Via the MTV Movie Blog comes the confirmation from Jason Bateman that an Arrested Development movie is indeed on the way, and he also talked a bit about what we can expect from it.
“It’s typically bent and twisted,” Bateman said of the story concocted by series mastermind Mitchell Hurwitz. “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.”
I can’t friggin’ wait to see what this movie is about and if it will end up being any good. Getting the entire cast back together in like a dream come true.
The holdup right now is money.
“We all want to do it. All the actors want to do it, the writers want to do it, and the boss wants to do it. And they are working on making a deal, probably as we speak,” Bateman said. “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. They can’t spend the money they spent on ‘Hancock.’
“So they have to shoot it for a small price, and we have to figure out if we can do it for that price,” he continued. “They’re working it out, and hopefully we’ll be able to know something in the next month.”
Read more of the news about the AD movie over on the MTV Movie Blog.
This is such good news! If someone is looking for a TV on DVD show to watch… AD is the show to start with…
having just finished this series on HDNet (thanks to the advice of Mike and Jina!), we are jacked about an arrested development movie coming to fruition.
Kory, did you love it? I mean, how original and funny is that series? The writing was incredible!
“I just blue myself.”
we absolutely loved it! Cannot believe we did not watch this the first time around. this kind of comedy was right in line with what we like.
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