There’s going to be an Arrested Development movie!

By TJ | August 11, 2008

This news is over a month old, sometimes i feel like i am the last person in the world to find stuff out.. but i am so beside myself with excitement, that i can’t not post about it.

The show was cancelled in early 2006. It doesn’t work in my head how this could be.
The show is so very funny… and clever.
i think that’s the problem.. it is too clever for the majority of the dumb arse public to understand, so they decide it sucks and change the channel.

Shame on the masses… Shame!

Anyway, Jason Bateman (who plays Michael Bluth) said back in June that we will almost certainly see Arrested Development on the big screen.. but at this stage, it is not a matter of IF.. but WHEN.

What’s the hold up? - $$$ Money $$$

“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.”

So far, IMDB doesn’t really have any info about it, but i’ll be checking back there to see if i can catch any more goss now and then.

I really hope some rich fucker with a developed enough of a sense of humor gives them all the money they need to make this happen.
It would be a real shame to waste such a great opportunity.

Source: MTV.com/movies