Fans of Arrested Development have been waiting years for another season of the dysfunctional Bluth family. The show returned for a fourth season on Netflix back in 2013, but it wasn't what a lot of fans were expecting. Season 4 was a Rashomon-style narrative that kept the Bluths separate for quite a long time, and viewers missed out on that dysfunctional dynamic that was so entertaining. Well, those who didn't love the style of Season 4 are in luck. Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz has remixed Season 4 into something new. Here's how he describes the remix:

The new twist on the fourth season will be called Arrested Development Season 4 Remix: Fateful Consequences, and fans don't have to wait much longer to see it. The 22 episodes of the remix will be available streaming on Friday, May 4 at 12:01 a.m. PT. If you want to experience Season 4 in a way that is similar to Seasons 1 - 3, you'll have your chance starting this weekend. It may not be Season 5, but it's something new.

Remixing 15 episodes in 22 episodes couldn't have been an easy task, even if Mitch Hurwitz was at least partially motivated by the hope of syndication someday. A lot happened in Season 4 that took the characters in very different directions, so cutting the story apart and then back together in some cohesive way had to be tricky. It should be interesting to see how the recut Season 4 compares both to the original Season 4 and the first three seasons of the series.

Even for fans who have already watched Season 4 more than once, the remix sounds like it should be worth watching. Of course, news of a remixed batch of existing episodes is probably not the Arrested Development news that diehard fans were hoping for at this point. After TV legend Henry Winkler recently dropped a hint that Season 5 would hit the web at some point this summer, the big Arrested Development question has been when new episodes would premiere. Mitch Hurwitz went on in his Facebook statement to say this about Season 5:

Well, Mitch Hurwitz didn't go so far as to reveal when exactly we can expect the new season of Arrested Development on Netflix, but fans apparently won't have too much longer to wait, and Jason Bateman has already made a bold claim about what's to come. I'm guessing that the premiere date will be released on May 4 along with Arrested Development Season 4 Remix: Fateful Consequences, although only time will tell. For now, you can watch the first four seasons of Arrested Development streaming on Netflix. If you're still in the market for other series, take a look at our 2018 Netflix guide and our summer TV premiere schedule.

Considering Season 4 of Arrested Development landed on Netflix with an entirely different narrative and structure than the seasons that fans grew to love in the series’ years on Fox, it was truly hard to predict what creator Mitch Hurwitz would conceive for Season 5. (Assuming Season 5 would even exist.) Understandably, the biggest hurdle for the show is getting the gigantic cast signed on and scheduled, but once that happens, Hurwitz has revealed the in-development Season 5 will essentially be a serialized murder mystery. I’m betting they catch the culprit blue-handed!

If you’ll recall, the Season 4 finale ended on Buster getting arrested for the murder of Lucille 2, who had gone missing during the Cinco de Cuatro celebration (after smacking Michael), leaving behind only a pool of blood at the bottom of the stair car. (The episode also ended on G.O.B. possibly taking a sex date with another man, but that part wasn’t mentioned.) And as some suspected, Season 5 will center on the investigation surrounding her disappearance/murder, which will certainly not go smoothly, particularly if the cops on the case are the ones we’ve seen on the show in the past. Hot Cops are always welcome, though.

When he first came up with the concept, Hurwitz says he had no idea that the true crime genre was going to become so popular, according to Deadline. Thanks to the podcast Serial, the HBO docuseries The Jinx and, most recently, the excellent Netflix series Making a Murderer, people can’t get enough of longform looks at memorable crimes. Is the possible murder of Lucille Austero on the same page as those other projects? It certainly can be, since Arrested Development is full of characters that could serve as suspects. But I seriously doubt Buster had anything to do with it, unless there’s hook DNA found on the scene.

The popularity of murder mysteries isn’t the only coincidence that Hurwitz has come across when putting together ideas for Season 5. Season 4 saw Linsdsay running for Congress as a Republican on a platform of putting up a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, but to extend that idea further is to basically ape the controversial early campaign of Donald Trump. As well, Hurwitz had planned on getting George Sr. to turn into a woman to change up his relationship with Michael and the rest, but then actor Jeffrey Tambor took on the starring role in Transparent as a man transitioning into a woman. Perhaps Hurwitz should be the subject of a cable reality show about an entertainment psychic.

Season 4 had its share of naysayers, which is fine, since it had to make some big changes in order to exist in the first place. Hurwitz is going into the writing of Season 5 knowing that, so perhaps compromises can be made to make everyone satisfied. Those looking to see Hurwitz and Will Arnett working together before then will be happy to know that Netflix will be putting out the duo’s new show Flaked later this year. Here’s hoping we’ll get more Arrested Development before 2017.

For my money, which was all acquired through legal means not tied to selling model houses to Iraqis, Arrested Development is in the top-tier of TV comedies and cemented its place up there from the very beginning. A lot of the laughs come from esteemed actor Jeffrey Tambor, who played the expertly shady patriarch George Bluth, and show creator Mitch Hurwitz puts one of Tambor’s ad-libs in the pilot episode as the best of the show’s run. That’s definitely something to chicken-dance about.

Tambor is the subject of an excellent article over at GQ that highlights the more genius points of his career, and when the subject shifted to the Fox-turned-Netflix comedy, Hurwitz brings up the excellent improvisation that gave the episode one of its best lines. As the cops were arriving at the boat party, Hurwitz gave Tambor a phone and told him to pretend to tell his Bluth Company secretary to get rid of damning documents. And then this:

“Why are you crying?” is such a perfect line that it seems like it should have been written by someone who thought about it for an hour or more. (There’s some kind of math to go along with that assumption, but the equation is in the cooler of evidence.) It’s well-known that the role of George Sr. was supposed to be one of a limited capacity, but Tambor’s stellar performance convinced Hurwitz to further develop the character. (A similar thing happened with David Cross’ Tobias.) And after four seasons of watching the sometimes-jailed, sometimes-free eldest Bluth fight to keep his marriage and family life thriving, the idea of having less Tambor feels like a bigger crime than treason.

Thankfully, we’ll be getting to see a double dose of Tambor’s boundless comedic work in 2016. At the currently ongoing TCA summer event, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos assured everyone that Season 5 of Arrested Development is definitely in motion, with negotiations underway for all involved. (Scheduling will be the biggest conflict where that’s concerned.) And we’ll also get to see the actor return to his Emmy-nominated role on the Emmy-nominated Amazon series Transparent when Season 3 hits. For now, we’re just waiting patiently for Season 2 to hit the streaming service.

At 71 years old, Tambor is proving that age can have very little to do with how successful one’s career can be. And we can’t wait to see and hear where his improvising will go next.

You just can’t keep Will Arnett off of television, and anyone who tries should have to spend a week or two working for Gob Bluth. A few months after CBS’ unceremonious cancellation of his sitcom The Millers, Arnett is reteaming with Netflix and Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz for the live-action drama-tinged comedy Flaked. Can we get please J.B. Smoove and Margo Martindale on this one, too?

Set to run across the course of eight episodes, Flaked will star Arnett as the honesty-avoiding, sobriety-leaning Chip, a Venice, California resident who builds himself up as a life guru. Once he begins falling in love with the woman that his best friend desires, Chip finds his falsified foundations crumbling as dark truths are unearthed. This leaves his vastly important image in a negative spotlight, and he’ll probably learn something about himself by the time all is said and done.

Nobody does self-important like Will Arnett, so it should be no surprise that he co-created and co-wrote the series, along with Mark Chappel, one of the co-writers on the David Cross-created comedy The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. (More Arrested Development quasi-connections!) Hurwitz, who has an overall deal with Netflix, will be on board as an executive producer. All of these guys working together means Flaked will probably be comedic gold, but the press release does refer to it as a “serio-comedy,” so maybe there will be one crying scene that has nothing to do with Arnett’s character.

Flaked is the second Netflix series Arnett will front, as he’s already the lead of the hilarious R-rated animated comedy BoJack Horseman, which is going into Season 2 later this year. Oddly enough, that show was also about someone whose self-perpetuated lies ended up coming to the surface as the season went on, making for some surprisingly mature moments sprinkled in all the drunken debauchery. Here’s hoping Flaked takes that to an even deeper place.

I’m sure Arnett feels a lot more at home with Netflix, without the risk of abrupt cancellations hanging over his head. The Millers was four episodes into Season 2 when CBS decided to pull the plug, not just removing the possibility of a Season 3, but also yanking the show from the schedule after five episodes. (Canada got to see the Thanksgiving-themed sixth episode.) Netflix will be putting all eight episodes of Flaked up at once, and there’s no better guarantee than that.

Flaked – which joins an upcoming slate of Netflix comedies including the Wet Hot American Summer series, Richie Rich, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and more – is set to premiere across all of Netflix’s territories in 2016. Now let’s talk about turning that LEGO Batman movie into a Netflix series.

While Netflix’s original programming release schedule may never resemble the way television has traditionally doled things out, their approach towards creating content is slowly following in TV’s footsteps. Case in point: the streaming giant signed a multi-year deal with writer-producer Mitch Hurwitz, best known for creating the cult masterpiece Arrested Development, a series I’d like to take the rest of this article to talk about but can’t properly justify that behavior. Seriously though, is this what has to happen to get Season 5 in production?

There’s a chance Hurwitz may not even have time to get into that, at least right away, as Deadline reports he and his banner The Hurwitz Company will officially be creating and producing new comedies for Netflix for at least the next two years. It won’t only be inside jobs though, as Hurwitz will be looking to develop series with other creators in a non-writing capacity, though he would still be an executive producer and consultant.

This is a case of two factions understanding the huge potential embedded in collaboration. Hurwitz and Netflix first worked together in bringing fans Arrested Development’s long-awaited Season 4, which suffered in part due to the ensemble cast’s scheduling issues, but was still an amazingly dense and darkly hilarious season of television; and one that brought a ton of new subscribers to the service. Hurwitz has been very positive about the experience, commending Netflix’s pioneering ways.

“It is incredibly inspiring to get to produce for Netflix,” Hurwitz told Deadline, “a company that not only doesn’t resist change but is leaps and bounds ahead of everyone in forging it. The fact that I’m also getting one month of their streaming right to my TV or Xbox free…well, it really takes the sting out of buying that Xbox.”

Always the jester, Hurwitz will hopefully carve out a comedic niche that Netflix hasn’t quite nailed down yet. Their upcoming comedy slate is limited to the next two seasons of the riotous Canadian series Trailer Park Boys and Marta Kaufman’s Grace and Frankie, with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin starring. It’ll take some pretty hilarious content to compete with flagship programs like Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, and if we’re talking the future, Marvel’s four upcoming series and the Wachowski’s Sense8 are bound to be certifiable buzz-nabbers. Not that Netflix needs to be tonally balanced to succeed, obviously, but it’s easy to greedily want their quality control attributed to all genres.

So what will Hurwitz bring to the table? His pre-A.D. credits go back to writing for The Golden Girls and The John Larroquette Show, along with creating The Ellen Show and several short-lived Fox comedies. He’s got good connections all around, as even his limited acting gigs were for quality series like Community and Workaholics. Catch him as the motivationally motivated Cool Eric below.

One of the undeveloped holy grails of TV comedy in the last decade was 2007’s The Thick of It pilot adaptation that Hurwitz wrote with frequent collaborator Richard Day, with Spinal Tap’s Christopher Guest directing. Granted, The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci successfully Americanized his own format with HBO’s future classic Veep, but I’d be interested to see Hurwitz bring that concept back in some capacity.

And of course, there’s always another season of Arrested Development, which I don’t think we’ve talked about yet.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Mitch Hurwitz says plans for an Arrested Development movie are moving forward, and he’d love for it to be followed by a new season of original episodes on Netflix.

Déjà vu, right?

The latest outlet to pick up the AD ball and run with it is the notoriously unreliable Showbiz 411, which even butchers its facts in this Development report by stating that the movie would lead into “season 3” following the movie. [EDITOR’S NOTE: Roger Friedman went back into his own story to correct his error after it was pointed out in the comments section that season three of Arrested Development already happened.]

But Friedman ran into Hurwitz and actor John Slattery at the Governor’s Ball where he landed this juicy scoop, confirming from the proverbial horse’s mouth that Slattery would return for the film. Slattery played Dr. Norman in multiple episodes of the show’s fourth season. His character, Doctor Norman, is described on the program’s Wikia page as “a drug-addicted disgraced anesthesiologist who befriends Oscar Bluth (Jeffrey Tambor) in the southern Californian desert” who later “tries to give George some medical advice.”

Now, conversation surrounding a fifth season of Arrested Development has been around for a while. We reported on it back in July. And it makes a ton of sense, as the fourth season was successful (by Netflix’s standards) when it was released in its entirety last May.

But the Arrested movie … now that’s a topic that has been around FOREVER. We said, in a 2008 headline, that the movie was “about to happen.” Obviously, it didn’t. We revisited the project every time Hurwitz brought it up. In fact, it became such an issue for the poor Arrested Development stars to handle inquiries from fans and press about a movie that Jason Bateman often had to dance through junkets for other movies answering questions like this:

So take all of this “news” with a grain of salt, as we have been told time and again that the Arrested Development movie was developing (no pun intended), but have yet to see an actual movie on a screen in a theater. To me, it’s kind of like Star Wars: Episode VII. I won’t believe it’s actually happening until I see it on the marquee at a neighborhood multiplex.

Will the Arrested Development movie ever happen? That's been the question before and after the fourth season of the beloved Fox comedy landed on Netflix. From what series creator Mitch Hurwitz says, it's looking like the answer is yes. Or hopefully, anyway. While Hurwitz notes that he doesn't own the property outright and seems reluctant to confirm with all certainty that the movie is a go, he did say that he's working on it now and he sounds optimistic that the film could happen.

Seven years after its final episode of Arrested Development aired on Fox, Arrested Development made a major comeback, thanks in part to Netflix. The subscription video service debuted all fifteen episodes of the comedy series' fourth season in May, bringing the Bluths (and Funkes) back to the small screen. While the fourth season did update us on what's been going on with the dysfunctional family in the sizable gap between seasons, it left off unresolved, leaving fans to wonder when we'd see the next installment, and whether or not that would be on the big or small screen. From what Hurwitz Rolling Stone that he's working on the movie right now:

Hurwitz goes on to express hope that the movie will happen "as soon as possible," but he's hesitant to speculate on exactly when, as he doesn't want to put false information out there. "Right now, I'm trying to do something else for Netflix and a movie project and things. I'm always sort of superstitious about talking about this stuff before it happens. It's the best way to guarantee it doesn't happen."

That seems like a realistic way to approach the situation, lest he unintentionally string fans along for what could be a while (but hopefully won't). Cast availability will likely be an issue, as it was for the series' fourth season. Bringing the entire cast back together for Season 4 was surely tricky, given the stars' other commitments. While that will likely be the case again for the film, Hurwitz did point out that it may be more doable to get them back together for the movie, considering the shorter commitment required to make a film, by comparison to the six-month commitment required for a TV season. It's with that in mind that I feel much more optimistic about the prospect of a movie coming next, as opposed to another season on Netflix. If there was one notable area where Season 4 fell short, it was how divided the cast was. Breaking up the episodes by character plot was likely the best solution possible to deal with the cast's limited availability -- and how all of the character plots and events braided together from the beginning of the season to the end was seriously impressive -- but there was a noticeable shortage of moments were more than two or three lead characters were in a scene together at the same time. And given the chemistry of the cast, that was disappointing. If the film does get off the ground, hopefully the cast's schedules will allow them to film more scenes together.

In the meantime, Rolling Stone says Hurwitz's ultimate goal is to make the film and then do another season of the series. I imaging imagine that would suit fans just fine, especially if it means getting the Bluths back together for more antics. If you agree, feel free to celebrate this update by rocking out with the FakeBlock app.

"It's been our great joy to bring this to you on Netflix, where you can access it whenever and however you want," Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurtwitz said, in the thank you letter he wrote to his fans and enemies this weekend. "Except, you know it's really meant to be watched in order. And you really should watch them all, because they build and I'm just saying, 'eventually,' if you can. All 15."

I don't think many fans are going to have a hard time watching all 15 episodes. I'm up to episode 5 and they only seem to get better with each installment! But watching in order is certainly good advice. The series jumps around a bit but there's definitely a slow build happening, with clues and teases dropped about other characters in each episode.

The thank you letter, which you can view in its bigger form below (click the thumbnail) or over on the Arrested Development Facebook page, comes from Hurwitz, on behalf of everyone involved in bringing Arrested Development back for its fourth season, which made its grand debut early this morning, in its entirety, on Netflix. "But really, this is yours now," Hurwitz tells his fans. "Except for the obvious copyright issues. And you have to subscribe to Netflix. So it's not completely yours, I guess."

It's nice of Hurwitz to take the time to literally pen a letter to fans and thank them for the support they've shown the series over the years. If the series' return tells us one thing, it's that a show cancelled nearly a decade ago still has the chance to come back if people want it badly. And so far, the buzz about the new episodes has been positive, though it'll be interesting to see more reactions to the season as a whole once more people have the chance to view it.

Speaking of which, we're sharing our reactions to the series episode by episode. Check out our (spoiler-filled) recaps here!

With an entire new season of Arrested Development premiering on Netflix in just a few months, you'd think that the Bluth faithful would be satisfied with that. But noooooo, we keep having to ask for the movie that creator Mitch Hurwitz has been talking about for years, and which could theoretically follow up whatever we learn about the family in the new season. Is the Arrested Development still possible? Sure. Should you keep harping on it? Eh, probably not.

Speaking at a SXSW panel about the upcoming Arrested Development season, coming to Netflix in May, Hurwitz said that "we very much want to do [a movie]," but that the focus ought to be entirely on the series for now. "We have nothing else right now," he said, before giving the familiar explanation of why they turned the story they developed into a series instead of a movie to begin with. Here's the highlight, via Indiewire:

Will Arnett, also sitting in on the panel, then chimed in: "We do have these 14 episodes that are about to air, and people are already mad that we don't have the other -- nobody's even seen these. Let's just enjoy this for now."

Reading between the lines a bit, it sounds like Hurwitz and everyone else wants to wait and see how the new episodes are received before pushing forward on the movie-- a smart strategy not just for business, but for creators who are presenting a product that fans have been demanding for nearly a decade. What if the new episodes don't live up to fan expectations? What if they set the story off in a direction we don't want to see? I know a lot of fans assume the show can do no wrong, but Hurwitz's TV efforts since Arrested ended-- Running Wilde and Sit Down Shut Up-- haven't been nearly as well-received. It may sound like Hurwitz is just trying to deprive us of more Bluths, but for now he seems pretty smart for hedging his bets.

There is finally an end in sight for the return of Arrested Development on Netflix, and when the show does arrive it seems we can expect it to have a somewhat different feel and flow than the original episodes. Seven years after being axed by Fox, the show’s cast and crew will give it new life and a new rhythm, as well.

Creator Michael Hurwitz shared some information (and vague spoilers!) on the changes made to the show’s new episodes, which will appear all at once in Netflix’s streaming library this May. According to USA Today, Hurwitz says the episodes--and we can expect somewhere in the realm of 13 or 14 of them, more than the 10 originally planned--will follow a different format than the original series. Where Arrested Development’s older episodes feature meshing storylines and flashbacks that jump around in time and from character to character, the new episodes will focus on a single character at a time. The reason for this is mainly the availability of the original cast, who all are involved with other projects.

The new episodes will tell the stories of each family member since the series ended, from their flight from the law to where they are in the present. As the episodes unfold, the connections between the stories will be revealed, making the entire season “like a giant Arrested Development” that is “tailored for Netflix.” With the entire season available at once, the viewing experience will be more like watching a movie with episodes flowing into each other.

The entire cast will finally appear together in the final episode, which Hurwitz says is meant to lead into a planned movie. Whether that will happen remains up in the air, but we'll keep you posted.

On the subject of the premiere, TVLine says Netflix confirmed a May release at the TCA press tour today, though no specific date was mentioned. Last week, May 4 was the reported premiere date, but that may not be accurate, though reports of 14 episodes does line up with the previously reported information.

Here's the bad news: the Arrested Development movie, even after all the hemming and hawing and promises and hope and dreams and money in the banana stand, is still not a guarantee. Even with the entire cast back together in Southern California and shooting new episodes that will air on Netflix, even with Gob back on his Segway and Tobias back in the jean cutoffs, we have no idea if the 10-to-13 new episodes will actually lead to the movie we've been promised for years.

Yeah, I know, it's a shame, especially after the euphoria of the set photos that proved it wasn't all just a fantasy. But you should also know that creator Mitch Hurwitz still has hope for the movie, and you should too. In an interview with Vulture, mostly about the TV episodes they're currently shooting for Netflix, Hurwitz confirmed what we've thought was the plan all along: the 10, or possibly 13, episodes of the show for Netflix would be the setup for the potential movie. And it's the movie they're all still eager to make:

In the official announcement that Netflix would air the new Arrested Development movie, they made no mention of movie rights, and Netflix has yet to venture into feature film production. And since the Netflix deal came through, neither Hurwitz or Ron Howard or anyone else associated with the production has talked about the nitty gritty of production, whether 20th Century Fox would try to get behind the movie that they first aired on TV, or whether they would be producing the movie independently (Ron Howard probably has the cash to do it).

But what I"m rooting for is for the Arrested Development movie to become the first feature film that Netflix ever produces on its own. When the new episodes air early next year, keep a close eye on how successful they become for the company-- they've just started moving into TV production, and feature films might be the next obvious step. After all, HBO has produced its own feature films for years, and it started off essentially like Netflix, a paid subscription that gave you access to movies that other people had already made. The ways that we watch movies and TV shows are changing rapidly, and Arrested Development was an example of one of those big changes, when people discovered the show on DVD and made it a much bigger hit than it had been on the air. If Arrested then breaks new ground in how movies are made, it somehow wouldn't surprise me at all.

It should come as no surprise that there are many parties interested in airing the proposed Arrested Development mini-series announced by creator Mitch Hurwitz at last week’s New Yorker festival. The hilarious show lives on Netflix and Hulu as one of the most watched series of both platforms despite it’s cancellation by Fox in 2006 after just three seasons.

This new mini-season will run about nine episodes, one for each of the returning characters--George, Lucille, Buster, Gob, Lindsay, Tobias, Maeby, George Michael, and everybody’s favorite patriarch Michael Bluth (No joy for Franklin Delano Bluth, though). Showtime is again poking its head into the situation, as it did when AD was looking for a home in 2006, along with Netflix who is already branching out into creating its own content and looking to use this a stepping stone. And IFC recently joined the fray as well. In a bit of a surprise move though, Vulture is reporting that failing online video hub Hulu is now part of the bidding war for the series.

It’s no secret that Hulu is running on its last legs already as it continues to lose partners and subscribers, so this push to get new AD episodes will likely be a last ditch effort to hook people into their service. The fear is that they’ll bury the series as a Hulu Plus only series meaning that normal folk like you and me won’t be able to watch the new episodes without signing up for their $7.99/month service. Not that this is a bad value, they have a pretty solid amount of content, and this opens doors to watching newer episodes of shows, something Netflix can’t keep up with. But for people who already pay $7.99 for the Netflix streaming service, another service that does basically the same thing isn’t an appealing expense.

However, Arrested Development has garnered over 100 million hits on Hulu which will certainly be appealing for advertisers, which would allow Hulu to make their money without taking more of ours. It is unlikely that Hulu will be able to pony up the kind of cash it’s going to take to get the distribution rights, but at this point anything can happen.

The whole situation is still up in the air. Hurwitz et al. have been promising a return to the Arrested Development universe for years now and parading the cast around on stage isn’t enough to make me believe it’s actually going to happen. With the cast’s enthusiasm about the show it’d be great to see it come back, but until we see set photos and trailers, we’ll remain as skeptical as we ever were.

In the many, many years we've been promised an Arrested Development movie, Ron Howard has been just as bad as anybody else as swearing up and down that the movie was about to happen, while never being accountable when the project failed to materialize. But given creator Mitch Hurwitz's recent bombshell announcement about both the movie and a return to television, it seems safe to start listening to Howard again, since everyone else seems convinced it's really happening this time.

And just in time to be a font of wisdom yet again, Ron Howard visited G4's Attack of the Show and dropped a few details, including the fact that the mini-return to television is just to set up the necessary back story for the movie.Check out this clip in which he explains all:

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So basically, the TV show is going to be the boring prequel part when you see everyone get to where they're supposed to be, and the movie is going to be when the Bluths are finally together again and making each others' lives miserable. The problem being, of course, that the Bluths are really only themselves when sitting in Lucille's living room or sprawling around the kitchen of the model home, getting in each others hair and doing stupid chicken dances. It sounds like they're saving all of that stuff-- i.e., the good stuff-- for the movie, which gets rid of my worry that the TV show would be worthwhile and the movie intolerable.

I'm still skeptical about this ever actually happening, as years of crying wolf ought to make a person. But if Ron Howard keeps giving candid interviews like this, we can at least dig out more details until they inevitably delay the whole thing again in a few months.

Yeah, we know. You’re tired of hearing about the Arrested Development movie because it’s been talked about for so long that there’s virtually no way that it could actually happen. We’re just as tired of it as you are, but this news comes from someone with kind of a lot of clout in the industry, the show’s producer and narrator Ron Howard.

Howard spoke with ComingSoon during a promo tour for his film The Dilemma and had this to say about Mitch Hurwitz and the AD film:

This by no means says that we’ll definitely going to see this film anytime soon, just that they’re still trying regardless of all the issues they’ve had up until now. Persistence has worked in the past, however, so maybe if they keep pushing for it eventually the stars will align and every piece of the puzzle will fit together. Until then, don’t get your hopes up.