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Have you heard THE NEWS? The only news on the whole internet? In the whole world, maybe? Also I think it’s the only thing all the aliens in space are alien blogging about? By now I’m sure you have, but just to recap: At a New Yorker Festival event on Sunday, October 2nd, Mich Hurwitz announced plans for an Arrested Development movie with a ten-episode TV stint leading up to its release in 2013ish. That sounds great! Very good news! But also it still sounds like kind of a big maybe. Right? Here are some Mich Hurwitz New Yorker Festival quotes from The New York Times:
“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.”
And then also:
“We’re trying to do a limited-run series into the movie. We’re basically hoping to do nine or 10 episodes, with almost one character per episode.”
“Don’t completely own the property.” “Trying.” “Hoping.” Those sound like heartbreak words to me! But, I sincerely hope that they will not turn out to be heartbreak words. Because this all sounds very good. Soooooo. What do YOU guys think? Excited? Can’t even eat anything because you’re so excited? Afraid they’ll just RUIN IT? Don’t care either way? Want to post Arrested Development GIFs? It’s an open thread, feel free to have whatever opinion you’d like.
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Truth be told, I’d be much happier if they would just do a fourth season and skip the movie entirely. It feels entirely unnecessary at this point, and I would imagine the fans that the show earned after it was canceled would generate enough of an audience for additional seasons. But still:
See also: http://videogum.com/54951/5_reasons_the_arrested_develop/everyones-a-critic/
In lieu of the full panel video, which is supposedly coming soon, you can enjoy the whole cast doing Gob’s chicken dance right now: http://gtcha.me/qZ9UhI
Wouldn’t it be great if these individual character episodes were just about secondary characters like Ice or Franklin or Gene Parmesan?
I’d watch a whole SEASON about Franklin.
Actually, I think that “Ice: The Series” would be pretty excellent. Can he balance his bounty hunting day job with his true passion, party planning?
Maybe a cartoon?
“Hi do you have any larger pictures? That picture is not large enough.”
As long as Gob gets to keep animation rights this time.
“look! A seagull!”
Did someone say Baby Banana Grabber?
GENE! AHHH!!!
Or Carl Weathers….
… add some broth, a potato — baby, you got a stew going!
That’s the part I really don’t understand; the whole series is based on the chaos of having multiple plot lines intersecting and getting rooms full of characters together to bounce off of eachother. I don’t see how a single-character episode would be anything other than boring. Also, if they do 10 episodes with one character per episode, that likely means:
1. George Sr.
2. Lucille
3. GOB
4. Michael
5. Lindsay
6. Buster
7. Tobias
8. George-Michael
9. Maeby
10. Oscar?? Annyong?? Doesn’t really seem like there’s a prominent enough 10th character for an entire episode to be based around.
Hooking up with your cousin is kind of less cute when you’re nearly 30, guys, just saying. But this will still be awesome if it ever happens so yay!
*or 23. whatever wikipedia.
This is Hollywood, so 23 = nearly 30 in real life, and 16 on TV and movies.
Seem inevitable now that Arrested Development will get booed at the next GOP debate.
I am feeling optimistic about this. It seems with this news that its at least much more likely to happen now than ever before, and if they have the creative side pretty much finished then I think the fact that the show has grown a lot in popularity in the last few years will push the studios to get things done on the business side of things.
“Hoping”? “Trying”?
if the new episodes and movie don’t happen i’m going to be all:
(hope this is what you meant)
tomato, tomahto
uh, so apparently my gif didn’t post…but i went with this one (please work! please work!)
We’re re-watching Season 1 right now on Netflix. Last night was the “Visiting Ours” episode, where George Bluth, Sr. says, “Daddy horny, Michael.” Seen it a billion times. STILL laugh. Every time.
There are more details here with fewer caveats:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/223924/20111003/arrested-development-new-season.htm
The good news is: a new season of Arrested Development and a movie; the bad news is: FOX is probably having Seth MacFarlane produce it.
im gonna come up with the most obscure arrested development quote and say it casually to all my friends this week and then condescend them when they don’t remember it. im so pumped.
“Chickens don’t clap” & “from whence it came” & “lit only by natural light” always do the trick for me.
Is it Mardi Gras?
Also, “Chickens Don’t Clap” was my team name for an Arrested Development Pub Quiz.
If they’re jerking me around about this and it ends up not happening, I will murder everyone involved!
It can’t be a trick. A trick is what a whore does for money.
Or candy!
Sorry to be a debbie downer, but I am not feeling it. How can they re-create the momentum of the show now with all this time gone? AND an entire episode about each character? Yikes. I mean, yes I will watch the new season and movie a million times. I’m just not expecting magic.
I don’t understand why Mr. Hurwitz doesn’t listen to my amazing idea, probably because I’m not in the television industry probably. Forget the new series/movie. Every year they should do an old school Arrested Development Holiday spectacular. Each year they could do a Thanksgiving or Christmas or New Years or maybe even Halloween (!) special, and the premise would be the family is getting together for the first time since the show ended, or the last Holiday special aired, and we get to see where they are in their lives and the comedic antics that ensue during their holiday reunion.
Seriously though, this seems like a much more realistic goal than the movie that won’t ever happen or renewing a TV series that’s already been cancelled. Plus because it’s once a year and a huge event they could get huge ratings.
To quote myself on Twitter, “Arrested Development is coming back and white people haven’t been this excited since institutional racism replaced the individual kind.” RELAX, NERDS.
The show ended over half a decade ago. AD has been gone for two ADs. Let it lie!
#unpopularopinionsgum
Don’t stick a branch in the hornets’ nest, Andrew.
However, making fun of white people for being racist may never stop being funny to me.
Hahaha, “to quote myself on Twitter”.
Hey man, that stuff’s on the Library of Congress.
I’m not sure how to feel about this despite how much I love that show. Everything Mitchell Hurwitz has done since has been terrible. Also, I once met one of the original writers and he told me how that show was a completely disorganized mess. They never had the scripts done on time, sometimes cobbling them together the day before they were supposed to shoot. And, yet they made magic, and I can’t see how you can duplicate that.
Really what kind of job? Beads. Bees?!