Mitch Hurwitz: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Will Be a 'Complex Puzzle'

Ohnotheydidn't.com has posted a USA Today interview with ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT creator Mitch Hurwitz in which he talks about the highly anticipated new season of the show. Asked if he had ever thought the show would be returning, he commented, "I certainly didn't think of it in terms of TV... it would be impossible to get everyone together at the same time to film it."

In the interview he explains that each of new episodes will focus on a single character. Only Justin Bateman's Michael Bluth will appear in all of them. "The show will look very different," Hurwitz says, and is being assembled as a "very, very complex puzzle" from scenes shot out of sequence over many months.

Unlike past seasons, the new episodes will not contain flashbacks nor convoluted multiple story lines. "We're not jumping from one thing to another; you're staying with one character," says Hurwitz. "The bigger story is the family has fallen apart at the start of our show. They all went their own way, without Michael Holding them together, so they're left to their own devices, and they're not the most successful devices." He revealed that the season is designed as a "first act to what we eventually want to do, which is a big movie."

The creator shared that he enjoyed having his entire cast reassembled for the new seaon."It was such a joy to be back with everybody; it didn't feel like work, it felt like being back with friends," Hurwitz says. "You don't see them all together until you see the movie." But even apart, "I can assure you that the characters are just as damaged, self-involved and self-righteous as ever."

"One of the reasons Arrested wasn't embraced at the time was it wasn't easy to get your head around it," Hurwitz says. "It was a point of pride with me; I wanted to create a show that had surprises. But that's what they want to do (at Netflix). They want to take risks. They encouraged the complexity that had been discouraged before."

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