Cera holding out on ‘Development’

A month ago, Jeffery Tambor, one of the stars of the cancelled TV show “Arrested Development” announced that a film version was now underway. Many fans of the show were hesitant, as they believed that it would be difficult to gather the original cast to make the film…it turns out that the cast agreed to star; but for one exception.

In a recent interview, the mastermind behind Development, Mitch Hurwitz stated that contrary to rumors that both Will Arnett, and Michael Cera had not agreed to do the project; that Arnett has in fact agreed.

I don’t want to talk about who is holding out right now because we might still work that out and I don’t want to pressure anyone through the press. Although I will say that Will Arnett is gung-ho, so there’s a big clue!

This seems to imply that Michael Cera, who has recently found success in movies like Superbad and Nick and Norah’s Infinate Playlist, is the only cast member who has not agreed to star.

As a recent fan of Arrested Development it worries me to think that Cera’s character George Michael might not be in the movie version, as I feel that his character is one of, and sometimes the only character actually grounding the show. I feel that without him, the movie might feel like an extra long episode of Kath and Kim.

For those who don’t know, Arrested Development was basically a comedy about Michael Bluth, a widower who is forced to keep his large and dysfunctional family together after his father is arrested for shifty accounting practices.

Though I an a little worried that this might be the case, I am confident that the writers will be able to make a movie of as high quality as the TV show.  For the entire interview with Mitch Hurwitz, you can head over to Fancast.

~ by Simon on December 28, 2008.