On Arrested, what I was trying to work hard on was to get my vision completely out there. Well, it’s a different kind of hard work because I have more masters to please. And I guess your fan base is the most judgmental of all because they care so much about that other project.Īre you working as hard on this as you did on Arrested Development? I remember watching a Michael Palin comedy once and being like, “No! Be Monty Python! Be what I want!” I get it, because I’m a consumer too. Yeah, but it doesn’t work like that, for some reason. We need to win these people over - even though you’d think, coming from Arrested Development, you would have already won them over.” That’s what I think we need to be focused on here. We’re going to add more heart to the American version.” And he said, “We got that second wave of positive reviews. So we’re going to do something slightly different here. The original’s too beloved.” But he said, “But that beloved crowd was not a big audience. They’re going to want to compare it to Arrested. In fact, early on, Kevin Reilly said to me, “You know, we’re going to get bad reviews for this. In a funny way it has been like, wait, I’m being held up to this standard? I was trying to create a standard that you guys couldn’t live up to, not one that I couldn’t live up to!īut you must have expected that this would get compared to Arrested Development. You weren’t supposed to be able to do it - I was supposed to be celebrated for that. He can’t do it again! Well, I know I can’t do it again. But the joke’s on me, because they’re making fun of me for it. What I meant was, they’ll make fun of other writers for not measuring up. And I would think, Say what you will, no one will ever be able to do this again. That meant in post I’d have to spend 40 hours a week. I would do eight stories and try to intertwine them and give every character five dimensions and six backstories - and the show took twenty minutes. Because no one would be stupid enough to try. But the one thing I did feel confident about was: No one will ever be able to do this again. When we were making Arrested Development, it was the hardest thing I’d ever done. (And yes, we ask the obligatory questions about the mythic AD movie.)īy now, you must have noticed that early reviews of Running Wilde have been negative. Here, our virtually uncut probing discussion about Running Wilde and the impossibility of ever again reaching the bar he set with Arrested Development. Before giving his keynote address at the New York Television Festival last week, the writer-producer told us about how he feels more like a hired gun on this series, and has had to accommodate Fox’s wishes for a more accessible show. It turns out that Hurwitz knows exactly how they feel. However, matching up to a show that has achieved comedy sainthood is an impossible task, and the series debuted to poor reviews, (familiarly) low ratings, and a sense of disappointment among hard-core fans who complain that it doesn’t have more of AD’s signature absurdist style. So when Fox announced that one of its stars, Will Arnett, would be reuniting with AD creator Mitch Hurwitz for a new comedy, Running Wilde, fans swooned at their good fortune. UPDATE: It turns out this story is deeper than just a re-cast, reports that Cross was originally cast to play the role, but the Icelandic volcano explosion prevented him from filming the pilot which Daly, who was already cast in the new Paul Reiser sitcom stood in for.Arrested Development spent three seasons in a perpetual state of near-cancellation, and yet even four years after it was finally shut down, it remains spoken of in hushed tones by Comedy Geeks Who Know. Time to break out the blue body paint and cutoff jeans and hope this show ends up better than the last time some of the AD cast reunited on the incredibly short lived animated sitcom Sit Down, Shut Up. Cross will appear in 7 of 13 episodes and portray a radical environmentalist and be replacing actor Andrew Daly that played the part during the show’s pilot. The show features Gob himself Will Arnett as the main protagonist as he tries to win the woman of his dreams played by Felicity herself Keri Russell.Īlso, just recently announce was that another AD Alum, David Cross will be joining the cast of Running Wilde. The channel’s new show Running Wilde which is the new comedy series by AD creator Mitch Hurwitz and writer Jim Valley. Oh man, it’s looking like we’re going to get a little bit more of an Arrested Development reunion of sorts this fall on FOX.
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