We haven’t received an update on the progress of the new Arrested Development for Netflix since April, and since all AD fans (me included) are the previously jilted lovers of the internet we need constant affirmation so we don’t lose our minds. Personally, I was a little freaked out when Michael Cera appeared on Comedy Bang! Bang! to sing about friendship and pie with Reggie Watts and didn’t seem George Michael-y enough. Get into character, Cera! We’re all depending on you!
Mercifully, producer and narrator Ron Howard shot out the above tweet out last night, accompanied by the below photo, to qualm the fears of his insecure fanbase. Pretty sure that’s the back of Mitch Hurwitz in the photo, and even if it’s not we’re going to pretend it is anyway. And lookie at all those notecards! Serious brain power is going into this! It’s like they actually have a plan and this is really happening. Yay!
Consider this Arrested Development geek pacified for the moment. Fair warning though: in a month I’ll be requesting a photo of the stair car getting an oil change.
Via IFC
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Jason Bateman also tweeted a picture of himself with Ron Howard and Mitch Hurwitz (like you, I’m assuming that’s who it was) with the message “Taken at AD mission control, today! All systems are go. Filming for the new episodes starts in four weeks.”
Everything went black after I read that.
Very nice research. Definitely Mitch. [twitter.com]
I’m just as excited as everyone else, but I’ve been a little worried about the lack of caution with which people are fully behind this. I mean, yes, it could be potentially everything we’ve always wanted (and more), but at the same time, it could be that everyone involved just isn’t who they were all those years ago and this show won’t be able to catch that same… whatever it was that made it so damned good.
I dunno… ever since I got burned by Wolverine: Origins I just can’t trust my own excitement.
I need to go to Comic-Con and Blue Myself.
Sadly, 2 hours driving in the 90 degree sun would mess up my car interior pretty badly.
Take the stair-car
That’s a mess of index cards. Exciting.
(Qualm = quell and calm?)