Thursday, August 20, 2009

August Arrested Development Updates

Zap2It: 'Arrested Development' movie is nowhere near happening
"I don't think Mitch is gonna do it," an insider told me. "It seems like he's moving off the idea. So much time has passed."

THR: Arrested Development Three Reunite
AD's creative mastermind Mitch Hurwitz and his co-executive producer Jim Vallely are putting together the single camera comedy for Arnett, who will play another smug privileged rich boy (see also Let's Go To Prison, 30 Rock and his quirkier take on the type in Arrested Development) who despite his own protestations falls for a hippy who hates his lifestyle and values.

ChiTribune: The sad tales of comedy writers
Mitch Hurwitz ("Arrested Development") says he wishes he hadn't gone back to his high school and offered encouragement. Entertainment, he says, "can make a lot of people very, very unhappy."