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CANCELLED SHOWS FIND NEW LIFE MOVIES
February 10, 2008 -- Once TV shows are cancelled, die-hard TV fans are usually relegated to watching the repeats on DVD or, if they're lucky, on some cable network. But some shows are so beloved that producers see the point of bringing them to the big screen, and it looks like Fox's cult hit, "Arrested Development," is one of these.
Star Jason Bateman ("Juno") has said that Twentieth Century Fox executives have called the cast – which includes Jeffrey Tambor, Portia Di Rossi and Bateman's "Juno" co-star Michael Cera – to see if they'd be up for a big-screen version. Bateman says they would if the show's creator, the hilarious Mitch Hurtwitz, is adequately compensated. Any work on the film would start post writers' strike.
"Arrested Development: The Movie" would follow in the footsteps of Joss Whedon's "Serenity," which was turned into a movie after his Fox TV show, "Firefly," flopped but garnered a rabid fan base.
Full article can be viewed here.
CANCELLED SHOWS FIND NEW LIFE MOVIES
CANCELLED SHOWS FIND NEW LIFE MOVIES
February 10, 2008 -- Once TV shows are cancelled, die-hard TV fans are usually relegated to watching the repeats on DVD or, if they're lucky, on some cable network. But some shows are so beloved that producers see the point of bringing them to the big screen, and it looks like Fox's cult hit, "Arrested Development," is one of these.
Star Jason Bateman ("Juno") has said that Twentieth Century Fox executives have called the cast – which includes Jeffrey Tambor, Portia Di Rossi and Bateman's "Juno" co-star Michael Cera – to see if they'd be up for a big-screen version. Bateman says they would if the show's creator, the hilarious Mitch Hurtwitz, is adequately compensated. Any work on the film would start post writers' strike.
"Arrested Development: The Movie" would follow in the footsteps of Joss Whedon's "Serenity," which was turned into a movie after his Fox TV show, "Firefly," flopped but garnered a rabid fan base.
Full article can be viewed here.
CANCELLED SHOWS FIND NEW LIFE MOVIES
