While 15 new episodes of Arrested Development are set to debut on Netflix on May 26th, there's still no deal in place for the movie that the new episodes set up, and according to Jason Bateman, it's going to be at least a year or a year and a half. While promoting his new movie Disconnect, Bateman told movie site I Am Rogue that the Netflix episodes ask "a bunch of questions that then the movie answers, so it's kind of a package. Unfortunately, there's probably gonna be about a year, maybe a year-and-a-half gap between the two, so you'll end up having to watch these episodes [...]
We reported last year that Arrested Development producer Brian Grazer and producer/narrator Ron Howard are appearing onscreen in the show's run of new Netflix episodes when they drop this May, but now, Howard and Grazer have revealed the nature of their on-camera roles. At a charity event this week, Howard and Grazer mentioned that the show's plot this year will involve their production company Imagine Entertainment turning the Bluth family story into a movie. "One of the very last lines in the show was when [I say], 'I don't think [Arrested Development] is a TV show; maybe it's a movie,'" explained Howard. "So in the new season, [...]
Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz and stars Will Arnett and Jeffrey Tambor did a panel at South by Southwest this weekend in which they discussed the Arrested Development movie that this upcoming 14-episode Netflix season is leading up to. Despite the fact that no movie deal is in place and the script hasn't been written, Hurwitz says he expects that the gang will be able to get the movie made. "I'm confident that we will succeed at that," Hurwitz predicted, with Arnett adding, "There is a bigger story out there that does exist." He explained further:
"We have nothing else right now. Here’s what we have: we [...]
Don't worry, Arrested Development is still set to come back for a 14-episode fourth season this May, but after that, don't expect to see any more new episodes. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings referred to the upcoming season as a "fantastic one-off" at a conference for investors today, adding that the season was made under "non-repeatable circumstances." Hasting continued, "We don't anticipate being able to do seasons five, six, seven. We have less of a stake in it. Arrested Development is a wildly successful tactic as opposed to fundamental to the strategy." A Netflix spokesperson elaborated to The Wall Street Journal that it would be "extremely difficult to [...]
Actress Judy Greer, whom you know from Arrested Development, Archer, The Descendants, and a million other things, just signed a deal with publisher Doubleday to write her first book, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Entitled I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star, the book is a humorous collection of essays tracing Greer's life from her childhood in the Midwest to her career as a prominent supporting actress in TV and film. She can next be seen reprising her role of Kitty Sanchez in the new season of Arrested Development on Netflix and appearing in the remake of Carrie, and she continues to voice Cheryl [...]
