The wait is over my AD friends! Our favorite series will hit the big screen and it has been confirmed via Austin movie blog and The Playlist that the show’s creator Mitch Hurwitz will direct the ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT The Movie. All this time he’s been working on the script and… Read the rest of this entry »
Here we go again, another round of let’s hear if ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT movie is really going to happen. As a fan of the series, it’s a bit upsetting that all I keep hearing all this time is that the feature is being written and Jason Bateman and Ron Howard seem to be the only ones excited about returning to the Bluth family for the big screen version.
Bateman previously said that the show’s creator Mitch Hurwitz is halfway done writing it and that the movie might arrive in 2011. Hollywood Reporter now said that Mitchell Hurwitz and his co-executive producer James Vallely are working on the screenplay. They are spinning more bizarre encounters for the eccentric, spoiled Bluth family and production might start next Spring. Imagine and Fox Searchlight are producing the film.
Ok, I suppose this gives a little assurance that the Bluth family members will eventually reunite, Hurwitz who won 2 primetime Emmys for AD, had said that he wouldn’t start writing a film unless all the main actors, including Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, David Cross, Will Arnett, Alia Shawkat, Portia de Rossi and Jeffrey Tambor, were committed but Bateman, Cera have been doing extremely well in movies, although Cera is the only one that worries me, he may think he’s too cool and too big now for AD.
The great filmmaker Ron Howard who was the narrator for the short-lived hilarious series ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT told MTV recently that if the fans are wondering why the development on the movie version is slower than a tortoise and taking a long-ass time, blame it on Fox’s new animated series SIT DOWN, SHUT UP which is also created by the genius Mitch Hurwitz
“Still waiting on a script,” Howard told MTV News this week. “Mitch’s television company was very successful—good for Mitch—and slowed things up a little bit for ‘Arrested Development’ fans.”
“He’s thinking about it. He’s told me some of the ideas. They’re hilarious. But he hasn’t pulled it together into a script—that I know of! Maybe he’ll see this and email me something.”
I don’t care about no stinkin’ SIT DOWN, SHUT UP. In fact that’s exactly what I’d tell that series because ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT movie should be a priority. We’ve been waiting since 2006 when the show got canceled because for some reason, not many people were watching it, low ratings.
Pardon my strong opinion on this matter, you can tell I’m a hardcore fan.
As far as casting goes, Howard doesn’t wanna say much but he makes sure nobody gets his job.
“We’ve been asked to no longer divulge anything or get into the game of who’s in, who’s out. People are going to have to see.”
“Nobody can keep me from being the narrator,” Howard said. “That’s my gig, buddy!”
