Feature Pitch · Greendale, After Season Six
CommunityThe Movie
Six Seasons and a Movie
“They finally got the movie. Nobody said it had to behave.”
LoglineA world-famous director comes home to film the Greendale study group restaging their own legend, the one proof that unlocks the bequest keeping their campus off the auction block, and every recreation crashes into the adults they actually became, until the man who films everything learns the people he loves were never his footage to keep.
What do you owe the people who knew you before you became who you are now?
LeadAbed, the man who cannot stop filming
FoilHis own unfinished film
WantStop time, keep the group
ClockA bulldozer at the gate
PrizePierce’s bequest beats the bid
The Story in Five Beatsapprox 105 pp
- Abed, now a famous director who funded the search that found Troy, comes home to film the reunion, and Greendale is weeks from the auction block.
- He stages their greatest hits as legal proof of adulthood, and every one of them refuses to play themselves.
- Pierce’s sealed file hands Abed one cruel sentence per person, and using it for his edit costs him Troy.
- The premiere collapses in public, and Abed puts the camera down for the first time in his life.
- They beat a dead man by refusing his sentences, Greendale survives, and two grown men find a new rhythm.
Comps
Downton Abbey: A New Era · loyal-base ceiling
Veronica Mars (2014) · cult-revival mirror
Bill & Ted Face the Music · legacy duo, aged with grace
Birdman · tone, the man and his art project
Scope
$20-30M Peacock-exclusive streaming feature
One location, the Greendale campus
Ensemble already contracted, six of nine locked
Pierce archival only, voice and photos, dignified
The Ask
- Greenlight as a Peacock-exclusive feature in the $20-30M tier.
- A director who can hold sincerity and chaos in the same frame.
- A production block that concentrates Donald Glover’s Troy into a shootable window.