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05Oct2009

'Arrested Development' Script Finally Being Written

DateMonday, October 5, 2009 at 5:38PM
We finally have concrete news about the Arrested Development movie, namely that creator Mitch Hurwitz is developing the script. He's working with one of the show's executive producers, James Vallely, on the screenplay, and Hurwitz has been named the director, according to a new Reuters report.

Now, we have been on this story for well over a year now, and the headline is pretty much always the same. In fact, the Vallely announcement isn't all that new, and I think most people assumed the script was already in some stage of development. So, for those of you who did make an ass out of u and me, this might actually be a step backward for the time being.

However, Hurwitz says he wasn't going to start writing a script unless/until all the cast members were locked in to return. Particularly troublesome in that deparment was Michael Cera, who until mid-year had said he didn't see much point in a movie. But Year One sure did prove to be a fruitful project for him, didn't it?

Fox Searchlight will distribute and produce the film, which Jason Bateman has said would be a really low budget affair, at least by film standards. The expense of shooting each episode was one of the reasons Fox couldn't keep the show on the air for even three full seasons. The only real question is how well the movie will be received five or six years after the show went off the air.

Certainly, there's going to be a larger pool of potential audience members thanks to the show's DVD sales and syndication schedule, but will they turn out for a movie version of a show that's not on the air anymore? The time off definitely didn't help the second X-Files movie, and that show was a far bigger hit than the chronicles of the Bluth family ever was.

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