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Come On: Whole "Arrested Development" Cast Won't Be Together Until The Movie
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Ben Yakas
Published Jan 9, 2013
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There's been a lot of rumors and false information spread about the upcoming 4th season of Arrested Development (and when it may premiere) recently—but finally, creator Mitch Hurwitz sat down with USA Today and revealed some real meaty scoops on what the format of the new season will be like: "If people watch it all at once, it will seem like a giant Arrested Development. It's really tailored for Netflix." Having said that: "You don't see them all together until you see the movie."
Nah, we're not really upset—sure, it's not exactly a typical "reunion," but we'll still get to spend time with all of our favorite characters from the Arrested Development universe (give or take a Steve Holt!) over the course of 13-14 episodes this May. Yes, a May premiere date has been confirmed—and it's also been confirmed that Tobias, GOB, Lucille and the rest will be just as terrible as ever: "I can assure you that the characters are just as damaged, self-involved and self-righteous as ever."
The reason for keeping the family apart for so long was as much about scheduling as it was plot: "It would be impossible to get everyone together at the same time" to film it, said Hurwitz. As for where the show will begin and where it will take the characters leading up to the movie:
"The bigger story is the family has fallen apart at the start of our show," Hurwitz says. "They all went their own way, without Michael holding them together, so they're left to their own devices, and they're not the most successful devices." The season is designed as a "first act to what we eventually want to do, which is a big movie," though there's no guarantee it will ever get made.
"Each individual (episode) kind of depicts what happens in 2006 as the Bluths fled from the law on the Queen Mary" in what was once the series' finale, then explains what's happened to them since and leaves them in the present day, he says.
The true flavor "slowly reveals itself, as the moment you saw in one show will reappear in another show from a different character's perspective," he says.
Other tidbits: Michael Cera is now on the writing staff. Hurwitz describes the new episodes as a "very, very complex puzzle." And as was expected, each episode will follow one main character instead of jumping between storylines—which gives more credence to the leaked reports that these are the new episode titles.
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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