For the love of god, let’s put an end to all this and just get it going already. Rumors have been swirling for years, it seems like, about cult TV favorite Arrested Development getting a big-screen treatment. Will they? Won’t they? Not that I’m actually scooping anything, since there is an iMDB record and everything, but I did hear today that there is DEFINITELY an AD movie in the works.
At the press interviews for the delightful Whip It, co-star Alia Shawkat (AD‘s Maeby Funke, all grows up now) confirmed that creator Mitchell Hurwitz was busy typing his little fingers off to get a screenplay done and that they could be starting production soon. She hasn’t signed anything official yet, but she said the cast was asked if they were game and available, and everyone said, “Yeah!”
Thank god, now we can stop sweating it and imagine just how twisted a feature-length movie with the f’ed Bluths will be. Oh, and my cool interviews with Whip It‘s director Drew Barrymore, star Ellen Page and some other choice members of the cast — including the adorable Shawkat (who plays Page’s BFF in the film) — are coming up.