaited Community: the movie which fans have been hoping for ever since the series ended in 2015. The show was such a well written comedy with an outstanding cast of talented comedians. It was popular in its first run, but has seen even more viewers join the fandom since it moved to streaming, especially during the pandemic.

Also, since its run, the show’s stars have gone on to work on other entertaining projects in their respective careers, but perhaps none more so than Donald Glove, who played Troy Barnes in the show. The star continued to work on her music career as Childish Gambino, and became a two-time Emmy winner for the show Atlantawhich he created and in which he starred. He also played Lando Calrissian in Star Wars universe, Simba in The Lion King, and many other roles that he should be proud of. So what made Dan Harmon choose him as a Hollywood newbie? He can really thank The Russo Brothers (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Finale) for what.

In a 2022 interview with MSNBC (via /Film), Harmon opened up about the pair, who originally directed and produced the Community series, saying that Joe Russo saw Glover “working on YouTube and stuff like that”. He went on to say:

“Joe Russo said, ‘We only make stars if we can spot them.’ You know, let’s not worry about who fits the character or what you had in mind; we just pick people who are clearly going to be stars. And that’s a lot — the Russo brothers were geniuses in casting. And Donald was a figure that they put in front of me, and then I immediately said, “Yes. Absolutely.” And he was clearly a genius. And I’ve often told stories about how we’d literally have the writers’ room, if we operated fast enough, we’d put at the end of a scene, ‘And then Donald says something funny .'”

He definitely had a good eye for finding the stars! Glover was hilarious on that show and it was great to see him extend his creativity to new projects. I can’t wait to see what he does in the future, including the Community movie!