Saturday
15Nov2008
Ron Howard Holding Out Hope for 'Arrested Development' Movie
Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 8:00AM
The more I read about it, the more convinced I am that
we will have an
Arrested Development movie in the next couple
of years. It gained steam earlier this week when
Jeffrey Tambor said that he'd
been contacted by the show's creator,
Mitchell Hurwitz, just days before to
discuss the project. But he's just one of the actors; they don't make the
decisions in cases like this.
"The reason there's been so much back and forth is... well, for two reasons, is the business understanding coming from the studio side was not clear, so even though we were wanting to do it and said, 'Yeah, maybe we could' but things weren't defined. I think that's really come into focus in the last week or so. Mitch's full-on commitment to not only write it but direct it is something he's been wrestling with. He's been launching a TV show at the same time, so he couldn't let it really be at the forefront of his mind creatively. It is now. He seems very committed."
Howard adds, "We still don't have a script. Yeah, he's got some great ideas, and the cast seemed very excited about it and I certainly am. I'm very, very hopeful—more hopeful now than ever—that it's really going to happen."
And there you go. When the guy who calls the shots over at Imagine Entertainment says he's hopeful a project can come together, it's probably going to come together. For a number of reasons, I wonder if the film can still be as vital as it would have been three years ago, but I'm taking Howard's lead on this and calling myself more hopeful now than ever.
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