The story of a wealthy family who lost everything - including their TV show - isn't over just yet, it seems.
Arrested Development executive producer Mitch Hurwitz says he is "very close" to cutting a deal with Netflix for a fifth season of the cult comedy.
"It's the thing I'm really desperate to do," he told media on Wednesday while promoting Lady Dynamite, another show he's involved with.
"We've got a lot of stories broken. We're ready to go. I'm so appreciative of the fans wanting more, I'd hate to tease them with information until we know it's going to happen."
Arrested Development was infamously cancelled by network Fox after only three critically lauded but ratings-challenged seasons (some would say a huge mistake). It came back for a fourth season a few years ago via Netflix.
But the continuing story of the never-nude, Les Cousins Dangereux, the illusionist, their family and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together won't happen unless the massive cast are all available at the same time.
"A lot of people are doing different stuff and it's nine people to get together," cast member Tony Hale recently said.
Season four got around this by focusing each episode on a single character's experience of the same events, but the experiment confused many fans (there are dozens of them! Dozens!). Hurwitz says he's now made perhaps the first-ever remix of a television series.
"I did this very ambitious thing where I made these Excel sheets with every single scene and how long it was in seconds," he told Indiewire. "I put them all on magnetic paper, cut them up into squares, and that sat there and moved the pieces around. And then we made a narrative out of it… It really works."
Ron Howard, who narrates the series, has also recorded a new voiceover.
"For the average person who didn’t know anything about the show, it makes such a difference," says Hurwitz.
It's still not known if, and how, the remix will be broadcast.
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