This time, the rumours are true
October 4th 2011 06:34
... or at least, it certainly looks like they are! In July last year I blogged about the long-awaited Arrested Development movie being, in the words of Will Arnett, "on like Donkey Kong" - fast forward fifteen months or so and that rumour appears to have been confirmed.
"It's true," came the tweet from lead actor Jason Bateman, a.k.a Michael Bluth. "We will do 10 episodes and the movie. Probably shoot them all together next summer for a release in early '13. VERY excited!"
According to the show's creator Mitch Hurwitz, the entire cast has been on board for some time, but they've been unable to get the project off the ground due to copyright issues, broadcast rights, and the (unfortunately, all too important) matter of who owns what.
"We don’t completely own the property, there are business people involved and studios and that kind of thing," Hurwitz told the audience at a New Yorker festival event that reunited the Arrested Development cast on Sunday.
"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.”
And so came the decision to film nine or ten TV episodes as a lead-up to the actual movie, with each episode focusing on one character's movements of the last five years.
As for the rumour that it was Michael Cera who was causing the filming of the movie to be delayed? Not true, says Hurwitz - that was all just an inside joke gone wrong.
"I kind of was perpetuating a little thing, like, wouldn’t it be funny if Michael Cera was the holdout. Let’s put that out there. And Michael had that Andy Kaufman thing. And then it really turned ugly, quickly. So I really just have to say, for those of you that have been following this saga, Michael’s always been great."
("Actually, I do have a thing," Cera said - jokingly, of course!)
As for the production schedule, it's still not set in stone just yet, but I'll keep you updated on what's happening with the new episodes and movie as soon as I found out myself. To read more, check out this New York Times article here.
And it's not just a movie... there's new episodes in the pipeline too.
"It's true," came the tweet from lead actor Jason Bateman, a.k.a Michael Bluth. "We will do 10 episodes and the movie. Probably shoot them all together next summer for a release in early '13. VERY excited!"
According to the show's creator Mitch Hurwitz, the entire cast has been on board for some time, but they've been unable to get the project off the ground due to copyright issues, broadcast rights, and the (unfortunately, all too important) matter of who owns what.
"We don’t completely own the property, there are business people involved and studios and that kind of thing," Hurwitz told the audience at a New Yorker festival event that reunited the Arrested Development cast on Sunday.
"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.”
And so came the decision to film nine or ten TV episodes as a lead-up to the actual movie, with each episode focusing on one character's movements of the last five years.
As for the rumour that it was Michael Cera who was causing the filming of the movie to be delayed? Not true, says Hurwitz - that was all just an inside joke gone wrong.
"I kind of was perpetuating a little thing, like, wouldn’t it be funny if Michael Cera was the holdout. Let’s put that out there. And Michael had that Andy Kaufman thing. And then it really turned ugly, quickly. So I really just have to say, for those of you that have been following this saga, Michael’s always been great."
("Actually, I do have a thing," Cera said - jokingly, of course!)
As for the production schedule, it's still not set in stone just yet, but I'll keep you updated on what's happening with the new episodes and movie as soon as I found out myself. To read more, check out this New York Times article here.
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