Jun 28 2008
We haven’t seen the last of the Bluth family
There have been vague mentions of an ”Arrested Development” movie since the show went off the air two years ago. I’ve tried not to pay too much attention, as it felt like idle rumors and I don’t like my emotions toyed with. Now, however, confirmation has come from Michael Bluth himself! According to Defamer, Jason Bateman confirms that the film will start shooting in 2009.
“It’s typically bent and twisted,” Bateman says of series creator Mitchell Hurwitz’s plot. ”He’s got a really, really good idea for the movie version that would not be just simply the equivalent of four episodes back to back to back. It’s actually something that would be specific to the medium of film.” Bateman continues: “All the actors want to do it, the writers want to do it, and the boss wants to do it… But it’s a long, sort of drawn-out, complicated business process. ‘Arrested Development’ is such a specific tone, it doesn’t lend itself to mass appeal, as played out by the fact that it’s canceled. So it has to be done for a price.”
It sounds like the actors and writers are jonesing for their Bluth fix just as much as AD fans. Jeffrey Tambor, who plays Bluth Senior, also mentioned the project on his Friday night appearance on Craig Ferguson’s talk show. As one Defamer commenter wrote: “Of late I’d been searching for a reason to live. Finally, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” Cheers to that!
