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What a 'Fun, Sexy Time' For Us: Jason Bateman Confirms 'Arrested Development' Movie To Shoot Next Year
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 10:20 AM on June 24, 2008
It's been rumoured since the show went off the air two years ago, but it looks the Arrested Development movie is finally a go. While in the UK to promote his upcoming role in the Will Smith vehicle Hancock, costar Jason Bateman let slip that the embattled Bluths are finally reuniting on the big screen:
A big-screen version of Arrested Development is planned for next year. "When it was on TV, if you missed one word the whole third act could be blown for you. And TV is a different experience. You come home and you've got to finish a call so you miss the first ten minutes or you get snacky and you go to the fridge and you miss another two minutes, so it's a different experience to film."
While the cult sitcom may not be able to hit Sex and the City heights on its way to movieplexes, Bateman says it can still claim foreign appeal:
"Arrested Development played late at night in England, so I got a lot of coke addicts and meth freaks. Great. So you've seen me but you just don't remember me." When I suggest that will change since he is in so many films now, he quips again. "So I am a whore, too."
Nonsense, Jason. Everyone knows that Lindsay was the whore.
- Hancock could make Jason Bateman a star at last [The Times]
Tags: afternoon delight | arrested development | jason bateman
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
mason
Posted June 24, 2008 7:15 PM
OH MY GOD please it's say it's true.
Ouch I've just pinched myself pretty damn hard, definitely awake!
ed
Posted June 24, 2008 9:26 PM
Taste the happy Michael..........
The only news I wanted to hear this year. God bless you Mitch Hurwitz
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 10:48 AM 24/6/08
Snackys be damned. Jason needs to buy himself a TiVo.
Little Mintz Sunshine
TwiceShy
Posted 10:38 AM 24/6/08
I thought this was not new... inner circles i guess.
TwiceShy
swensev
Posted 10:33 AM 24/6/08
Finally!! A SATC for us straight sardonic types.
swensev
rdm
Posted 10:31 AM 24/6/08
Oh my god. A fun, sexy time, indeed.
rdm
heidiho
Posted 10:31 AM 24/6/08
I'm in.
heidiho
el smrtmnky
Posted 12:04 PM 24/6/08
@swensev: and us geihs, too.
Jeffrey Tambor was on Craig Ferguson friday and mentioned this. i squealed. out loud. no joke. and then rewound the DVR.
Sexy fun times!!
el smrtmnky
MartyPants
Posted 12:36 PM 24/6/08
Of late I'd been searching for a reason to live. Finally, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
MartyPants
gwendolyn
Posted 12:51 PM 24/6/08
Finally, I would actually get through an episode, albeit a really long one, without having to go all 'Hostel' on my daughter and SO, who never could understand why I found 'AD' so supremely sublime...
gwendolyn
gwendemarco
Posted 1:18 PM 24/6/08
Until then, someone please wrap Jessica Walter in a nice warm cashmere blanket and feed her as if she were veal.
gwendemarco
pureblarney
Posted 1:17 PM 24/6/08
I blue myself!
pureblarney
roxybebop
Posted 4:19 PM 24/6/08
it's the final countdown!!
roxybebop
Wazimu
Posted 4:54 PM 24/6/08
Fire up the cornballer at the concession stand!
Wazimu
HankWankley
Posted 4:33 PM 24/6/08
Bob Loblaw is working out the contracts.
HankWankley
Brooksie
Posted 5:29 PM 24/6/08
This movie is for British eyes only
Brooksie
rdm
Posted 10:12 PM 24/6/08
@TwiceShy: I think that it was all speculation (i.e., "They are talking about doing a movie... Mitch is working on a script...") until now. This is the first confirmation I've seen that they are filming for sure next year :)
@gwendemarco: I think Jessica Walter will be just fine as she is working on the new 90210.
rdm
TheQuestion
Posted 12:34 AM 25/6/08
@rdm: Well, jessica will be alright until the 3rd or 4th episode of the new 90210, when it tanks like a Chevy Chase talk show.
TheQuestion
derby
Posted 4:18 AM 25/6/08
best news of the day/year.
derby
Dave J.
Posted 4:00 AM 25/6/08
Finally my dreams will be realized and we'll get an entire movie devoted to the wacky exploits of Gene Parmesan.
Dave J.
LBJeffries
Posted 5:49 AM 25/6/08
BEES!
LBJeffries
el smrtmnky
Posted 4:54 AM 25/6/08
@Dave J.: /Scream You got me again!
el smrtmnky
brokennails
Posted 7:51 AM 25/6/08
@LBJeffries: LBJeffries is not on board.
brokennails
shag_carpet_bomb
Posted 8:34 AM 25/6/08
oh Jason, you're so adorable, we just pause the DVD when we need a snacky!
I'm so happy, taste the happy :)
shag_carpet_bomb
Crinkelbert_Fishtybuns
Posted 11:33 AM 25/6/08
I almost spit out my hot ham water.
Crinkelbert_Fishtybuns
NoGrumpys
Posted 11:14 AM 25/6/08
I liked him better when he played GAY
oh yeah and I used to have j/o fantasies of him and Rick Schroder on "Silver Spoons"
Silver Spoons seems a little ironic now "snort snort"
NoGrumpys
badhatharry
Posted 1:13 PM 25/6/08
Let's all carpool to Wee Britain to see it! Just remember, they're eight hours ahead of us.
badhatharry
TwiceShy
Posted 3:19 AM 26/6/08
Please no Uncle Jack, I can't look him straight in the eye :(
TwiceShy
gwendemarco
Posted 6:37 AM 26/6/08
@rdm: If they hurt her. They die.
gwendemarco
lonely_goatherd
Posted 12:46 PM 29/6/08
This movie can zing its arrow into my buttocks any time!
lonely_goatherd
TheLemon
Posted 3:58 AM 30/6/08
Excuse me, do these effectively hide my thunder?
Will there be a return of the Bob Loblaw Law Blog?
TheLemon