Dan Harmon Says ‘Rick and Morty’ Fans Have Accepted the New Voices: ‘We’re Past It. It Worked, We Transitioned to a New Era’

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The next time you see Dan Harmon on Instagram doing something other than writing the “Community” movie, please don’t yell at him to get back to work.

It’s happening, Harmon promises, but there are so many moving parts that there has never been a precise timeline. “When you see me making fart videos on the Internet, don’t worry that it means I’ve given up making the movie,” Harmon tells Variety. “It’s not how time or the industry work.

If you see me doing it something other than typing, it’s not because I have stopped typing. It’s because when I get on Instagram, I don’t want to make videos about typing.” Harmon’s update is that he’s doing a final pass on the script — but that’s also not the reason cameras haven’t rolled yet. “I’m going to use the time that we have to do a final pass on this thing that hopefully makes everybody real excited and happy,” he says. “In the meantime, can you call them delays when I mean, did we have a shoot day?

The engine is still moving.” And, he stresses, there’s no one person, or reason, that it’s taking time for the project — set to eventually premiere on Peacock — from coming immediately. “I saw where Donald Glover said he’s hearing from fans that they think he’s the reason the movie’s not happening sooner,” Harmon says. “I immediately wanted to get on my Instagram and say, ‘Stop yelling at Donald!