Another series of 'Arrested Development'... and a movie!

Basq

There was a cast reunion in NY this evening and Mitch Hurwitz has just announced:

Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, speaking at the New Yorker festival today, says that he plans on doing a last, "limited" season of the show before making the long-promised movie.

Amazing news if true!

allanb49

Just saw this on facebook no other news yet....

Basq

Bit more info here..

Here's a spot of Sunday news for you Arrested Development fans, via The Daily What and The New Yorker's twitter feed. Apparently at a cast reunion for the show, creator Mitchell Hurwitz announced that the critically-acclaimed show is returning for one mini-season of nine or ten episodes before production begins on a movie. Whether that'll be a feature film or a television feature isn't clear, but given the stature of the cast it'd be hard not to see it as a feature.

That's about all the information that there is, but according to a New York Times reporter, the new episodes are intended to be a "where are they now" kind of series, catching up with the characters and re-familiarizing everyone with them before the film.

I'll update this story with any more news as it develops.

triseke

Awesome!

I'll believe it when I see it.

Dman001

I dunno about this. I thought the first Season was brilliant, but the quality went downhill fast in Season 2 and 3 to a point where it became tedious to watch.

amacachi

Link in OP has nothing on it.

Basq

I loved season 2 even more than the first but season 3 was disappointing.. especially Charlize Theron's appearance.

Basq

amacachi wrote: »

Link in OP has nothing on it.

It's under the Sunday schedule..

New Event | “Arrested Development” / A Bluth Family Reunion
With Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, David Cross, Portia de Rossi, Tony Hale, Mitchell Hurwitz, Alia Shawkat, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jessica Walter. Moderated by Nancy Franklin.
Sold Out
4 P.M. Acura at SIR Stage37
508 West 37th Street ($30)


Read more http://www.newyorker.com/festival/schedule/sunday#ixzz1ZfTL1rtC

Mr F!

Is Ron Howard still tied to directing it?

amacachi

I mean quotes or video. :pac:

amacachi

Well whatever. I just Blue myself.

Dman001

Basq wrote: »

I loved season 2 even more than the first but season 3 was disappointing.. especially Charlize Theron's appearance.

That whole storyline actually, with Charlize Theron, was one of the main reasons why Season 3 became so unwatchable.

It'll be interesting to see what they come up with though. But I really don't think a Movie could work.

Basq

Will Arnett just posted the following on Twitter..

arnettwill Will Arnett
I'm peeing with @batemanjason at the moment..and we can confirm that we are going to make new AD eps and a movie

fruvai

There is a god

shuffles88

I just saw this news on facebook, i'm so excited to see this! The new series more so than the movie I must admit, but I'd still give that a chance too. CAN'T WAIT:D

krudler

Jason Bateman confirmed it on facebook and twitter

It's true. We will do 10 episodes and the movie. Probably shoot them all together next summer for a release in early '13. VERY excited!

Burgo

A mate of mine just told me the good news,dear god i cannot wait.

Duggy747

Oh come on!!

KerranJast

I'm currently prancing around my living room to "Final Countdown" in celebration. Now where did I leave the fire extinguisher?

KeanSeenan

My life when the show ended.

Then this news came out of nowhere and hit me like...

and I rejoiced.

Mindkiller

Oh hey, Arrested Development gifs. I've got loads of those

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

Rjd2

Don't get to excited just yet..
http://www.avclub.com/articles/mitchell-hurwitz-now-promising-a-fourth-season-of,62625/

Mitchell Hurwitz now promising a fourth season of Arrested Development in addition to a movie

Not content with merely teasing fans with an Arrested Development movie, creator Mitchell Hurwitz has now upped the ante to a movie and a return to series television for the show, telling an audience at today’s New Yorker festival that a nine- or ten-episode “limited-run” fourth season of the show would help provide the prelude to the film that is still definitely happening, seriously. Adding further fuel to the flame, both Jason Bateman and Will Arnett later tweeted that both the movie and the next round of episodes would shoot next summer, probably seeing release sometime in 2013, while Bateman spoke for the rest of the assembled Arrested Development cast and crew in saying that “creatively we are all on board.” (As for supposed longtime holdout Michael Cera, Hurwitz explained that the whole ruse was just an idea for a “inside joke” he’d had based on Cera’s “Andy Kaufman thing.” You know, that Andy Kaufman thing that Michael Cera has.) Clearly, for a show that has inspired a religious faith in its Second Coming, this Sunday saw some especially impassioned preaching.

And now, the obligatory caveats: Hurwitz acknowledges that, while the creative side is cooperating 100 percent, the stumbling block, as always, comes down to money. “We don’t completely own the property, there are business people involved and studios and that kind of thing,” he said—as he's always said—adding that the expanded project “requires studios to work together that don’t typically work together, film and TV.” And of course, as of right now, there's neither a film studio nor a network attached to either project, meaning Hurwitz has essentially doubled down on his bet that someone cares enough about reviving Arrested Development for its cult fanbase.

But that’s boring, pragmatic, cynical realist stuff! As a far more entertaining distraction, Hurwitz offered some tantalizingly specific details about the now much bigger project. As he explained, the new episodes would focus on a single character at a time, all in order to fill in the backstory on what’s happened to them since the last episode—and according to the New York Times, he’s even got the first episode mapped out:

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.’ ”

Why, it’s almost like you can see it in your head! (Which is still pretty much the only place you’re definitely going to, as of right now.) So in conclusion, don’t get your hopes up about an Arrested Development movie anymore. Get them up about an Arrested Development movie and a fourth season.

Penn

Mr Freeze

This is joyous news!:pac:

Roar

when I heard the news, I blue myself

JP Liz V1

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/10/02/netflix-or-showtime-who-will-nab-the-new-arrested-development-limited-series/

Showtime and Netflix are in talks for the tv show

phasers

Mindkiller

There was a post here but now it's gone

Basq

Apparently, the whole 90 minute reunion taping will be posted online later this week.

EDIT: There's some handheld footage online for those who can't wait..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvYx7puZB8

And they finished the show by having the entire cast do the chicken dance..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTsu-ks9Gb8

phasers

Mindkiller wrote: »

^^No hotlinking you filthy newfag

Did you really just say newfag?

ronnie3585

You better not be lying to the guy IN THE $3,000 SUIT!!!

Roar

ronnie3585 wrote: »

You better not be lying to the guy IN THE $3,000 SUIT!!!

COME ON!

Mindkiller

Mindkiller wrote: »

^^No hotlinking you filthy newfag

Surely this counts as personal abuse.

If not, surely it counts as pure idiocy and should be punished accordingly.

Mindkiller

Deleted User wrote: »

Surely this counts as personal abuse.

If not, surely it counts as pure idiocy and should be punished accordingly.

The term 'newfag' isn't homophobic, at least when used in this context.

Phaser's post originally linked an image from 4chan, but you can't hotlink to that site. The suffix 'fag' is used a lot on that site, but very rarely used in a homophobic context, hence my using it.

But I'll edit it out if it caused offence

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

god damn summerfags

Kiwi_knock

Can not wait for it, am going to go and watch all the episodes again.

It is a good idea to have both episodes and the movie, there would have been too much material to cover in a film.

Hopefully we see the return of some of the side characters such as Barry, Bob Loblaw, Anne, Carl Weathers, Maggie Lizer, Annyong, Kitty, Lucille 2, Steve Holt, Gene Parmesan, J Walter Weatherman, Wayne Jarvis, and my two favourites Mrs Featherbottom and Franklin Delano Bluth.

I have such high hopes for this return.

Roar

This news is solid.

Solid as Iraq.

ronnie3585

It worked!

BopNiblets

The whole 100 min reunion thing is on Facebook (which I odn't have)

I wonder can someone rip it (with Firefox addon DownloadHelper or something) and put it online? :pac:
http://www.slashfilm.com/watch-entire-100-minute-arrested-development-bluth-family-reunion/

Basq

BopNiblets wrote: »

The whole 100 min reunion thing is on Facebook (which I odn't have)

I wonder can someone rip it (with Firefox addon DownloadHelper or something) and put it online? :pac:
http://www.slashfilm.com/watch-entire-100-minute-arrested-development-bluth-family-reunion/

Yeah, waiting for direct download.

Powered by BrightCove Player? Never heard of it..

amacachi

Any sign of that whole panel yet?

Basq

amacachi wrote: »

Any sign of that whole panel yet?

2 posts up.. how'd ya miss that?

Fishooks12

Good god I can't wait, just watched the first episode again !

mister_h

Is anyone else extremely excited about the fact that Arrested Development is coming back?

JustAddWater

mister_h wrote: »

Is anyone else extremely excited about the fact that Arrested Development is coming back?

Huh? Elaborate? Link?

Don't get me excited for nothing!!!!!!!

mayordenis

They announced a good while ago, 12 new episodes and a film, shooting in 2012.

JustAddWater

mayordenis wrote: »

They announced a good while ago, 12 new episodes and a film, shooting in 2012.

:eek:

mister_h

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32520

Apparently an 8 episode season with each episode focusing on one character and then a movie!!

Agent Smith

Fishooks12

Went back and watched it all again when I heard the news

Really can't wait now

Even if it was the same standard as S3 I'd be happy. It wasn't as good but still had some ridiculously funny moments

The Tobias hair plug story is brilliant. (Trying not to laugh in work now thinking of him falling out of the wheelchair)