Arrested Development follows the dysfunctional Bluth family and features the talents of actors Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, John F. Beard, and Mae Whitman. Despite critical acclaim, the series never caught on with a big audience.
Almost immediately following the show’s cancellation, rumors of a reunion movie started to surface. The project started to pick up steam in late 2008. Supposedly, series creator Mitch Hurwitz got a greenlight and the cast all said they’d like to do it. That was more than a year ago and there’s been little word since.
Last week, Cross told TV Squad that he thought the long-awaited project was dead. He said, “Way too much time it’s been… I mean, there’s so many people involved. Everyone’s doing their own thing, you know. And everybody’s aged. It’s just not going to happen. I’m sure I speak for everybody when I say we’d love for it to happen, we’d love to work on it, but just I don’t think… not going to happen.”
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Bateman disagrees. He told the LA Times, “David says that it’s dead, but it’s not dead at all.” As nice as that sounds, it doesn’t seem to be high on anyone’s priority list either.
Bateman confirmed that there are a lot of hurdles to overcome before it can happen. He said, “Mitch Hurwitz is busy shooting a new pilot with Will Arnett, and perhaps when they’re done shooting and editing and he’s delivered that, perhaps he’ll jump into writing the script. Once the script is done, it goes to the studio and they decide if it’s a script they want to make, and the actors will decide if they want to be in it.”
“It’s a long process. But it could happen and it’s still in everybody’s plans for it to happen.”
What do you think? Will the Arrested Development movie ever be made? At this point, will enough people care?
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