Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Arrested Development Movie is on!


If any of you know me you know that I am a HUGE Arrested Development fan. When I saw this today I about shit myself:

Last winter, Jeffrey Tambor, the actor who played the scheming patriarch in Fox’s brilliant, underwatched and now-cancelled Arrested Development appeared on The Ron & Fez Show on XM radio, saying that there was a “real push” to get a movie version of the TV series made. Then this summer, lead actor Jason Bateman also seemed to confirmed that the wheels were in motion for the a film version of Arrested. A hefty container of water was thrown on the fire last month when Michael Cera disavowed any knowledge of such a film, and expressed doubt that Arrested fans would even want to see an Arrested movie.

Now from Collider comes the latest twist in the creation of the Arrested Development movie. Steve “Frosty” Weintraub spoke with Tambor at an event to promote Hellboy 2 and asked him if he was sick of people asking about the Arrested movie. Shockingly, Tambor responded as follows:

Well no, because we’re doing it. We are going. It’s a go. I just actually this week talked to Mitch Hurwitz, so we’re doing it.

Clearly taken aback by the positive response, Frosty pressed for details, as any Arrested fan would. After all, we’ve been through too much to have our hopes let down again. Was there a start-time? A script? Tambor, referring to Hurwitz, said:

No, but when the writer calls you, the director and the executive producer calls you, it’s a pretty good sign.

Color me skeptical. Many things stand in the way of this movie getting made, the most significant of which seems to be getting the sprawling cast back together again, many of whom have continued on to impressive careers in TV and film. A small, dying, withered part of my soul still wants to see the gang reunited for one last redemptive chance at showing the whole movie world what a unique and fantastic phenomenon Arrested Development truly was, but until I hear something more solid, I really can’t risk being disappointed again. The constant threat (and subsequent reality) of cancellation back when the show was still on the air…That was already almost too much to bear.

(Via Slashfilm)

Now that we won.....


What are we gonna do now? Well Ill tell you this much, the last thing I am going to do is let my guard down. The MSM (main stream media for those of you not familiar with internet lingo) has already declared total victory and "The end of the Gipper era" I for one am not so sure. Sure if you look at the electoral map basically every major city overwhelming voted democratic but there are a lot of country folk who are firmly in the right-wing camp. Now this is not a knock against them, this is America people can believe whatever they want and vote for whomever they choose this is not what I am against. I am against the neo-cons taking advantage of these people for their own political gains and wars. I cannot tell you how happy I am that we have a liberal back in the White House lets just hope he does right by us.......