Regarding Chase, whose character died in the fifth season, “I don’t even know if it’s legal for him to come back,” creator Dan Harmon admitted during a Comic-Con panel (via Variety). “That may be out of my hands. There may be something I sign for with an insurance company.” (Harmon and Chase had an infamous falling out behind the scenes of the series.)
As for Donald Glover, who exploded to fame with his rap persona Childish Gambino and his own show Atlanta following his own fifth season exit, Harmon is a bit more optimistic. “I think that Donald is coming, based on word of mouth, but it’s just the deal isn’t official or wasn’t official. It would be difficult to really commit to doing this thing without Donald,” he told Variety. “So I believe he is coming back. I think if there’s names missing from a list, it’s because the names that are on the list, their deals are agreed upon enough that it’s OK to say they are on the list, and anybody that’s not on a list, it’s just not the case yet. So there is nothing official about anybody being out.”
That also seems to indicate good news concerning Brown, who left the show ahead of the sixth season to take care of her ailing father. Behind the scenes, writer Andrew Guest will also return to help write the script for the film. “He was a great Community writer in the…I don’t want to say the peak days…. Andrew was classic Community, He wrote the Dungeons & Dragons episode,” Harmon said during the panel. “He’s going to help me make sure that I don’t pull a Harmon with that script getting executed so that we can actually deliver it and start shooting it.”