Mitch Hurwitz spoke with Vulture, in his first interview since they started shooting the next season of Arrested Development. Mitch couldn’t give away too much info – other than, at some point, Michael will walk through a sliding door – but he did expound upon how the show will be different:
[Netflix chief content officer] Ted Sarandos and I have really spent a lot of time finding the ideal way to tailor the show to their platform and I think we have something that embraces the new medium.
He continued:
The episodes are an outgrowth of the design of what we hope will be the movie. They precede it. They function as an act one of a movie that we all want to do, but haven’t “sold” yet. The episodes take the audience through the experiences of the characters since the family “fell apart” and how they’re brought together to deal with their new problems. I would give you a hint as to what those problems are, but, really, why rob the fans of being disappointed when they see it on Netflix.
He went on to explain: “Each episode is about a character — but we’ll see them in each other’s shows.” Meaning the show will be quite different structurally. Hurwitz also told Vulture that visually the show will be very, very slightly different looking:
One of the lesser known realities of the shrinking television [business] is that studios strip the walls and sell off the props when shows are cancelled. So many of the elements we’re revisiting have needed to be rebuilt or made. So some of the changes are subtle. For instance they discontinued the carpet we used in Lucille’s penthouse as well the one we cut Tobias’s moustache from. But we found a new paisley that works for both. Also the original Segway is out of production so we had to put some old pieces on a new one.
With all these changes, is Mitch worried?
Oh, and we have this new JarJar Bluth character so there’s no way anyone will be disappointed.
Buster will undoubtedly love or be super jealous of JJ Bluth.
