Arrested Development fans now have permission to officially freak out! Mitch Hurwitz, creator of the show, announced at the New Yorker Festival on Sunday that he’s preparing to bring the show back to television for a limited-run.
The new episodes will air as a way to lead into the Arrested Development movie and according to Hurwitz:
“We’re trying to do a limited-run series into the movie,” while adding, “We’re basically hoping to do nine or 10 episodes, with almost one character per episode.”
The New York Times is reporting that Hurwitz is half way through a screenplay with his co-writers Jim Vallely and Dean Lorey, although a studio has not been named at this time. Mitch did say the project “requires studios to work together that don’t typically work together, film and TV.”
Also speaking about the show Jason Bateman said of the idea:
“There’s business left to be done, but creatively we are all on board and have a very specific plan about how it would come out and what we would do and when we would shoot it. I think we’re targeting next summer to shoot it.”
Bateman later tweeted:
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!
Mitch and his crew hope to have the show air sometime in the fall if everything falls into place.
Are you excited to see Arrested Development back on TV and will you be heading to theaters to see the Michael Bluth [Bateman] and his crazy family of misfits?
