There’s big news today for those who are a fan of FOX’s now cancelled show Arrested Development.
A writer for The New York Times attending New Yorker Fest today says that Mitch Hurwitz revealed plans for a new season of the show followed by the long-awaited movie!
Dave Itzkoff tweeted the following:
Mitch Hurwitz says he plans limited Arrested Development series (9-10 eps, 1 character per ep) that would lead into movie. #tnyfest #wellsee
Hurwitz is the creator of Arrested Development and was speaking on a panel about the show today at The New Yorker Festival.
Show star Will Arnett followed up with the following tweet further confirming the news:
I’m peeing with @batemanjason at the moment..and we can confirm that we are going to make new AD eps and a movie.
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What fantastic and surprising news!
UPDATE: Jason Bateman adds the following:
Probably shoot them all together next summer for a release in early ’13. VERY excited!
UPDATE 2: The New York Times has fleshed out their initial report with these interesting details:
Mr. Hurwitz went on to say that he and Ron Howard, the director and producer who was the “Arrested Development” narrator, “had been talking about this for ages and trying to get this going.”
Mr. Hurwitz continued: “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. In fact, where everyone’s been for five years became a big part of the story. So in working on the screenplay, I found even if I just gave five minutes per character to that back story, we were halfway through the movie before the characters got together.”
So, Mr. Hurwitz said: “We’re trying to do a limited-run series into the movie.” After a wave of excited applause died down, he continued: “We’re basically hoping to do 9 or 10 episodes, with almost one character per episode.”
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, Massachusetts, 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.’”
Thanks to Morgan Burt for the tip.
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