Disney is making ready to facilitate the crossover occasion of the yr, and never a Marvel superhero or piece of pre-existing IP is in sight.
The casts of FXX‘s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and ABC‘s Abbott Elementary totally united for the primary time in a photograph shared by It’s Always Sunny star and creator Rob McElhenney from the set of the upcoming crossover.
“School’s out y’all,” he wrote on Instagram with the photo that featured his co-stars, spouse Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito, Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day, in addition to Abbott Elementary stars Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Chris Perfetti, Tyler James Williams and creator Quinta Brunson.
With Season 4 of Abbott largely centered on gentrification within the faculty’s Philly neighborhood, and Season 17 of It’s Always Sunny premiering in 2025, the plot particulars of the crossover are nonetheless unknown.
Brunson beforehand detailed how the “actually thrilling” crossover got here to be as she appeared final week on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“I used to be very impressed by watching lots of reveals over the pandemic,” she defined. “I used to be binging Family Matters and Full House and stuff like that, and I used to be shocked at how shocked I used to be when Steve Urkel confirmed up on the Full House set. I used to be screaming at my TV.”
The Golden Globe winner defined that she linked with McElhenney after social media comparisons of their reveals, that are each set within the City of Brotherly Love.
“Something got here up on-line, and he was like, ‘Someone stated this looks as if a Sunny episode, this looks as if an Abbott episode,’” Brunson recalled. “And then we form of linked over that. And then we actually linked in particular person, and I simply get together with him and his crew so effectively, that we felt like we might truly do that.”
After teasing the crossover earlier this month, Brunson shared a photograph from set with McElhenney and Day. “Season 4 of Abbott Elementary will get actual Sunny,” she captioned the post.
Meanwhile, the forged of It’s Always Sunny celebrated the twentieth anniversary of filming the pilot this week as McElhenney re-wore the identical leather-based jacket for the crossover that he donned within the first episode.
“20 years in the past these three children made a pilot for FX referred to as It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” wrote Howerton, who developed the present with McElhenney. “Today… 20 years later we begin filming season 17. These children didn’t know what they had been doing, however that they had a imaginative and prescient. Thank you to FX for trusting that imaginative and prescient. Thank you to our followers who preached the gospel from the beginning. We are eternally grateful.”
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