Arrested Development ::

 

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‘Arrested Development’ Movie, and New TV Episodes, Are in the Works

 

Captain Ahab had Moby-Dick; Linus van Pelt had the Great Pumpkin; and, in the five years since “Arrested Development” has gone off the air, fans of that underdog Fox comedy series have spent their lives pining for a film adaptation that would further the adventures of its deeply dysfunctional Bluth clan. Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator of “Arrested Development,” and cast members including Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Michael Cera have also done their part to keep hopes of a movie alive, mentioning the project in numerous interviews, often along with apologies for why it still wasn’t happening yet.

 

On Sunday afternoon, Mr. Hurwitz tossed a few more crumbs to the “Arrested Development” faithful at a New Yorker Festival event that reunited him with the show’s ensemble cast, telling the audience that a movie was still in the works, along with a new set of television episodes that would serve as a prelude to the film. Asked by the event’s moderator, Nancy Franklin, for an update on the movie, Mr. Hurwitz said, “We’re 80 percent of the way to an answer,” which was understandably greeted by some laughter. Mr. Hurwitz went on to say that he and Ron Howard, the director and producer who was the “Arrested Development” narrator, “had been talking about this for ages and trying to get this going.” Mr. Hurwitz continued: “We don’t completely own the property, there are business people involved and studios and that kind of thing. Just creatively, I have been working on the screenplay for a long time and found that as time went by, there was so much more to the story. In fact, where everyone’s been for five years became a big part of the story. So in working on the screenplay, I found even if I just gave five minutes per character to that back story, we were halfway through the movie before the characters got together.” So, Mr. Hurwitz said, “We’re trying to do a limited-run series into the movie.” After a wave of excited applause died down, he continued, “We’re basically hoping to do nine or 10 episodes, with almost one character per episode.” The first episode, he said, could focus on Buster Bluth, the deeply neurotic brother played by Tony Hale. “The latest joke we have,” Mr. Hurwitz said, “is that it’s Cambridge, Mass., and there’s all these scientists in lab coats and they’re waiting for somebody. Buster comes through the door in a white lab coat – ‘Let’s begin’ – and they say, ‘Oh, no, you don’t get to wear the lab coat. We’re experimenting on you.’

 

Assuming Mr. Hurwitz and his “Arrested Development” confederates are not performing their own experiment on their fan base, he said he was about halfway through a screenplay with his co-writers Jim Vallely and Dean Lorey, but did not specify a studio for either the movie or television components, or a network that might broadcast the new episodes. The project, he said, “requires studios to work together that don’t typically work together, film and TV.”

 

Mr. Bateman, who played Michael Bluth, the lone, sane member of the family, said: “There’s business left to be done, but creatively we are all on board and have a very specific plan about how it would come out and what we would do and when we would shoot it. I think we’re targeting next summer to shoot it.” Mr. Hurwitz added, “Perhaps the series is in the fall. This isn’t my decision.”

 

By way of apology, Mr. Hurwitz also said that while he and the “Arrested Development” team had intimated in the past that the movie wasn’t coming together because Mr. Cera – who has since been propelled into leading roles in films like “Superbad” and “Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World” – was standing in the way, this had all been an inside joke gone wrong. “I kind of was perpetuating a little thing, like, wouldn’t it be funny if Michael Cera was the holdout. Let’s put that out there. And Michael had that Andy Kaufman thing. And then it really turned ugly, quickly. So I really just have to say, for those of you that have been following this saga, Michael’s always been great.” (Via The New York Times)

 

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My mind cannot process this without getting giddy and dancing around my bedroom. The greatest comedy of all time is coming back? Not just for a movie? For a mini-series and a fucking movie? DEAD. I JUST BLUE MYSELF THINKING ABOUT THIS. PREMATURELY SHOT MY WAD IF YOU WILL.

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:o This better happen!

'13! :( That's one hell of a wait, nonetheless it's probably gonna be worth it for new episodes of the best comedy series of all time.

The Bluths Are Back and Only on Netflix

 

Twentieth Century Fox Television and Imagine Television Make Historic Deal With World's Leading Internet Subscription Service to Bring Classic Series "Arrested Development" Back to Production

 

America's Favorite Dysfunctional Family Returns For All New Episodes Premiering The First Half Of 2013

REJOICE!

This has Will Arnett in it?! CRAPPPPPP

This has Will Arnett in it?! CRAPPPPPP

 

You haven't seen it? YOU MUST.

 

Our own Leslie Knope makes a cameo.

I haven't watched it yet as well.

 

LESLIE KNOPE OR AMY POEHLER?

I haven't watched it yet as well.

 

LESLIE KNOPE OR AMY POEHLER?

 

But I thought you and Ryan were 1?!

 

Gonna get into this after I'm done with 30 Rock. The clips I've just been watching are too temping.

There were times when I didn't know 30 Rock and Parks and Rec even existed. :o I only got into 30 Rock in like the beginning of 2010 and Parks and Rec - last winter. I suspect Ryan has already been watching both of the shows way before that.

 

NBC need to have another incredible sitcom at the ready when eventually 30 Rock is cancelled. Preferably starring (and written by) Tina Fey!

I refuse to believe that Alia Shawkat and Alexa Vega aren't the same person.

 

Will Arnett is amazing as expected.

Have you been watching it? I just started again on season one. So good.

I cannot think of any other show that (even after all these years) has so many layers and subtle jokes that you don't quite get initially. I'm still finding new things to laugh at and I have watched each episode numerous times! Gah. New season now please.

Aye I'm 4 episodes in. It's not as funny to me as 30 Rock or Parks & Rec yet but I'm hoping it's a grower. I am finding each episode gradually funnier though.

Each episode does get better during the first season, although you have to remember that is came before Parks/30 Rock etc and they both owe a lot to it.

 

:wub:

^ They really do. The humour in this seems a lot more subtle than the others.

 

Lucille is all sorts of amazing. "Where on earth are we going?! Left at the next corner."

This really is just getting better. Altar Egos is my favourite episode so far. Tobias' move at the end to get away from the blind woman killed me.

 

& Amy :wub:

Season 1 was all sorts of amazing. So glad that once I've finished the other 2 I know they will be more!

I forget how young Amy Poehler used to look.