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 [...]
Mitch Hurwitz spoke with Vulture, in his first interview since they started shooting the next season of Arrested Development. Mitch couldn't give away too much info – other than, at some point, Michael will walk through a sliding door – but he did expound upon how the show will be different:
[Netflix chief content officer] Ted Sarandos and I have really spent a lot of time finding the ideal way to tailor the show to their platform and I think we have something that embraces the new medium.
He continued:
The episodes are an outgrowth of the design of what we hope will be the movie. They precede [...]
'Arrested Development's' development is not arrested. Last night, Jason Bateman tweeted this picture along with the message: "Taken at AD mission control, today! All systems are go. Filming for the new episodes starts in four weeks. Woo!" Woo, indeed. Ron Howard added a much more adorable version of the same picture and a photo of the color index card filled writers' room. (Both of which are below.) No word yet if the writers were replaced by colorful index cards or if they're just being used to keep all the callbacks and callfowards straight. We're onboard, either way.
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
Up until, oh, last October, if you wanted to dull the pain of Arrested Development being wrongfully cancelled by FOX, you were limited to [...]
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Yesterday, it was announced that Mitch "Arrested Development Movie" Hurwitz had taken a gig directing a remake of a Lars Von Trier movie. Because that movie is not the Arrested Development movie, people are just not happy. This [...]
