David Cross: 'Arrested Development' Movie "Not Going to Happen"
by Joel Keller, posted Apr 7th 2010 4:51PM
Fans of 'Arrested Development' might not be too happy with David Cross after they read this interview. Why? Because he has doubts that an 'AD' movie is ever going to come to pass."(I)t's not going to happen," Cross told me the other day when I spoke to him about his new stand-up special, 'David Cross: Bigger and Blackerer,' which premieres on the new cable channel Epix on Saturday (Friday night) at midnight ET.
"Way too much time it's been (since the show ended)," he told me. "I mean, there's so many people involved. Everyone's doing their own thing, you know. And everybody's aged. It's just not going to happen. I'm sure I speak for everybody when I say we'd love for it to happen, we'd love to work on it, but just I don't think... not going to happen."
In the special, which Sub Pop will release on DVD in June, Cross talks about all his usual hot points: religion, the health care debate, politics... and airplanes. If you don't get Epix, the channel is providing a free pass to see the special online. The first thing I was curious about: the pre-teen kid who came out and did a piece of his act at the start of the special.
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by Ed, posted Apr 7th 2010
Say. It. Ain't. So. Honestly, say it ain't so... And if not a movie, then something... A special, something!!!
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by Elf, posted Apr 7th 2010
David Cross could cure cancer, discover free, clean, renewable energy, bring peace to the middle east and let me repeatedly have my way with Amber Tamblyn, yet I'd still hate him for saying there may never be more Arrested Development.
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by Adrian, posted Apr 7th 2010
Happy belated April Fools day..... right???
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by Lynn, posted Apr 7th 2010
I honestly would not be that bummed. I don't even get why anyone want movies of their favorite shows that died. I loved Arrested Development. I have all three seasons on DVD. Season 3 was definitely the weakest, but I'm still fine with those three seasons representing the entire show.
I could have lived without the Sex and the City movie. Same thing with Veronica Mars, Friends, any other show in possible talks of becoming a movie. I really just wish they'd give it up. Leave it on the small screen and just remember it when it was great.
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by The Pasha, posted Apr 7th 2010
I was on a plane from LA to New York a couple of weeks ago and Jeffrey Tambor was sitting next to Ron Howard...and Tambor was reading a screenplay....so that gave me hope that he had in his hands a script for the "Arrested Development" movie.
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by Cordy, posted Apr 7th 2010
David Cross just ruined my birthday
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by cgar, posted Apr 8th 2010
Wow, this guy's career is sky rocketing! A comedy special on EPIX and an exclusive interview with TVSQUAD!!! I can't wait to see what's next for dave cross!
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by Joel Keller, posted Apr 8th 2010
Hey, don't shoot the messenger just because we're giving you bad news...
by Ed, posted Apr 8th 2010
No..! I won't let this make me eat!
by shawn, posted Apr 8th 2010
certainly contradicts him last fall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK5JGiA-BpY
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by KHWH, posted Apr 8th 2010
I think you might have spelt the co-writer's name incorrectly, the spelling "Shawn" is almost exclusively American and there is a British writer called Shaun Pye.
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by duderonomy, posted Apr 9th 2010
yeah, that's really annoying when people misspell things in the public forum. good job calling him out.
SPELT
Pronunciation: \ˈspelt\: an ancient wheat (Triticum spelta syn. T. aestivum spelta) with spikelets containing two light red grains; also : the grain of spelt
by Chris, posted Apr 9th 2010
SPELT: /sp'elt/: A past tense and past participle form of spell.
by KHWH, posted Apr 9th 2010
HAHAHAHAHA..... you sure got me! No, wait... that's the correct past participle of "to spell" in British English, which is what I speak. Try using a better dictionary in future. Nice work displaying your ignorance though. And what forum? I was referring to the misspelling in the main blog post.
by Tobias, posted Apr 9th 2010
I just blue myself...
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by Lina, posted Apr 10th 2010
mothertrucker!! I've been waiting for this
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by Ryan, posted Apr 10th 2010
Ha! KHWH win.
Unfortunately this is a pretty poorly edited interview, because it's a verbatim transcript. People don't talk in complete sentences, they leave phrases hanging, but no one wants to read that (I mean, "I basically kind of wrote most of the Pilot, but he's, you know, from, which we're reshooting most of"? Any newspaper or magazine would have knocked this into readable shape.)
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by Joel Keller, posted Apr 10th 2010
I can never win with these interviews. If I clean it up too much, it doesn't sound like the person. If I leave some 'you knows' and 'likes' in, I get accused of not editing enough. I took out plenty of 'likes' 'you knows' and restarts, but I'm guessing I didn't do enough.
And, yes, I left last quote a bit disjointed (my fault... my eyes always get tired near the end of interview transcripts), so I've clarified things based on your feedback.
So, what do you folks want? A cleaned up interview that makes the person sound like they rehearsed their answers or something that approximates how they really responded?
by Mason, posted Apr 11th 2010
Joel, I like the format as-is. The quotes sound much more like Cross in live interviews than a cleaned-up version would be. You get nuances in the pauses and redirections mid-sentence that are lost when pared to content-only rephrasing.
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by Jay Love, posted Apr 11th 2010
I happily can say that I NEVER, EVER, watched this show when it was on tv, and I certainly could care less if it ever is made into a movie!!!! NO, stop, YES, I actually do care and HOPE that it never gets made into another cheesy movie. like 98% of the others that get to the local cini-plex!!! I would prefer to see good movies, maybe more and better drama's and action movie's, more artsy type movie's, foriegn movie's which get far too little recognition in most theaters across country as it is? another piece of garbage not being made into a movie will do no harm to anyone!!
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