The model home is opening again next tuesday for shooting the first scenes of the season 4. Will Arnett, who's curently working on the Up All Night show, gives us more detail about the new season and how he'll appear during the whole season.
The Television Critics Association visited the set of “Up All Night” today, and Will Arnett revealed that he is getting ready to shoot the new episodes of “Arrested Development” that Mitch Hurwitz wrote. Hurwitz had said each episode would focus on one member of the Bluth family, but Arnett’s schedule suggests that he will be around for multiple episodes.
“That’s kind of the idea [one character per episode], and then there are bits and pieces of people,” Arnett said after the “Up All Night” panel. “Yeah, it’s going to be interesting. It’s a totally different way to tell the story of these people and these characters and these relationships that we like, so it’s interesting.”
During the panel Arnett had said he’s filling all of his free time with “Arrested Development.”
“Currently the plan is to shoot on hiatuses and weekends because we start that in six days, it’s next Tuesday we start. That’s the current plan, Saturdays and stuff. It’s going to be insane. It’s super well organized. I don't know if you’ve met Mitch Hurwitz.”
After the panel, the reporter that asked Arnett about his schedule followed up to confirm whether or not Hurtwitz was really disorganized. “I’m kidding,” Arnett said. “I want you to print that so he reads it, but no, no, no. He’s not disorganized. He’s a prolific creator and there’s just always a ton of stuff and it’s a lot.”
Arnett confirmed he has read some of the new “Arrested Development” scripts and that he is very happy with them. "Arrested Development" season four is expected to debut on Netflix in 2013.
I can't believe that I didn't see these videos where Mitch talks about the movie, for once it's not Jason Bateman. In these videos Mitch confirms officially the movie production and he gives us some news. What do we learn here ? Two main informations :
A trailer will come out this year
A lot of guests will be in the movie
So we can assume that the shooting is going to start soon enough. We can also imagine to see some guests coming back such as : Zach Braff, Ben Stiller, Charlize Theron or Carl Weather ! We're gonna have only one movie, I think, so it's the occasion to reunite everyone. Here the fist vid :
And the second :
There are other vids from the same interview, I'll talk about it later.
"Yeah, the guy wearing the $4,000 suit is going to do a new TV Show...COME ON !"
Now let's talk about Running Wilde, the last baby of Mitch Hurwitz and Will Arnett.Everybody was waiting for it but did we really need Running Wilde ?The answer is "yes" we always need a new show wrote by Mitch but no necesseraly on Fox. Arrested Development was to clever for the channel, "Sit Down, Shut Up" was not made for Fox and Running Wilde was simply useless for Fox. At first there was a contract signed between Will Arnett and Fox (see the article about it) and Will was free to choose whoever he wants to work with.With no surprises he choose Mitch Hurwitz and together they made Running Wilde who was called at first "Wilde Kingdom".
Let's see the plot :
The show centers on Steve Wilde (Will Arnett), a self-centered billionaire who is clueless about most things in the real world. Emmy Kadubic (Keri Russell) is Steve's high school sweetheart. When the series opens, she is an activist that lives in a rain forest along with her fiance Andy (David Cross) and daughter Puddle (Stefania Owen). Puddle refuses to speak at first, as an attempt to get her mother to move out of the rain forest. Steve invites Emmy to a party where he is to accept an award. Surprised at the thought that Steve has finally become a better person, she decides to go. When at the party, she soon finds out that he is giving the award to himself, which is more like what she expected.
The next day Puddle speaks to a drunk Steve about what she thinks about living in the jungle. Steve briefly thinks that the conversation is telepathic even though her mouth is moving. Steve and Puddle stage an intricate scenario to fool Emmy into to staying at Steve's mansion, which fails. Emmy scolds Steve about taking advantage of a young girl who does not speak, and Steve takes the blame for Puddle's plan. This causes Puddle to speak to her mother, telling her that Steve must have some morality left in him, since he lied for her without gaining anything. Puddle explains that she doesn't like living in a jungle, and she wants to stay with Steve. Emmy agrees to stay for Puddle, but only in the treehouse Steve originally built for her when they were young. As Steve tries to win back Emmy, she vows to change him into a more selfless person.
The idea was clearly good and the material was here to do a good show, maybe not as great as Arrested but still a good show.
At this point I was hopefull about the whole thing. Meanwhille the AD's movie was put on "pause".
And then came out the first trailer :
After seeing this I was disappointed and scared for the show. The trailer was simply not good at all, what a shame for us fans of Mitch.
But the airing date for the first episode came and I watched it, maybe I was in a good mood that day but I've appreciate it. Don't misunderstand my words, appreciate doesn't mean it was really good.
In fact the pilot was far from being great, it was just good and I'll tell more about it on a future article.
Even if I liked it, the critics were not enthusiast about Running Wilde :
Wilde is a fast-paced grab bag; it's hard not to like a character who dunderheadedly imports an Amazon tribe to a five-star hotel rather than tell his dad not to drill on their land, all to prove he's a decent guy. But for now, audiences will have to sort through the good stuff and toss aside the lumps of coal that keep "Wilde" from being a truly wild ride.
The writing here isn't very snappy, Steve and Emmy are one-dimensional cutouts and Russell, the former "Felicity" star, looks uncomfortable playing it for laughs.
While the reworked pilot is a marked improvement over the original, the parts are still not working together, but you'd like to believe they will be in a few episodes.
Good comedies take a lot of work, but that strain shouldn't show up on the screen. It pains me to say that, despite all the obvious effort, I can't see how Running Wilde could get significantly better.
So why everyone was disappointed ?
The first lead for an answer is the "Arrested Development Effect" (I'm gonna call that the "ADE"), when we talk about Mitch, Will, Jason Bateman and the whole AD's cast we always mention Arrested Development and how great the sho was. It's great to not forget the serie but It's a trap for Mitch and Will in the Running Wilde's case. We were waiting for a second Arrested Development but it's not gonna happen, whatever you think. Arrested was a financial waste for Fox and they're not stupid to ask Mitch for a show like that again. C'mon ! Do you really think it was possible ?
Mitch and Will understood that very well and like the Coca Light they made an "Arrested Development Light", a serie with no sugar. No sugar ? No real interest for us.
Once again the strategy was wrong, people were not interested by RW because of is lack of taste, but Mitch said interesting things about his strategy, I'll talk about that after.
Seriously if you've watched the show you're gonna be agree with me, the serie seemed so faker. Everything was superficial, maybe it was an artistic choice to highlight the superficiality of Steve Wilde ? But I don't think so. We don't believe in the universe of the show.
But not everything in Running Wilde was bad, they were some good ideas and some good episodes like :
No seriously you'll see in future articles about the episodes.
So I've said that the strategy wasn't good, do we really know what is the real strategy ?
Month ago I read an interview of Mitch, for Running Wilde he wanted to start the show in a simple way and put everything in place gradually unlike AD where all the pieces were there at the beginning.
To conclude I would say that Running Wilde is not good but is not bad also, Mitch & Will missed the potential of the show.
Hi everyone, these days I really miss Arrested Development and I'm thinking about get back to basics like watch again the 3 seasons and make this blog alive again !
Now I'm here !
Hum...well ok you don't believe right now but you'll see.
But I have to give you an explanation about the reasons of the lack of updates. It's simple :
The news are still the same !
And I was like "okay it's not my priority to work on the blog..." So I apologize about that and I'm back for real and for good.
And now let's see the latest news :
The first is a news for the website TvGawker and Will Arnett is talking :
Arrested Development movie updates? We're in the midst of Running Wilde and we're unable to focus on anything else, but it is something we plan on doing. I can't really speak to Mitch's timetable but I would suspect that it's going to be sooner rather than later now, I will say that.
David Cross said in an interview that he knows the storyline and it's "awesome." Yeah there's some really funny stuff, some really funny ideas being kicked around. It's Mitch's call on how anything goes.
Can you give us a hint? A taste? Something? I really can't, it would be far too premature. But if it goes in the direction Mitch is suggesting, it'll be super hilarious.
It seems that the AD's movie is still alive ! You want another proof ? Let see a declaration of Mitch Hurwitz from AVClub :
AVC: So what is the status of the film? It’s the inescapable question.
MH: It is my absolute next priority. I’ve said we’re about halfway through it, but I’m including a lot of the stories as part of that half. It’s the next thing I do as soon as I get a breath from [Running Wilde]. If it gets picked up for a back nine, I’ll have people in place to do this and I can go finish that. It is my biggest creative priority. It’s very frustrating I haven’t had time to do it. I’ve been having to do other things, but it’s time and money. It’s part of, you know, the thing I’ve built for myself here. This house of cards. I have to say, people think I’m more successful than I am, and I appreciate that. I think. I don’t know if I care I, guess. But I’m a working guy. I’m not joking, though, if I had Cocoon, all bets would be off.
Keep in touch with the blog, I'll talk about Running Wilde and the Arrested Development Doc.
I don't really think that the Arrested Development is not gonna happen, I'm very hopefull about it but it's true we have a lack of information, no real news. Just phrases like "It's gonna happen, it's up to Mitch !". It seems that Mitch Hurwitz it's pretty busy right now, but this project can't be dead. It's the most anticpated movie for 2010 ! So in my own opinion the movie will came out next year, on ZAP2it someone think in a different way :
It's been over a year since buzz about an "Arrested Development" film first began circulating. And when cast members confirmed shortly thereafter that a big screen version of the FOX series was indeed in development, fan excitement was legitimized.
In January, executive producer Mitch Hurwitz even told the press that a distribution deal with Fox Searchlight was more or less in place.
However, when I spoke with Hurwitz one-on-one that month, he also said that the "Arrested" movie was far from actually shooting, since he couldn't come up with a story until he knew exactly which cast members were on board.
Of course, at that time, the lone hold out was the series' break out star Michael Cera (George Michael), so waiting to know whether or not he'd be involved, before starting to write, made sense.
But Cera signed on to do the film in late February.
And it is now August and sources say Hurwitz has not yet begun writing.
"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."
Of course Hurwitz has been busy with pilot project upon pilot project this year, not to mention FOX's "Sit Down, Shut Up," and his work load doesn't seem to be dwindling, having just announced a new TV venture with "Arrested" alum Will Arnett earlier this week.
So, yeah, don't think this "Arrested" movie thing is happening... though passionate commentary from the diehard "Arrested" fan base could make a difference.
One week ago I was talking about a profect of a new TV show created by Mitchell Hurwitz and Will Arnett, this project seems to become real. The contract between Arnett and Fox gives to him all the power to create what he wants. So it's not a surprise if he works with Mitch Hurwitz and Jim Vallely for this untitled serie.
You cand read the original article here :
The Emmy-winning series' creator/executive producer, Mitch Hurwitz, co-star Will Arnett and co-executive producer Jim Vallely have teamed for another single-camera Fox comedy. It stars Arnett as a rich Beverly Hills jackass who falls in love with a charitable tree-hugging woman who can't stand his lifestyle or values.
The project, which has received a script commitment, is being written by Hurwitz, Arnett and Vallely. The comedy is the first project to come out of the development pact that Arnett inked with Fox in October. Arnett recently lent his voice to "Sit Down, Shut Up," Hurwitz's animated comedy for Fox.
Hurwitz and Vallely won two 2005 Emmys for writing the "Righteous Brothers" episode of "Development."
Arnett earned Emmy nominations for his role as part-time magician Gob Bluth on "Development" and for his recent recurring role on NBC's "30 Rock." The actor, who co-stars in "G-Force," will next be seen in "When in Rome" and "Jonah Hex."
If you like GOB/Will Arnett, on October 14 you will able to watch a new Walt Disney movie called G-Force where Arnett plays a certain Kip Killian.
Synopsis :
A specially trained squad of guinea pigs is dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire from taking over the world.
But more important than this movie, I found on internet an interview of Arnett where he talks about the G-Force movie and his projects. This interviews confirms what we suspected about his deal with Fox, if you didn't know about the deal you can read this :
Will Arnett is making his way back to FOX thanks to a handsome and somewhat unique development deal.
The former "Arrested Development" star and two-time Emmy nominee has returned to the network and will work on developing a comedy series. That's not all that unusual. The terms of the agreement are, however.
Arnett will have a high degree of creative control over any project, the showbiz trade papers report. He'll have a say in which writers and directors he works with and input on the show's concept. The deal also isn't connected to a particular studio, which will allow Arnett more latitude in choosing his partners.
So what Will Arnett is actually doing ? He's working with Mitch Hurwitz for a new comedy TV show ! That's wath he said on the interview :
Arnett has a slew of other projects in development, none of which involves working with rodents. Two of them reunite him with Mitchell Hurwitz, who created the cult-favorite series "Arrested Development" (2003-2006), on which Arnett starred as George Bluth II, aka "Gob."
"I'm writing a new show for Fox with the creator of 'Arrested Development," the actor said. "We'll also do an 'Arrested Development' movie in the next year or so. Those are the projects that get me up in the morning."
However he also talks a little bit about the Arrested Development movie but there is no big news :
"Arrested Development" fans have never quite accepted the show's cancellation, so they're already eagerly anticipating the movie. The feeling is mutual, Arnett says.
"I'm with the fans in that I'm really looking forward to revisiting these characters," he said. "I will have to beg Mitch for some mercy for George. I'm sure I'll be in some interesting situations in the movie."
So how about some inside dirt? Will the whole original cast be back, including Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Portia de Rossi and Jeffrey Tambor? Anything about the plot?
Arnett shakes his head.
"Honestly, I'm not sure who is on board," he said. "I do know that everyone is prepared to do the movie. But I don't hear things officially. That's out of my pay scale."
If you miss Tony Hale you have to watch his new Web series called "Ctrl"on nbc.com where he plays an office nerd named Stuart.
The show is based on a short film named "Ctrl Z" in which Tony Hale also starred.
On the Chicagonow blog we can read an interview where Tony talks about his disire to play Buster again in the movie.
You can read the whole article here :
Tony Hale is ready for the "Arrested Development" movie.
"I want to wear Buster's hand again," he told me during a phone interview on Thursday. "I want to wear the hook again."
Hale was on a call with journalists promoting his new Web series at nbc.com, "Ctrl," but I had to ask him about the film version of the cult TV series in which he played Buster Bluth, the socially inept and panic-attack prone youngest Bluth brother whose left hand was bitten off by a seal.
"We all want it to happen," he said of the cast members and the show's creator, Mitchell Hurwitz. "It's just a matter of getting everybody's schedule together. Everybody's kind of doing their own thing."
He said coordinating the schedules of so many cast members--Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Will Arnett, Jeffrey Tambor, David Cross, Alia Shawkat, Portia de Rossi, Jessica Walter and Justin Lee--is 'kind of a feat."
"But we're definitely all on board and the script is supposedly in the works," he said. "We all want it to happen, so we'll see--hopefully."
Hale does know that he will be returning to "Chuck" next season, saying that filming for the NBC comedy begins Aug. 6. He plays Emmett Milbarge, who took over the Buy More temporarily and caused all kinds of trouble for Chuck, Big Mike, Morgan, Lester and Jeff.
"I don't really know where the storyline is going, but I know I'm doing the first episode," Hale said. "I don't know what's going to happen to Emmett. He's obviously caused some drama in the Buy More, so we'll see what happens to him."
We doesn't hear enough Mitch Hurwitz, that's why I've decided to bring to you a radio interview who date from last christmas. Mitch talks a lot about the movie and it could be interesting for those who've never heard this interview :
There is the update that I've been waiting all night !
corpse_was_a_good_mantold us a little bit more about this famous scene. So I let you read the post he left on IMDB :
"So we showed up at the theater. Our job was to be audience members giving a standing ovation behind will arnett delivering a line (that no one could hear)
Mitch was on set the entire time... for most of the 5 hours we were there we did some incedental crowd shots and multiple shots to be composited for audience cloning..
No cameras were allowed, couldn't get much for you guys. I really only witnessed 30 seconds of what will be the final movie.
Anyway, feel free to ask any questions.. (arnett was the only original cast member on set, just to set that straight right now, and i didn't recognize anyone else who was being focused on."
That description of the scene brings me to my first idea, for me it's not a scene shot for the movie but more for a commercial. It's seems to be the most plausible idea...
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