It’s been rumoured for so long that we had pretty much given up hope of ever seeing it, but today it looks like the movie version of Arrested Development – one of the finest and most original sitcoms of the last 20 years – will actually happen.
The show’s creator, Mitch Hurwitz, has signed a deal with Fox Searchlight and Imagine that will see him write and direct the movie, which will continue the story of the Bluths, the most dysfunctional family you’re ever likely to see.
Imagine big cheese, Ron Howard, who of course narrated the TV show, has also closed a deal that will see him assist Hurwitz in some way. We’re not sure yet what that means, but anything that gets Arrested Development up on the big screen is ok in our book.
So, at long last, it seems that Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Jeffrey Tambor, Will Arnett, Jessica Walter, Portia De Rossi, David Cross and Tony Harper can stop their public lobbying for the movie to get off the ground, for the Bluths – so maddeningly cancelled ahead of its time by Fox after only three increasingly truncated series – are back. Probably. Frankly, we won’t believe it until we see it.