ARReSTeD DeVeLOPMeNT MoVie

Sad Banana

2011-11-29T14:48:00.001-08:00

Hey T-Bone !

Sad news for all the fans, Patrice O'Neal also known as T-Bone in AD just died tuesday morning as a result of a stroke. R.I.P T-Bone, your were one of the first guest in Arrested Development, don't worry the fans will never forget you. He was 41.

Comedian Patrice O'Neal died Tuesday morning ... as a result of a stroke he suffered back in October ... this according to his friends at the "Opie and Anthony" radio show.
O'Neal had been a staple in the comedy world for years -- and performed at the "Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen" back in September.

O'Neal was a regular guest on the "Opie and Anthony" radio show -- and appeared on several TV shows such as "Chappelle Show," "The Office," and "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn."

Opie just tweeted, "Yes it's true that our pal Patrice O'Neal has passed away. The funniest and best thinker I've ever known PERIOD."

O'Neal was 41.

UPDATE

10:33 AM PST -- Patrice's rep, Matt Frost, tells TMZ ... "It is with terrible sadness we must report that Patrice O’Neal has passed away this morning at 7:00 AM due to the complications of the stroke he suffered on October 19.

Frost adds, "Many of us have lost a close and loved friend; all of us have lost a true comic genius. His mother, who was also his best friend, was at his side. Patrice is survived by his wife, Vondecarlo; his step daughter Aymilyon, sister Zinder, and his mother Georgia.

"The family wishes to thank all of the fans and friends who have expressed an outpouring of love and support for Patrice these past weeks. We ask that you please respect the family’s request for privacy at this difficult time."

Source : TMZ

Best Of : The Chicken Dance

2011-11-21T09:51:00.001-08:00

Has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken?

Here is a new category on the blog, sometimes I'll publish an article about the best of Arrested Development and today it's about the famous Chicken Dance ! The chicken dance is maybe my favorite running gag of the show, I can't get enough of GOB imitating the chicken in Mexico. If you wan't to watch a best of of the chicken dance, this video is made for you :

So you've always wanted to imitate perfectly the chicken like GOB, Lindsay, George Sr. or Lucille ? Don't be afraid anymore, follow the instructions right after this message !

Now you know how to imitate the chicken perfectly, you can also leave a comment to tell me which Bluth makes your favorite imitation of the chicken ?

Co-co-co-co-co-co !

Netflix Development

2011-11-19T06:46:00.001-08:00

I just Bluth myself...

News of the day ! Now it's more than official, it's a reality ladies and gentleman, Arrested Development will have a season 4 who's going to be aired on Netflix early 2013.

Since the beginning of the blog these last months are the most exciting with all the great news. As usual you can read an article about this news :

Netflix is licensing new episodes of the TV series "Arrested Development" from 20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Television.

The sides struck a deal with the streaming service that will launch new episodes of the Emmy-winning comedy in early 2013, the studio confirmed.

The prospect of "Development" returning in both TV and film forms was raised last month when the show's creator, Mitch Hurwitz, announced in an appearance at the New Yorker Festival that he was intent on reuniting the series' original actors, including Jason Bateman and Will Arnett, for another go-round.

"Arrested" had a critically acclaimed run on Fox from 2003-2006, but the network canceled the series given its ratings were always modest at best.

All of the series regulars have expressed interest in returning and are expected back, though no deals have been done. How that will work will be interesting given many of them are maintaing busy careers. "Arrested" player Arnett is currently on the NBC series "Up All Night" and another alum, Portia de Rossi, is attached to a high-profile project in development at the Peacock.

Where this leaves the proposed "Arrested" feature film isn't clear. While one source familiar with the project said it is currently in development at Fox Searchlight, another source at the studio denied it was an active project. Hurwitz's vision of the film was to schedule it after the series run in order to drive interest at the box office, but at the very least it seems that the film and TV aren't attached to each other.

Hurwitz was executive producer of "Arrested" with Imagine principals Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. The producing pair issued a statement: "Bringing a series back from cancellation almost never happens, but then, 'Arrested' always was about as unconventional as they get, so it seems totally appropriate that this show that broke the mold is smashing it to pieces once again."

That Netflix has emerged the winner of a bidding war that reportedly included pay-TV player Showtime will be seen as a real coup for the service, which already gave Hollywood notice in March that it was in the original programming business in a big way when it ordered a 22-episode adaptation of the BBC drama "House of Cards" set to premiere next year. Analysts estimated "Cards," which comes with Kevin Spacey attached to star and David Fincher to executive produce, cost Netflix $100 million to get the rights from Media Rights Capital.

Financial terms of the "Arrested" deal are not known but could be substantial given the caliber of talent involved.

While Netflix's market capitalization was sent reeling in recent months after ill-advised decisions regarding its pricing, the need for original programming is all the greater as content companies have held the line at giving the service TV shows that are in-season.

Since Netflix started licensing original series, the service has been seen as a potential savior for ill-fated productions that get shuttered over the objections of a cult following too narrow to sustain them. But rescuing a show that comes with a built-in audience--albeit one too small to survive on TV--may be a safer strategy than creating a new property out of whole cloth.

The hedge on "Cards" is that its narrative has already gotten a test run in the U.K. but with different talent on both sides of the camera.

Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at Netflix said of the deal, "'Arrested Development is one of the finest American comedies in TV history and its return through Netflix is a perfect example of how we are working closely with studios and networks to provide consumers with entertainment they love,'" said Ted Sarandos, Netflix Chief Content Officer.

The return of "Development" would be a stunner given it is rare that a series comes back after a protracted absence, though 20th and Fox have seen precedent here: Animated series "Family Guy" was canceled in 2001 only to be revived three years later after the series fared well on DVD and in syndication.

Source : Variety.com

Six Seasons And A Movie !

2011-11-17T14:31:00.001-08:00

Not Cool ! Not Cool ! Not Cool !

Right now I'm really really upset, how NBC dares to put their best show Community on hiatus ?

That's horrible, I know they did the same with Parks and Recreation but all the Community's fans are worried.

So Arrested Development's fans I want you to help me to save Community by signing this petition Save Community, you can also use your Twitter account to support the show with #SaveCommunity and #SixSeasonsAndAMovie. Thanks !

I'm counting on you !

Arrested Development Documentary Project : Update !

2011-10-06T12:55:00.000-07:00

Hey !

This is an other great great news ! After the rebirth of our favorite TV Show this is the last update about the Arrested Development Documentary Project, it's coming during winter 2011 ! If you can't remember what is this documentary take a look at this trailer :

If you wan to see more of this upcoming documentary, you can watch this deleted scene with Mitch Hurwitz !

To finish you can read my interview of the creators here and also here. I can't want to see this documentary, I wish the best to Neil and Jeff !

Vids of the week : The New Yorker Festival

2011-10-04T07:35:00.000-07:00

Family Loves Arrested Development

The New Yorker Festival you remember ? The whole cast was reunited for a talk about AD and Mitch told us the great new (see yesterday article). If you wanna take a look at the reunion, watch the vid below :

Bonus : Watch the cast doing the "Chicken Dance" !

Thanks to DougBuffone4488 for the vids.

New Season and a Movie !

2011-10-03T01:56:00.000-07:00

Chicken !

What can I say really ? Isn't the best news Of 2011 ? Just read this Huffington Post article and enjoy !

"Arrested Development" is back. Really.
The cult classic television comedy about the travails of the rich, zany Bluth family, cancelled in 2006 after three seasons, will produce nine to ten new episodes and a movie, it was announced at The New Yorker Festival on Sunday.

"It's true. We will do 10 episodes and the movie. Probably shoot them all together next summer for a release in early '13. VERY excited!" leading actor Jason Bateman tweeted.
Smart and irreverent, the show also starred David Cross, Michael Cera, Portia De Rossi, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat and Jessica Walter. It was executive produced by Ron Howard, who also provided narration.

Since its cancellation, the show has earned a fervent fan base, with constant speculation as to when -- or whether -- the show would be adapted into a movie. The cast, led by Bateman and Will Arnett, has frequently promised that a movie would be coming, though until now they've been unable to offer any specifics. As it turns out, that can be attributed to the difficulties of intellectual properties and broadcast rights.

“We don’t completely own the property, there are business people involved and studios and that kind of thing," creator Mitch Hurwitz said on Sunday, as quoted by the NY Times. "Just creatively, I have been working on the screenplay for a long time and found that as time went by, there was so much more to the story. In fact, where everyone’s been for five years became a big part of the story. So in working on the screenplay, I found even if I just gave five minutes per character to that back story, we were halfway through the movie before the characters got together.”

As such, the plan is to have one episode explore each character as a lead-in to the film.
Just over two weeks ago, Bateman, who starred this summer's comedies, "Horrible Bosses" and "The Change-Up," told Entertainment Weekly that he was frustrated that he couldn't give more details, but assure a film would be forthcoming.

In February, Hurwitz told Digital Spy that the process was underway, but couldn't say more.
"I don't like to toy with the affections of our fans," he said. "They've been so supportive and we're so grateful, so I kind of hate to answer the question until I can say, 'Yep, we've shot it, it opens next week'. Otherwise it feels like we're toying with people and we do not mean to do that. It has just taken a while to get it going."

In July, Jeffrey Tambor, who plays the show's patriarch, told The Huffington Post, "It's all going straight, everyone's on board, I know they're writing, and maybe next time this year we'll be having this conversation."

Source : The Huffington Post

Vid of the week : Bob Loblaw

2011-06-16T10:20:00.000-07:00

Bob Loblaw Law Blog

New category on the blog, each week I'll show you a video of best Arrested Development's moments. This week it's Bob Loblaw :

Well we're not here to talk non-sense to Bob Loblaw.

There's always a movie in the Banana Stand

2011-06-15T10:46:00.000-07:00

There's always a movie in the Banana Stand !

I can't believe that I didn't see these videos where Mitch talks about the movie, for once it's not Jason Bateman. In these videos Mitch confirms officially the movie production and he gives us some news. What do we learn here ? Two main informations :

A trailer will come out this year

A lot of guests will be in the movie

So we can assume that the shooting is going to start soon enough. We can also imagine to see some guests coming back such as : Zach Braff, Ben Stiller, Charlize Theron or Carl Weather ! We're gonna have only one movie, I think, so it's the occasion to reunite everyone. Here the fist vid :

And the second :

There are other vids from the same interview, I'll talk about it later.

Taste the demotivation Michael

2011-06-14T03:55:00.000-07:00

Both Start out the same way

Do you like Demotivational Posters ? I love it, it's so funny and clever. I saw one of my first posters during two shows : Futurama and Arrested Development. In AD the poster represents a lot what George Michael's type of education looks like. Children's education is one of the main theme of AD.

So on internet we can find really great demotivational posters about Arrested Development :

Analrapist

So true !

There's gotta be a better way to say that...

I'll be in the hospital bar !

These are just a preview of what you can find on the internet, if you find great demotivational posters or Meme about Arrested Development please send them to me !

Bonus :

I just "shoot" myself !

2011-06-13T09:37:00.000-07:00

I just blue myself...

Thank god we have Jason Bateman to keep us in touch with the Arrested Development Movie news ! In every interview he keeps telling us that the movie is still in production and apparently Mitch "wants" to start the shooting this year...

Jason Bateman might be a familiar face this summer with his two big comedies — Horrible Bosses and The Change-Up — in theaters, but many of his fans just want to know one thing: what the heck is up with the long-rumored Arrested Development movie? ”I have no update at all,” says Bateman. “As far as I know, [creator] Mitchell Hurwitz is working on the script and he wants to start shooting at some point this year. So while I haven’t heard anything new, I haven’t heard anything that would contradict that.”

Source : InsideMovies

George Senior in Broadway

2010-12-10T15:07:00.000-08:00

"Coo-coo Kah Cha !"

Here we go for some good news about one of the funniest Bluth family members. George Senior aka Jeffrey Tambor is going to act in a play called "La Cage aux Folles".
In France, where I live, it's a famous and funny play. It's also a great movie.
Seeing Jeffrey Tambor in this kind of play is great, I hope some of us will go to see him.

You can find more details in this L.A Times article :

Jeffrey Tambor may not be a household name, but his face is instantly recognizable thanks to his Emmy-nominated performances in the cult TV series "Arrested Development" and "The Larry Sanders Show." In February, Tambor will be leaving the world of TV temporarily behind to return to Broadway in the current revival of "La Cage aux Folles."
Tambor will be replacing another TV veteran, Kelsey Grammer, in the role of Georges. Tambor is set to take over the role Feb. 15, and will star opposite Harvey Fierstein, who is replacing Tony-winner Douglas Hodge in the part of Albin. "La Cage," at the Longacre Theatre, won the award for best revival at this year's Tonys and was earlier produced at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.

Fierstein wrote the book for "La Cage" and will be performing in the musical for the first time. "La Cage" had its Broadway debut in 1983, winning the Tony for new musical. The current revival opened in New York in April.

Tambor has previously appeared on Broadway in Larry Gelbart's"Sly Fox" in 1976 and a revival of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" in 2005. The actor has received six Emmy nominations for supporting actor in a comedy for "The Larry Sanders Show" and "Arrested Development."

His recent film work includes "The Hangover" and the new Disney animated film "Tangled."

We wish you the best George !

Arrested DVDevelopment

2010-12-08T05:03:00.000-08:00

Have you seen this before ? This is the original artwork for the 1st season DVD, I'm sure you've the DVD at your place so compare them.

I really like this one, so funny !

"These are balls ?! "

If you want to see the picture in the original size just clic on it !
Soon I'll make an article about all the Arrested Development's DVD editions that we can find on internet.
That's a idea for a present...It's almost christmas !

Show With Low Self-Esteem

2010-12-07T07:34:00.000-08:00

"Yeah, the guy wearing the $4,000 suit is going to do a new TV Show...COME ON !"

Now let's talk about Running Wilde, the last baby of Mitch Hurwitz and Will Arnett.Everybody was waiting for it but did we really need Running Wilde ?The answer is "yes" we always need a new show wrote by Mitch but no necesseraly on Fox. Arrested Development was to clever for the channel, "Sit Down, Shut Up" was not made for Fox and Running Wilde was simply useless for Fox. At first there was a contract signed between Will Arnett and Fox (see the article about it) and Will was free to choose whoever he wants to work with.With no surprises he choose Mitch Hurwitz and together they made Running Wilde who was called at first "Wilde Kingdom".

Let's see the plot :

The show centers on Steve Wilde (Will Arnett), a self-centered billionaire who is clueless about most things in the real world. Emmy Kadubic (Keri Russell) is Steve's high school sweetheart. When the series opens, she is an activist that lives in a rain forest along with her fiance Andy (David Cross) and daughter Puddle (Stefania Owen). Puddle refuses to speak at first, as an attempt to get her mother to move out of the rain forest. Steve invites Emmy to a party where he is to accept an award. Surprised at the thought that Steve has finally become a better person, she decides to go. When at the party, she soon finds out that he is giving the award to himself, which is more like what she expected.

The next day Puddle speaks to a drunk Steve about what she thinks about living in the jungle. Steve briefly thinks that the conversation is telepathic even though her mouth is moving. Steve and Puddle stage an intricate scenario to fool Emmy into to staying at Steve's mansion, which fails. Emmy scolds Steve about taking advantage of a young girl who does not speak, and Steve takes the blame for Puddle's plan. This causes Puddle to speak to her mother, telling her that Steve must have some morality left in him, since he lied for her without gaining anything. Puddle explains that she doesn't like living in a jungle, and she wants to stay with Steve. Emmy agrees to stay for Puddle, but only in the treehouse Steve originally built for her when they were young. As Steve tries to win back Emmy, she vows to change him into a more selfless person.

The idea was clearly good and the material was here to do a good show, maybe not as great as Arrested but still a good show.

At this point I was hopefull about the whole thing. Meanwhille the AD's movie was put on "pause".

And then came out the first trailer :

After seeing this I was disappointed and scared for the show. The trailer was simply not good at all, what a shame for us fans of Mitch.

But the airing date for the first episode came and I watched it, maybe I was in a good mood that day but I've appreciate it. Don't misunderstand my words, appreciate doesn't mean it was really good.

In fact the pilot was far from being great, it was just good and I'll tell more about it on a future article.

Even if I liked it, the critics were not enthusiast about Running Wilde :

The Hollywood Reporter
Reviewed by: Randee Dawn

Wilde is a fast-paced grab bag; it's hard not to like a character who dunderheadedly imports an Amazon tribe to a five-star hotel rather than tell his dad not to drill on their land, all to prove he's a decent guy. But for now, audiences will have to sort through the good stuff and toss aside the lumps of coal that keep "Wilde" from being a truly wild ride.

New York Post
Reviewed by: Michael Starr

The writing here isn't very snappy, Steve and Emmy are one-dimensional cutouts and Russell, the former "Felicity" star, looks uncomfortable playing it for laughs.

San Francisco Chronicle
Reviewed by: Tim Goodman

While the reworked pilot is a marked improvement over the original, the parts are still not working together, but you'd like to believe they will be in a few episodes.

Variety
Reviewed by: Brian Lowry

The best the pilot can muster is a few silly hops.

TV Squad
Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan

Good comedies take a lot of work, but that strain shouldn't show up on the screen. It pains me to say that, despite all the obvious effort, I can't see how Running Wilde could get significantly better.

So why everyone was disappointed ?

The first lead for an answer is the "Arrested Development Effect" (I'm gonna call that the "ADE"), when we talk about Mitch, Will, Jason Bateman and the whole AD's cast we always mention Arrested Development and how great the sho was. It's great to not forget the serie but It's a trap for Mitch and Will in the Running Wilde's case. We were waiting for a second Arrested Development but it's not gonna happen, whatever you think. Arrested was a financial waste for Fox and they're not stupid to ask Mitch for a show like that again. C'mon ! Do you really think it was possible ?

Mitch and Will understood that very well and like the Coca Light they made an "Arrested Development Light", a serie with no sugar. No sugar ? No real interest for us.

Once again the strategy was wrong, people were not interested by RW because of is lack of taste, but Mitch said interesting things about his strategy, I'll talk about that after.

Seriously if you've watched the show you're gonna be agree with me, the serie seemed so faker. Everything was superficial, maybe it was an artistic choice to highlight the superficiality of Steve Wilde ? But I don't think so. We don't believe in the universe of the show.

But not everything in Running Wilde was bad, they were some good ideas and some good episodes like :

No seriously you'll see in future articles about the episodes.

So I've said that the strategy wasn't good, do we really know what is the real strategy ?

Month ago I read an interview of Mitch, for Running Wilde he wanted to start the show in a simple way and put everything in place gradually unlike AD where all the pieces were there at the beginning.

To conclude I would say that Running Wilde is not good but is not bad also, Mitch & Will missed the potential of the show.

Still alive ?!

2010-12-04T02:54:00.000-08:00

"There's a new daddy in town !"

Hi everyone, these days I really miss Arrested Development and I'm thinking about get back to basics like watch again the 3 seasons and make this blog alive again !

Now I'm here !

Hum...well ok you don't believe right now but you'll see.

But I have to give you an explanation about the reasons of the lack of updates. It's simple :

The news are still the same !

And I was like "okay it's not my priority to work on the blog..."
So I apologize about that and I'm back for real and for good.

And now let's see the latest news :

The first is a news for the website TvGawker and Will Arnett is talking :

Arrested Development movie updates?
We're in the midst of Running Wilde and we're unable to focus on anything else, but it is something we plan on doing. I can't really speak to Mitch's timetable but I would suspect that it's going to be sooner rather than later now, I will say that.

David Cross said in an interview that he knows the storyline and it's "awesome."
Yeah there's some really funny stuff, some really funny ideas being kicked around. It's Mitch's call on how anything goes.

Can you give us a hint? A taste? Something?
I really can't, it would be far too premature. But if it goes in the direction Mitch is suggesting, it'll be super hilarious.

It seems that the AD's movie is still alive ! You want another proof ? Let see a declaration of Mitch Hurwitz from AVClub :

AVC: So what is the status of the film? It’s the inescapable question.

MH: It is my absolute next priority. I’ve said we’re about halfway through it, but I’m including a lot of the stories as part of that half. It’s the next thing I do as soon as I get a breath from [Running Wilde]. If it gets picked up for a back nine, I’ll have people in place to do this and I can go finish that. It is my biggest creative priority. It’s very frustrating I haven’t had time to do it. I’ve been having to do other things, but it’s time and money. It’s part of, you know, the thing I’ve built for myself here. This house of cards. I have to say, people think I’m more successful than I am, and I appreciate that. I think. I don’t know if I care I, guess. But I’m a working guy. I’m not joking, though, if I had Cocoon, all bets would be off.

Keep in touch with the blog, I'll talk about Running Wilde and the Arrested Development Doc.

See you soon, really soon !

WHERE THE F&#K ARE MY HARD BOILED EGGS?!

2010-03-20T04:39:00.000-07:00

"My name is Judge !"

So so so...it been a long since I let an article about the Arrested Development Movie !
The main reason is the lack of news, that's the clue. Nobody talks a lot about the movie and Mitch Hurwitz seems to be focus on his new TV show with Will Arnett.
You can read an article about the situation :

The push for an Arrested Development movie is beginning to feel a bit like one of Gob Bluth’s magic tricks -I’m sorry, “illusions.” It starts off promising, dazzles fans of the series for a brief moment…and then the bottom falls out.

A few months back, the Arrested Development movie appeared to be gaining momentum: Mitchell Hurtwitz, the show’s creator, was reportedly busy working on the script and Will Arnett went on-record claiming the movie would be made this year.

Now we’re hearing reports that the project has been pushed back…yet again.

Speaking with MTV, Jason Bateman, who played Michael Bluth in the TV series, restated the tentative schedule for the film: “Nothing new. We’re hoping for the end of the year.”

However, the actor went on to clarify one factor in the delay: Hurtwitz has a new sitcom in the works…starring Will Arnett.

According to The Hollywood Reporter the still untitled Hurtwitz project has “Arnett as a rich Beverly Hills jackass who falls in love with a charitable tree-hugging woman who can’t stand his lifestyle or values.”

“[The new] show with Arnett has pushed [Arrested] another few months,” Bateman said.

If we received a banana for every time we’ve heard that the Arrested Development movie was going to be pushed back another few months, we’d have enough bananas to open our own Frozen Banana stand by now (get it?).

Bateman was still optimistic that the cast and creators will get the Arrested Development movie into theaters in the near future – “It’s still coming.”

Are you as optimistic as Bateman? Or is your interest beginning to wane?

Now a short video with Jason Bateman at the Sunday's Academy Awards:

MTV Shows

And now a vid where David Cross talks shortly about the movie, he doesn't seems hopefull:

Source: MTV, Hollywood Reporter, Youtube

Missing Movie

2009-12-19T01:49:00.000-08:00

"Charlie Brown...."

Oh Michael...I love when you're saying things like these about the movie :

Oh "Arrested Development" movie. You wicked temptress. One minute, you're happening. Then you're not. Then you're maybe happening, but somewhere far down the road. Then that ship has maybe sailed, but then it pulls into port again. So how about now? Are we there yet? Soon enough, says star Michael Cera...

"I'm pretty sure it'll happen, I just don't know when," the actor told MTV at a press junket for "Youth in Revolt," which hits theaters on January 8. "I think sometime next year, hopefully, we'll be shooting," he said, adding quickly once again, "I hope." Encouraging words, despite the qualifiers.

You can't really blame the guy for being cautious. I would guess that he hears the words "Arrested Development" in nearly every interview he sits down for. An accidentally chosen phrase could be blown totally out of proportion. A phrase like "I think sometime next year," in fact. "But he promised!!!" we fans will say.

Looking at the legion of fans who are still clamoring for more of the Bluth clan's antics, it's easy to see how "Arrested Development"'s cancellation accounts for one of the big fumbles in TV history. It's good to hear Cera staying so positive about the possibility of this movie finally pushing forward in the coming year.

Are you willing to accept Cera's words at face value, and continue believing that an "Arrested Development" movie will happen in the next year or two? Have you abandoned all hope?

Source : MTV Blog

The arrested development of "Arrested Development"

2009-12-12T03:55:00.000-08:00

Let's recap the Arrested Development Movie production :

Source : BlackBookMag

Hurwitz Complex

2009-12-07T23:18:00.000-08:00

"I don't want no part of you tied ass country club, y'a freak bitch !"

That's all about waiting and waiting for some news but nothing wants to come...so that's why I kept for few weeks this interview of Mitchell Hurwitz during the Austin Film Festival.
Here we go !

“A Conversation with Mitchell Hurwitz” Saturday in the Stephen F. Austin Hotel Ballroom really was a conversation. Moderator Paul Feig shifted quickly from interviewing the winner of the 2009 Austin Film Festival’s Outstanding Television Writer award to just shooting the breeze with him.

Feig, the creator of “Freaks and Geeks,” has become a sought-after director — kind of to TV what Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl brings to other bands as a drummer for hire. He’s directed episodes of “Mad Men,” “The Office” and “30 Rock” in addition to ” “Arrested Development.”

Hurwitz, best known for the shaky, hand-held camera antics of the Bluth family, began his television career on a program called “Nurses.”

Here are some highlights of their conversation:

On writing: Hurwitz said that he often likes to begin writing with constructs, such as ego, superego and id. When he was starting out and writing spec scripts, he said, he would ask himself questions, such as “Okay, how many people are on Cheers? How do they connect with each other?” Such devices, he says, become invisible to the audience but can help spark the creative process. In “Arrested Development,” he originally began basing his characters on the construct “matriarch, patriarch, craftsman and clown.” Originally envisioned as the series’ four main characters, Lindsay, Michael, Buster and Gob filled those roles.

“As a creative person,” Hurwitz said, “the hardest thing is a first draft. It destroys your image that you can write. It doesn’t come out of the pen correctly. Then we go the stage and the first run-through, and I’m devastated. Then to post-production, where I think, ‘I’m a fraud. It doesn’t work.’ Hard work is so much more a part of this than talent is. The harder you work the more chance you have of being talented. If you struggle with it, that’s okay. That’s part of it.”

“The only people who love to write are bad writers,” Feig added.

Hurwitz said the old aphorism, “Write what you know,” is a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. “Even if you write science fiction,” he said, “you’re going to be writing what you know.”

On inspiration: Hurwitz says his favorite quote is this gem, from philosopher Isaiah Berlin: “Life is choice, and choice is loss.” Each time you make a choice, you let go of all of the other possibilities available. But, ” If you do make a choice and commit,” Hurwitz said, “you will find your creative direction.”

On Ron Howard: The impetus behing “Arrested Development” was highly praised by Hurwitz, who said, “He made a schizo mathematician into a big, wide-release movie. He’s kind of amazing that way.” It was Howard who approached Hurwitz about creating a cinema verite, documentary-style show. They dialed the documentary idea back after learning about the original, British version of “The Office,” which had begun airing as they created “Arrested.” Howard encouraged Hurwitz to take risks which Hurwitz, coming from a background of conventional (but good) sitcoms such as “The Golden Girls” was happy to do.

On the executives: “There are no longer executives that come from Broadway or from entertainment backgrounds,” Hurwitz said. “They all come from accounting,” Feig added. Both said that was okay, there was definitely a need and a place for that.

On “Arrested Development”: “We knew we weren’t going to be a financial success; we knew we weren’t going to be a ratings success,” Hurwitz said. So they just made the best show they could make.

On the show’s ground-breaking camera style: As a director, Feig claims the method allows for a funnier product. It enables him to ask actors such as Steve Carrell of “The Office” to change things up and approach scenes several different ways, which is difficult and costly to do with conventional camera set-ups. “Multiple hand-held cameras make it possible to catch improvised takes from many angles,” Feig said. ” ‘Arrested’ got people used to the handheld camera quick cuts; I think it’s the best way to shoot TV. You can run, you can fly. It’s great for actors — you can go again and go again.” Intricate camera set-ups have their place, he said, but “there are not many comedies about camera set-ups and shots.”

On the “Arrested Development” movie: “I’m tempted to change the style for the film, but Ron Howard wants it to stay the same,” Hurwitz claimed. “It will have just a little more polish.”

Source : Austin 360

ARReSTeD DeVeLOPMeNT MoVie

2009-10-28T17:05:00.000-07:00

"Maeby a movie ?!"

This Is It !
Now we have the official declaration of Mitchell Hurwitz about the movie, he's directing it.
Right now the AD Movie is officially launched, so I'm going to the hospital bar to celebrate it...

At this point the Arrested Development bit has been utterly destroyed from the sheer volume of people constantly chomping at it, hoping they'll sink their teeth into some fresh meat and sate their hunger for news. Well today, my friends, you'll get a nice hard confirmation of some directorial rumors and a sneak peek about what you might see in the film , straight from series writer Mitch Hurwitz.

The Austin Film Festival recently took place and thanks to the gents over at Austin 360 they've provided in-depth detail about the “Art of Storytelling” panel at which Hurwitz and series executive producer and narrator Ron Howard spoke.

Confirming everyone's suspicions, Hurwitz dropped the bomb that he is in fact hammering out a script for the film right now, and when the time comes he'll be the one in the director's chair. PHEW! Arrested Development faithful such as myself have been a little bit worried that the project would go to someone else with not as much stake in the franchise, but thankfully it will be in good hands and the intertubes can breathe a sigh of relief.

He went on to tell us to expect a heavy jail presence in the film, and that he will include a reference to TARP money as a bit of a jab of the film industry for taking so long to make films that are socially relevant. Who will be in prison, we don't know, but expect it not to be George Sr.

It's an incredibly small bit of news, but knowing that Hurwitz knows where he's going instills quite a lot of hope. We'll be keeping a sharp eye open for anything else to come out of the A.D. camp in the coming months.

Source : CinemaBlend.com

Jason Bateman is "The best man for the job" !

2009-10-14T23:31:00.000-07:00

"Michael !"

The Austin Film Festival is coming very soon, I can't wait for the Mitchell Hurwitz's declaration...
So we just have to be patient !

I found on youtube a video of Jason Bateman where he explains how he gets his part in Arrested Development, it's very interesting so take a few minutes to watch it...
(Click on the picture)

I don't care for GOB...

Go buy-us a Movie !

2009-10-05T23:10:00.000-07:00

"I'm doing the time of my life !"

Well, well, well...This is it ! Mitchell Hurwitz and Jim Vallely are working on the Arrested Development script !
Isn't that great ?! The information was revealed by the THR website :

"Arrested Development" creator Mitchell Hurwitz and his co-executive producer James Vallely are working on a screenplay for the long-debated feature version of their short-lived Fox series. Even as they prep a new Fox comedy series with "Arrested" star Will Arnett, the writers are spinning more bizarre encounters for the eccentric, spoiled Bluth clan for possible feature production in the spring.

Imagine, which produced the TV show, and Fox Searchlight are producing the film.

Hurwitz had said that he wouldn't start writing a film unless all the main actors, including Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, David Cross, Arnett, Alia Shawkat, Portia de Rossi and Jeffrey Tambor, were committed. Earlier in the year, speculation circulated about which wanted to return as the show's hyper-invested fans pushed from the sidelines and the actors themselves spurred excitement.

Hey T-Bone !

Not Without My Blog

2009-10-01T00:14:00.000-07:00

"It ain't easy being white"

There's a long time since I've wrote an article on the blog, I was very busy this month but everyday day I'm looking for some real news.

So what can we say about the Arrested Development Movie right now ? Not more than the last month but our great Jason Bateman continues to talk about it.

The 24th September he was saying :

It’s still being written and my guess is that is will be shot some time next year. I have a feeling that Mitch [Hurwitz] is halfway done writing it. We’ll probably shoot it middle of next year and then for however long things take to get cut and marketed, so maybe the first part of 2011 I would imagine. That’s just a guess.

Source : We Are Movie Geeks

Another news, but not about Arrested, Ron Howard have a new comedy TV project !

Now, Ron Howard is back with a new idea for another comedy series at Fox -- a workplace comedy set at an Internal Revenue Service district office.

Fox has committed to a pilot, grabbing the project pre-emptively before it could be pitched to other networks.

It will be written by Brent Forrester, writer-director on another workplace comedy, NBC's "The Office." Forrester and Howard are executive producing with Howard's partners at Imagine TV, Brian Grazer and David Nevins.

"It's an idea Ron had toyed with for many years as a feature," Nevins said. "Eventually, Brian and I convinced him it would be better as a TV show."

The three met with several writers until hitting it off with Forrester.

"The one thing that unites all Americans is their suspicion and hatred for the IRS," Forrester said. "That makes the characters on the show underdogs, because outside the office everyone is suspicious of them."

The IRS agent at the center "is trying hard to believe that his job is good and noble and provides a very important, vital service," Forrester said. "It's a classic workplace show; the model for it is 'Taxi,'" Forrester said.

"In essence, it's a group of eclectic characters who have come to the job from different paths and who represent different points of view and different voices."

There will be procedural elements to the show, too.

"'L.A. Law' had lawsuits, and 'CSI' has murders; this show has audits, tax collection and special ops, with the FBI against organized crime and drug dealers," Forrester said.

Source : Reuters

Arrested Development : The Small Effort !

2009-09-04T12:02:00.000-07:00

"Atkins !"

Now we know that the Arrested Development will come out for sure, Jason Bateman gaves us some informations about the movie like he's always did in IGN :

Jason Bateman has revealed that the proposed Arrested Development film will be a "small effort".

The 40-year-old actor, who played Michael Bluth on the cancelled Fox series, recently admitted that plans for the movie were still in the early stages.

He has now said that the project will be made on a small scale, while a script is more than "halfway" finished.

Bateman told IGN: "We hope that there is enough people out there who would want to see it that [Fox] Searchlight could get its money back from financing it."

He added: "[Series creator Mitchell Hurwitz] is halfway through writing the script now, and once he's done and if he's happy with it, we'll start to schedule it and then shoot it. And then be done."

"It will be a small film. It will be simple. We'll shoot it in probably six weeks. It will get a little release. It is not being done at big Fox, it is being done at Fox Searchlight. It's going to be a small effort."

It was reported earlier that Michael Cera will reprise his George-Michael Bluth character for the Arrested Development film.

Can't wait !

Arrested Development : Surely a movie !

2009-08-27T13:34:00.000-07:00

"Now the story of a wealthy family..."

Now ladies in gentleman please welcome a real news about the Arrested Development movie !
It's was hard to imagine the Arrested Development movie project down, it's just impossible. C'mon !
Can you imagine Mitch tell to all the Arrested Development's fan :

"I'm sorry I can't do it you know because..."

Naaah !

Thank god Jason Bateman is always here to bring good news, this time it's on Collider :

Question: What is the state of “Arrested Development”?

Jason Bateman: The script’s being written and when Mitch is done with it we can go to the scheduling part of it which will probably prove to be a bit challenging given the size of the cast.

And they’re all attached?

Jason: He is asked us not to speak about specifics, but that he’s working on it.

It seems like 5 or 6 months there was a lot of momentum. A lot of people talking about the film. And then it seemed like it sort of got a little bit quiet. Everyone’s a little nervous it’s actually happening. Is it, in fact, actually being written right now?

Jason: Yes.

That’s 100%?

Jason: Yeah. Yeah. That’s never changed. I mean people have guessed and “rumored” and all that other stuff in all areas of the media. I’ve always been a little sort of…I’ve always felt bad that I never had more information to give people when they asked me about it, but I guess people kind of got frustrated by that and they just started kind of making up their own sort of “well, we haven’t heard that much” or “news hasn’t changed so it must be going away”. I don’t know. It sort of took a life of its own on and fatigue started to set in I think about the whole story of it. I mean, there’s really no need to write anything about it at all until he’s done writing it. Once he writes it then, just like any movie, then it becomes something a little bit more real and then you try to figure out scheduling and you try to figure out people’s deals. I mean, it’s got the same life that any other project would have. It has just as much a chance of happening as it does of not happening really.

So what do you think of this great news ?