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Our friends over at Arrested Development Documentary recently got some good publicity. Check it out.

...and if you don't know about the Doc yet, check it out and show your support for what they are doing.




Yup, there's an Arrested Development documentary, and the trailer is below. I didn't even know this film was coming out, but it looks like it's the ultimate drug for hardcore AD fans (at least until the movie comes out). Besides the cast and crew being interviewed, we also see comments from people like Andy Richter, Keith Olbermann, and many other fans.


Original Link: http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/06/19/i-didnt-even-realize-there-was-an-arrested-development-document/

Progress On ‘Arrested Development’ Movie Slows As Creator Concentrates On Other Projects, Says Ron Howard

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Published by Eric Ditzian on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 11:56 am.

If you’re like any of us at MTV News, you’re probably wondering what keeps holding up the big screen adaptation of “Arrested Development” from moving forward. Well, now we have our answer: the new Fox show, “Sit Down, Shut Up.”

Mitch Hurwitz’s animated comedy debuted earlier this month, and between writing and producing that series, and developing other television projects, the “Arrested” creator hasn’t had a chance to start writing a script for his Emmy-winning Fox show that was canceled in 2006, says “Arrested” producer/narrator Ron Howard.

“Still waiting on a script,” Howard told MTV News this week. “Mitch’s television company was very successful—good for Mitch—and slowed things up a little bit for ‘Arrested Development’ fans.”

While not actively writing a script, Hurwitz is still keeping the wheels turning when it comes to the Bluth family and their particular brand of dysfunctional dark comedy. “Mitch is into it,” said Howard. “He’s thinking about it. He’s told me some of the ideas. They’re hilarious. But he hasn’t pulled it together into a script—that I know of! Maybe he’ll see this and email me something.”

Howard also said that castmembers remained committed to the project. “Every time I bump into anyone from the show—everybody’s excited,” Howard said, which is great news considering all the “is he in or is he out?” gossip that has surrounded the adaptation.

But don’t expect casting news regarding Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Michael Cera and others any time soon: in February, Howard told us, “We’ve been asked to no longer divulge anything or get into the game of who’s in, who’s out. People are going to have to see.”

When the movie does get going in earnest, Hurwitz will assume directing duties, while Howard will produce. And, thankfully, he’ll be hanging on to one other position as well. “Nobody can keep me from being the narrator,” Howard said. “That’s my gig, buddy!”

Steve Holt

Name: Steve Holt
Nickname: Steve Holt!
Son of: GOB Bluth and Eve Holt
Acting Experience: Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing
Years as Student Body President: 4, every year after his first junior year
Student Body President Campaign Slogan: Volt for Steve Holt!
Yearbook Activities: Football, Drama, Food Services
Accomplishments: Father-Son Triathlon champions
Portrayed by: Justin Grant Wade
Steve Holt Yearbook Quotes:

• "I'm out of here!"
• "See ya, suckers!"
• "Study hard guys - trust me."
  

Steve Holt Quotes:

• "STEVE HOLT!"
• "Don't ask can I? Ask I can."
• "Control your bladder when you're dead!"
• "There's no 'I' in win!"
• "Nice pout dad!"
• "Nice translating dad!"
  
• "They're called oxy-incontinent."

Oscar Bluth

Name: Oscar Bluth
Occupation: ...
Father of: Buster Bluth
Twin Brother of: George Bluth, Sr.
Websites: imoscar.com, podcast
Favorite Marijuana Brands: Afternoon Deelite, Sweet Freedom, Tropical Breeze
Military Experience: Croc spotter
Vehicle: Humble trailor
Favorite Cookie: Any cookies with no preservatives
Pilgrimage: 420 mile walk (has never made it past UC-Irvine)
Songs: All You Need Are Smiles

• Made Joan Baez call him the shallowest man in the world
• Written for David Cassidy, who "was going to sing it on the Mike Douglas show, but he was too embarrassed to do it in front of John and Yoko."

Pairs of pants: 2
Portrayed by: Jeffrey Tambor
Oscar Bluth Quotes:

• "You're drunk!"
• "I hate the grind. You have to grind so many fucking lemons."
• "I only have a hanger for a lock."

Maeby Fünke

Name: Maeby Fünke
Marital Status: Married (to George-Michael Bluth)
Known Aliases: Surely Wolfe
Fake Diseases: B.S.
Parents: Lindsay Fünke and Tobias Fünke
Occupation: Film executive, Banana Stand, Student
Bands: Dr. Fünke's 100% Natural Good Time Family-Band Solution
Schooling: Public school, Openings
Boys she's kissed: George-Michael Bluth, Annyong Bluth, Steve Holt
Relatives she's kissed: None, unrelated to all of them
Strengths: Good little climber, cons, lying
Weaknesses: Spelling, Math, Geography
Portrayed by: Alia Shawkat
Maeby Fünke quotes:

• "Marry me."
• "Holy crap that's going to look good on a hat."
• "Babysit me."
• "Maybe we just need a new fucking housekeeper."
• "I drugged him to not go all the way with him."
  

Lindsay Fünke

Name: Lindsay Fünke
Marital Status: Married (to Tobias Fünke)
Mother of: Maeby Fünke
Parents: Unknown, adopted by Lucille Bluth and George Bluth, Sr. (Almost a Sitwell)
Occupation: Actress, Entrepreneur, Administrative Assistant for Bluth Company, Housewife, Maid, Musician, Shopgirl
Plastic Surgery: Rhinoplasty
Bands: Dr. Fünke's 100% Natural Good Time Family-Band Solution
Culinary Expertise: Hot ham water
Favorite Clothing Store: Neiman's
Business Ventures: Mommy, What Will I Look Like?, Dip-A-Pet
Philanthropies: Hands of our Penises (H.O.O.P.), Neuterfest, Drying the Wetlands, Stop Global Hunger
Movies: Men With Low Self-Esteem
Beliefs on Alcohol: Wine only turns into alcohol if you let it sit, Vodka goes bad after you open it, Grapefruit turns into alcohol
Portrayed by: Portia de Rossi
Lindsay Fünke Quotes:

• "You call yourself an environmentalist, why don't you go club a few beavers."
• "How do you not have sex with me?"
• "I hope that's not a crack about my hair color, lips, forehead, nose, and teeth, because at least I'm not wearing a rayon sweater-vest on my face."
• "Hey, check out who's on that hog in the rear-view mirror."
  

David Cross discusses Arrested Development movie

All Crossed Out: David Cross talks Arrested Development Flick by Staff | 04.07.2009 David Cross really gets around. Every role he takes on, regardless of size, is guaranteed to be memorable, and his unique comedic style remains ever-fresh. From building birdhouses in Eternal Sunshine to his best Allen Ginsberg in I'm Not There, Cross is always quite the character. In the upcoming Issue 27 of our Good Music Guide, FILTER caught up with the man to discuss what he has on his plate at the moment, right on the heels of news that the most exciting TV-series-to-film adaptation ever, Arrested Development, looks like it actually is going to be made, after all. Here's a snippet. What can you say about the Arrested Development movie? I can tell you it’s definitely almost positively going to be shot. They’re trying to nail everyone down now. The script’s been ordered and has been green-lit, and they’re hoping to shoot in fall or winter of this year. I’m actually—whatever the legal term is—engendered to not discuss, but I can tell you, I know the idea, and the idea is fucking awesome. And it’s very Arrested Development.

Tobias Fünke

Name: Tobias Fünke
Nicknames: T, Uncle T-Bag, Tobi
Marital Status: Married (to Lindsay Fünke)
Father of: Maeby Fünke
Occupations: Chief resident of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Analrapist, Musician, Actor, Security Guard, Blue Man Group understudy, High school theater director, Owner of The Queen Mary, Administrative Assistant for the Bluth Company, Co-founder of Gobias Industries,
Acting Roles: Frightened inmate #2, Confidence Man #2, George Bluth, Sr. (Scandal Makers), Torture Victim #4
Books: The Man Inside Me
Videos: Families With Low Self-Esteem
Bands: Dr. Fünke's 100% Natural Good Time Family Band Solution, Whip-and-Snaps Barber Shop Quartet
Psychiatric Afflictions: Never-nude
Physical Afflictions: Graft vs. Host
Portrayed by: David Cross
Tobias Fünke Quotes:

• "I just blue myself."
• "Do these effectively hide my thunder?"
• "Even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up."
• "Let Lilly lick Lionel's lusty leathers."
• "Don't leave your uncle T-Bag hanging"
• "I’m afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run if you will, so I’m afraid I have something of a mess on my hands."
• "If I may take off my acting pants for a moment and pull my analrapist stocking over my head…"
• "OH MY GOD, WE'RE HAVING A FIRE...sale."
• "Douche chill!"
• "And second-of-ly, I know you're the big marriage expert. Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, your wife is dead."
• "Ah, the clumsy adolescence, it's a phase we've all been through. Except for me, I was like a cat. I always ended up on all fours...like a cat."
  

Gob's Program

Gob's Program?

Buster Bluth

Name: Buster Bluth
Legal Name: Byron Bluth
Nickname: Baby Buster
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Post-graduate, former copy room/construction worker for Bluth Company
Son of: Lucille Bluth & Oscar Bluth
Sports Played: None, he was just a turd out there
Schooling: Milford Academy
Scholarly Pursuits: Cartography, Native Indian tribal ceremonies, sleep deprivation, 18th Century Agrarian Business, effects of THC, playing with himself
Pets: Mother (turtle)
Suffers from: Crippling panic attacks, Oedipus Complex, and is legally blind at night
Women he's chased: Lucille Austero, Starla, Adelaide, Lupe, Lucille Bluth?
Toughest, Most Street-smart kid he knows: George-Michael Bluth
Favorite Movies: Chicago, Star Wars
Fears: Seals, the ocean, Catalina, confined spaces, active duty
Skills: Skill crane, Army skills, Seal (for marksmanship), Gorilla (for sand racing)
Magazine Covers: Balboa Bay Window
Awards: Cutest Couple, Saddest
Portrayed by: Tony Hale
Buster Bluth Quotes:

• "Hey brother"
• "I'm a monster!"
• "Cause I'm an uptight...[expletives deleted]...Buster!...[expletives deleted]...YOU OLD HORNY SLUT!"
• "Mom says it's too windy."
• "Yeah, like anyone would want to 'r' her."
• "I like making love to mother."
  

Arrested Development Drinking Game

My brother and I have developed an Arrested Development drinking game. It combines two of my favorite things in the world. Beer and Arrested Development. There's only one rule, and that is you must take a drink every time the show repeats itself.

Take a drink when:

• Tobias makes an oblivious homosexual reference (Even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up)
• any character says "her?"
• "NO TOUCHING!"
• Kitty shows her breasts
• there is a Hop-on reference
• Michael asks "Who?" (referring to Ann)
• Michael refers to Ann as something besides Ann (egg, yam, Annhog)
  
• "STEVE HOLT"
  
• there is any reference to Michael being a robot (not crying)
• there is George Michael-Maeby relationship reference.
• a character utters the phrase, "the mere fact that you call it that"
• someone references Stan Sitwell's alopecia
• Lucille rips on Lindsay's appearance
• "I've made a huge mistake"
• there is a never-nude comment
• someone does a chicken impression and/or dance
• there is a reference to the OC (don't call it that)
• Oscar makes a father remark about Buster
• "Marry me"
• "Well, that was a freebie"
• there is an illusion-trick standoff
• George Michael does his best Star Wars moves
• "Annyong"
• Cops mob a character (with the club beating at the end)
• "Hey brother"
• "You certainly have a type."
  

Lucille Bluth

Name: Lucille Bluth
Marital Status: Married (to George Bluth, Sr.)
Also Goes By: Gangy
Occupation: Co-Chair of Bluth Foundation, Former USO Performer
Residence: Balboa Towers
Key Attributes: She gets off on being withholding, Alcoholism, Emotionally demoralizing her children
Awards: Motherboy Cutest Couple
Magazine Covers: Balboa-Bay Window
Least Favorite Restaurant: Klimpy's
Chief Social Rival: Lucille Austero
Television Appearances: World's Worst Drivers
Daughter of: Nana
Biological Mother of: G.O.B. Bluth, Michael Bluth, Buster Bluth
Legal Guardian of: Lindsay Fünke, Annyong Bluth
Portrayed by: Jessica Walter
Lucille Bluth Quotes:

• "Oscar, close it, you look like the window to a butcher shop."
• "You're high!"
• "Everything they do is so dramatic and flamboyant. It just makes me want to set myself on fire."
• "Do you boys know how to shovel coal?"
• "Oh, hello Buster. Here's a candy bar. No, I'm withholding it. Look at me, getting off! "
• "Mama horny Michael."
• "How am I supposed to find someone willing to go into that musty old claptrap?"
• "No juice for you, you just get more awful."
  

Movie Looks Like a Go

Link: http://www.411mania.com/movies/news/97878/%5BMovies%5D-The-Latest-on-Arrested-Development.htm


Michael Cera reportedly is in!

According to E! Online, Michael Cera, who was the last major hold out for the proposed Arrested Development film is now reportedly ready to reprise his role as George Michael Bluth for the film.

Also, E! Online is reporting that Oscar winning director Ron Howard, who served as the executive producer for the Fox series, will direct the movies for Fox Searchlight. Howard recently stated…

"It's looking very much like we're going to make [the movie], but we've now been asked to stop offering any details. It's cloaked in a little mystery, but it's looking good."

Mitchell Hurwitz, who created the series, is currently working on the script. The film could begin shooting by the end of 2009.

Movie News...Well, One Man's Opinion

Link: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/5-0&fp=49901eb0070dbe74&ei=UomQSeL-BoaqNqD7-a8K&url=http%3A//www.dailytexanonline.com/movie_column_will_arrested_sell_on_the_big_screen-1.1360142&cid=0&sig2=-3J1PAJbeP5tpPkDc6pDIA&usg=AFQjCNFWI0hGALT5RyTwLLG-lVU5ONcMFQ

Daily Texan Staff

Published: Monday, February 9, 2009

Rumors of an Arrested Development movie have been swirling for months; Everyone from Will Arnett to Jason Bateman has displayed interest in reprising their parts. The show’s creator, Mitchell Hurwitz, dropped hints last week that a movie was on.

Only Michael Cera, George Michael, recently said that he wanted to see the script before committing. Cera, star of movies such as “Juno” and “Superbad,” finds himself in the peculiar position of having to shake off the effects of stereotyping without displeasing the show’s unusually vocal fans.

“Arrested Development” fans feel a strong sense of ownership when it comes to the Bluth family; They have hijacked the show’s comedic style and cult status to assert their own intellectual identity. They want a mainstream movie out of this — perhaps to validate their good taste — while claiming that the show’s low ratings were a sign that it was too classy for most audiences.

This declaration sidesteps the curious fact that the show was willing to indulge in supposedly low-brow slapstick. In truth, “Arrested Development” tried a little bit of everything: goofy lines, risque lines, awkward pauses, non-sequiturs, inside jokes, obvious jokes, jokes that make you laugh out loud, jokes that make you smile inwardly, verbal puns, visual puns — and then each of these styles layered on some of the others.

Take, for instance, Tobias Funke and his obsession with the Blue Man Group, a minor narrative arc that extends mainly over the course of season two. At different points, whether or not Tobias is in the frame, his (blue) palm prints can be spotted all over the house and, a couple of times, even on his brother-in-law Michael’s shirt. On one level, this is funny because of the visual gag. On another level, it is funny in a surreal way to be confronted by a character who for no particular reason is obsessed with men covered in a coat of blue paint. On a third level, the joke is a pun on the fact that the Bluth family is engaged in the business of building model homes. (The link: blueprints.)

The main reason for the show’s failure was not narrative complexity. It was that viewers were overwhelmed by the different kinds of jokes flying toward them, seemingly without pattern. Self-indulgence in a sitcom works effectively until the audience begins to lose the thread.

Although the show created an arc of intimacy between the Bluth family and the viewer, the characters were extraordinarily unsympathetic. “Arrested Development” went about its business without seeming to care if jokes on themes such as incest — controversial under any circumstances ­— might alienate viewers.

Hurwitz is under pressure from the fan base to deliver a script abound with arbitrary jokes. He will want to persist with this degree of cleverness for artistic reasons. And with any luck, it would pay off with movie audiences, since cinema holds greater pretensions to art than television.

The presence of familiar faces like Cera and Portia de Rossi cannot hurt a complex film’s box-office chances. And given the show’s politics — the plot centered on the situation in Iraq and weapons of mass destruction — the movie script might address the current financial crisis.

An Arrested Development movie will follow in the tradition of TV shows like “Sex and the City,” “The Simpsons” and “Miami Vice,” which all made the transition to big-budget cinema, but unlike those films, “Arrested Development” will probably evoke the feel of an indie production.

Then again, with Ron Howard presumably having a hand, you never know.

It is conceivable that an Arrested Development film might go on to influence the course of comedy in mainstream cinema. Then again, it might not. It’s “Arrested Development.”

David Cross on Movie

Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/cross-arrested-film-still-possibility/story.aspx?guid=%7B1E5A8B58-935F-4E89-86C1-47AF0B26E8A0%7D&dist=msr_1

NEW YORK, Feb 1, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Comedian David Cross says there still appears to be a possibility of seeing a film version of the defunct U.S. TV series "Arrested Development."

While Cross, who played Tobias Funke on the former FOX series, admitted to not knowing much about the potential film production, he assured "Arrested" fans that things appeared to be headed in the right direction, the New York Post reported Sunday.

"I'll tell you what I know, which is, I don't know," Cross told the Post. "But that's better than what it was prior to the last four months, which was, It's not gonna happen."

Cross said "Arrested" creator Mitch Hurwitz had already contacted him about the possibility of revisiting his former TV role in a film version.

The comedian also spoke with the Post about his reported new show with Bob Odenkirk, with whom he created the TV comedy "Mr. Show."

"Bob and I wrote some stuff, had a great time writing and shooting it and everybody was psyched," said Cross, who added the editing process for the show was less than inspiring.

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