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(3/25/10) Sorry to state the obvious, but Will Arnett is a funny, funny man.

When E! News caught up with him at the Monsters & Aliens junket to corner him about why that darned Arrested Development movie is taking so long, the jokester answered, "I think it has to do with schedules, and Jason Bateman’s been in rehab for the last two years, so when he gets out, then I think we’ll probably start."

Ha-ha. Find out what's really going down with this darned movie…

"I’m worried that people are going to start taking to the streets," Will tells E! News. "I imagine there are other people who are like, 'Who cares?' As far as I know, everybody’s doing it."

As we reported earlier this year, everyone is doing it. That includes, along with Will, Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Tony Hale, Jessica Walter, Jeffrey Tambor and David Cross.

"We want to get done by the end of the year and Mitch [Hurwitz, writer/director] is actively working on [it]," adds Will. "Hopefully, by the fall, we’ll start rolling, as they say."

And, as we say: Yay!

Source: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b105...#ixzz0jdB6BbpH

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(3/10/10) Oh "Arrested Development." Why do you continue to taunt us with your refusal to exist?

The on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again, on-again, off-ag... you get the idea-- the highly anticipated big screen revival of Mitch Hurwitz's unjustly canceled Fox comedy series has been careening towards a theatrical feature for some time now. Fans refuse to give up the ghost and entertainment journalists -- many of whom are themselves fans -- won't stop asking for updates. Journalists like MTV's Josh Horowitz, who chatted with series star Jason Bateman briefly on the red carpet at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony.

Bateman kept his response brief and to the point. "Nothing new. We're hoping for the end of the year," he said. Hoping? We heard in January that shooting would commence before the end of the year.

If there's a delay, you can blame "Arrested" star Will Arnett. He's busy working with Hurwitz on a new comedy series. So how will that impact the "Arrested" movie plans?

"His show with [Will] Arnett has pushed it another few months," Bateman said in reference to the new Hurwitz project. Bateman wants the faithful to hang onto their hopes though. "['Arrested' is] still coming," he promised.

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/03/10...-bateman-says/

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So we were talking to Will Arnett the other day. Don't ask why—all shall be revealed in a month or so. But as you may or may not know, Arnett returns to TV in September as the star of "Running Wilde," his next collaboration with "Arrested Development" creator Mitch Hurwitz. And as you may or may not know, "Arrested Development" is one of the great sitcoms of the last decade, possibly ever. Fans of the show (like all of us here at GQ) are frothing, devout, unreasonable creatures, and ever since Hurwitz and Co. dangled the prospect of an "Arrested Development" movie in front of us a few years back, we've been like Gollum chasing after the One Ring. We wants it. We neeeeeds it... But like Gollum, we've been thwarted. At various junctures, the movie has been on, it's been off, crucial cast members have been in, then they've pulled out, yada yada yada. And all along, the project has been shrouded in rumor. Last we heard, the "Arrested" movie was not happening. Sigh.

But! Then we were talking to Will Arnett. And this is what he said: "Yes, it's happening." He went on, but here's the upshot: there is a script—!!!—but it is not finished; all of the principle cast members are on board, but there is no timetable to actually make the movie. So then we called Mitch Hurwitz to make sure that our ears did not deceive us and that Arnett wasn't just pulling our leg. They didn't, and he wasn't.

"Believe it or not, we have started the script," Hurwitz told GQ. (And by "we," he means himself and "Arrested" co-executive producer Jim Vallely.) "We're taking a little abeyance while we get ['Running Wilde'] up and running. But it is our absolute next priority and we can't wait to do it."

So, rejoice! Hurwitz also had a bit more to say: "We're changing some of the Bush references to Obama because we started it awhile ago. And the Bluths may not be vacationing in the Gulf of Mexico anymore. We also might have to recast the part of Uncle Mel, the former action movie star. But other than that we have a clear path."

Of course, the question remains when the movie will actually happen. And that's still the hard part, seeing as it will require the coordination of about a dozen very busy schedules. "As Mitch likes to say," Arnett told us, "we're just going to wait until there's zero interest, and that's when we'll do it."

In the meantime, Hurwitz asked us to pass along an apology to "Arrested" fans for the air of mystery around the movie. "Believe it or not," he says, "I do not enjoy teasing our wonderful and devoted audience, which is one reason it appears that I've been so cagey about this. It's just that I don't want to promise what I can't deliver."

Fair enough. And in that spirit, we promise not to run naked through the streets in celebration.
— Devin Gordon

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But as you may or may not know, Arnett returns to TV in September as the star of "Running Wilde," his next collaboration with "Arrested Development" creator Mitch Hurwitz. And as you may or may not know,

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