Last year, Netflix landed the exclusive to bring back Arrested Development, and now creator Mitch Hurwitz is talking a little bit about what will happen in the upcoming fourth season.
On Tuesday at the Netflix panel at the National Association of Broadcasters convention, Hurwitz said that the next season would be more of an anthology and that not every Bluth would be shown in every episode. This could be a possible way to re-introduce characters before the movie comes out, but Hurwitz didn't say anything about the movie.
It's been five years since the show went off the air, changing the style of the show will account for all the major actors different projects and shows they will be doing at the same time. In each episode we will "meet the characters, where they have been one at a time," Hurwitz said. "That is evolving into the old show again, even though the concept is slightly different."
Unlike a traditional weekly release of episodes, Netflix is likely to use the same model they did with Lilyhammer have the entire season able to stream when the show premieres. Netflix exec Ted Sarandos noted that the show remains extremely popular and has only grown over time with many fans wanting the show right now.
"The seeds for a Netflix reunion came from a simple party conversation with Ron Howard, that let to a meeting with Brian Grazer, which led to a meeting with Mitch Hurwitz, which led to a meeting with Gary Newman at Fox," Sarandos explained, with cast members Arnett, David Cross, Alia Shawkat, Tambor and Jessica Walter. "It was clear that everybody wanted to come back; we just need to figure out how to make it work with everyone's incredibly busy schedules. We decided not to follow the conventional definition of a season; we would produce exactly how many episodes were needed to tell the story."
Like the cast and crew, Hurwitz also stated that he was excited to get back to the show and tackle the new format that he wants to use for Netflix. During the panel he said, "We were very fortunate to get on the air with a show that was very different at its time, and there is something very exciting about doing that again in this new format, especially dropping all of these episodes at the same time."
[via THR]
