Arrested Development movie not dead yet...

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'Arrested Development' movie not dead yet, says Jason Bateman

Fans of the beloved late television series "Arrested Development" let out a collective shriek last week when one of the former show's stars, David Cross, said in an interview that a rumored movie based on the show is "just not going to happen."

"I mean, there's so many people involved. Everyone's doing their own thing, you know. And everybody's aged. It's just not going to happen," Cross told TVSquad.com.

Not so fast, says Jason Bateman, who starred in the program as a widower at the center of an eccentric family.

"David says that it's dead, but it's not dead at all," Bateman said in an interview Friday while promoting "The Switch," a romantic comedy out in August in which he costars with Jennifer Aniston. " Mitch Hurwitz is busy shooting a new pilot with Will Arnett, and perhaps when they're done shooting and editing and he's delivered that, perhaps he'll jump into writing the script. Once the script is done, it goes to the studio and they decide if it's a script they want to make, and the actors will decide if they want to be in it."

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2010/04/arrested-development-movie-not-dead-yet-says-jason-bateman.html


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[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. I'm worried about them having a movie in general.

They tied things up pretty nicely in the TV show. Doing a movie might be a bit superfluous.

I'm afraid of the whole "Strangers with Candy" syndrome--the TV series was so brilliant that there was no way the movie would match up to fans' expectations.

[Quantess]

3. Strangers With Candy, the show, was hilarious!

The movie didn't make me laugh once.

[bif]

2. Dumb idea. Kill it!