ARRESTED (IN) DEVELOPMENT
Our Dos and Don'ts for the Bluth's big-screen debut.
Aside from giving us an amazing excuse to indulge in all the shows we usually feel too guilty to watch, NYLON's TV-centric September issue also has us feeling super nostalgic for our favorite shows of the past.
So naturally, our brains simultaneously went to Arrested Development--more specifically, the Bluth family, the Banana Stand, and speculating what's fictionally new with Mae "Maeby" Fünke these days.
Assuming you're as obsessed with the cult show as we are (who isn't?!), you've definitely been hearing the recent rumblings about an upcoming fourth season. Here's the deal: Netflix will premiere about 10 new episodes of the cult show this spring, which are supposedly designed to bridge the gap between the original show and the upcoming movie. This is definitely a new approach to the TV-to-feature film conundrum, a process which more often than not results in disgruntled fans wishing they had stayed home and just watched reruns.
In a panicked effort to make sure this doesn't happen with the Bluth's, here's our 5 of dos and don'ts for the soon-to-be Arrested Development movie:
1. DON'T recast the original characters unless absolutely necessary. If recasting is a must, be sure to find actors with comparable talent, rather than pop-culture icons without any experience in film (example: Dukes of Hazard)
2. DO create a fresh plot line that's both entertaining and fitting with the present day (example: 21 Jump Street)
3. DONT turn an animated TV show into a live-action feature or vice versa (example: Scooby-Doo)
4. DO maintain a sense of the familiar, particularly with cult shows (example: The Simpsons)
5. DON'T make a sequel to a TV-based-movie, especially if the first flick wasn't all that great (example: Sex and the City 2)
Feel free to add to our list and let us know your plot predictions in Bluth's big screen debut!
ALI HOFFMAN
So naturally, our brains simultaneously went to Arrested Development--more specifically, the Bluth family, the Banana Stand, and speculating what's fictionally new with Mae "Maeby" Fünke these days.
Assuming you're as obsessed with the cult show as we are (who isn't?!), you've definitely been hearing the recent rumblings about an upcoming fourth season. Here's the deal: Netflix will premiere about 10 new episodes of the cult show this spring, which are supposedly designed to bridge the gap between the original show and the upcoming movie. This is definitely a new approach to the TV-to-feature film conundrum, a process which more often than not results in disgruntled fans wishing they had stayed home and just watched reruns.
In a panicked effort to make sure this doesn't happen with the Bluth's, here's our 5 of dos and don'ts for the soon-to-be Arrested Development movie:
1. DON'T recast the original characters unless absolutely necessary. If recasting is a must, be sure to find actors with comparable talent, rather than pop-culture icons without any experience in film (example: Dukes of Hazard)
2. DO create a fresh plot line that's both entertaining and fitting with the present day (example: 21 Jump Street)
3. DONT turn an animated TV show into a live-action feature or vice versa (example: Scooby-Doo)
4. DO maintain a sense of the familiar, particularly with cult shows (example: The Simpsons)
5. DON'T make a sequel to a TV-based-movie, especially if the first flick wasn't all that great (example: Sex and the City 2)
Feel free to add to our list and let us know your plot predictions in Bluth's big screen debut!
ALI HOFFMAN
This story was published on September 24, 2012.
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Janie Laviolette
09/25/2012
I'd love to see all the original actors in the upcoming movie. I loved the series & miss watching it.
Lauren Ecote
10/01/2012
This article is the worst. It tries to make the employees of Nylon seem so up on a show that they seem to think is "cool" to watch. They won't explicitly say this, but the fact that they're doing an article on Arrested Development, an article with no real point, seems to just be an excuse to appeal to the people who are "cult followers" of the show. These are the people that they want to relate to. The author views these people as though this is high school and these people are the it crowd that the author wants to badly to be in with. It's annoying. The first sentence of the second paragraph is meant to make readers feel excluded if they don’t watch the show. But this is also pointless because the only people who would’ve clicked on this article are already fans of the show. If a reader does not belong to category a, I can only assume it’s someone pathetically trying to learn more about the show because they’ve probably heard people they admire discussing it and they want to be able to be included in conversation. I don’t know why else you would click on an article that you cannot relate to. The allusions to the show are not what make the show memorable and therefore make me feel as though the author really isn’t as “obsessed” with the “cult show” as they claim to be. And by the way, adding that it’s a “cult show” is another way to try and make yourself look cool because YOU WATCH A CULT SHOW WOW WHAT A COOL WORD. You mention briefly about Netflix making the series and claim that these are “recent rumblings” (who uses the word rumblings?). They’re not recent. And were hardly “rumblings” between the people that followed the series, back when word was first released like, last winter. You offered no new information and the list of specifications that you tried to make for the writers of the show was shallow and pedantic. Congratulations. There’s no way they would ever need to take instruction from you on how to write a script for their show which has amassed a such a loyal following.
carrie
11/02/2012
Lauren is an angry person who should direct her rants at more important things. I like Arrested Development but I don't think that makes me cool.
miss kris
12/12/2012
i see lauren's point. love the show, love the actor's,and i hope they dont fuck up the movie. stil excited for it:)
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