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It’s a Great Day for the Chicken Dance

Cock-a-Cock-a-Cock-a-Cock / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | November 20, 2008 | Comments (34)

For the last year or so, there have been so many false starts, scares, teases, and rumors about a possible Arrested Development movie that we’d decided to stop reporting on all of them. There’s only so much cinematic genitalia (cinegalia) teasing y’all can handle, I expect. So, last week when Jeffrey Tambor went on the record as saying there really was going to be an Arrested Development movie, I tabled it, reasoning that Michael Cera’s recent comment that he had no knowledge of a movie nor any plans to participate in it basically evened it all out.

But then, this week, “Arrested Development’s” executive producer and narrator, Ron Howard, threw some fuel into the fire when he said during a press junket that, yes, he “hopes” there will be a movie:

“I really hope we do it,” Howard enthused. “The reason there’s been so much back and forth is… well, for two reasons, is the business understanding coming from the studio side was not clear, so even though we were wanting to do it and said, ‘Yeah, maybe we could’ but things weren’t defined. I think that’s really come into focus in the last week or so. Mitch’s full-on commitment to not only write it but direct it is something he’s been wrestling with, he’s been launching a TV show at the same time, so he couldn’t let it really be at the forefront of his mind creatively. It is now. He seems very committed. We still don’t have a script. Yeah, he’s got some great ideas, and the cast seemed very excited about it and I certainly am. I’m very, very hopeful—more hopeful now than ever—that it’s really going to happen.”

So what does this all mean? Nothing, really. It may or may not happen. I was just tickling your cinegalia again. You’ll probably get cinematic blue balls now (cineballs!). Really, it’s just an excuse to do the chicken dance.


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Comments

Cineballs sound strangely delicious.

Posted by: Snath at November 20, 2008 4:08 PM

If this actually happens, it's going to be tits tits tits.

Posted by: Merle at November 20, 2008 4:08 PM

If the movie happens, I'm going to blue myself and everyone on here.

Posted by: Julie at November 20, 2008 4:09 PM

Making a batch of Cineballs sounds like a reason to get fired from the food court at the mall.

Posted by: Skitz at November 20, 2008 4:15 PM

This is just like the time that dumb motherfucker kept jamming his cinetongue in my cinegina when he was doing a PERFECTLY fine job lapping up my cinetoris. STOP SWITCHING IT UP IF YOU EVER WANT ME TO HAVE A CINEGASM!

I may be a bit sexually frustrated today.

Posted by: jamiepants at November 20, 2008 4:23 PM

Hee! Now Jamie, a little bit of subtle cinedirection would have rectified that situation in a minute. Or five.

Posted by: Julie at November 20, 2008 4:27 PM

Cineballs and cinegalia need to be added to the dictionary, immediately.

Heeheehehee jamiepants.

Posted by: figgy at November 20, 2008 4:40 PM

Yea. Never ever do the Chicken Dance in Mexico.

It's a very awkward call home.

Posted by: Annie_Reckson at November 20, 2008 4:42 PM

Snath, I think cineballs sounds delish because they sound like little nuggets of Cinnabon goodness.

Mmmmm I want some Cinnamon Rolls right now...

Posted by: Kayanne at November 20, 2008 4:45 PM

If my boyfriend had cineballs I might spend a little more time down there.

I now know my plans for the weekend...

Posted by: MN_Jen at November 20, 2008 4:47 PM

Just be sure you don't burn yourself on the illegal mexican cineballer.

Posted by: MikeTheG at November 20, 2008 4:51 PM

Reading that made me a tad bit moist.

Posted by: superEdna at November 20, 2008 5:16 PM

Reading that made me a tad bit moist.

Posted by: superEdna@hotmail.com at November 20, 2008 5:17 PM

Can someone please give me an example for movie that was based on a (great) TV show and actually worked? All I can think of is Twin Peaks and X Files and they were more than disappointing. I need some hope here.

Posted by: jd at November 20, 2008 5:30 PM

Goddammit jaimiepants now I have Cineblueballs.

Posted by: admin at November 20, 2008 6:07 PM

Each and every comment in this thread is inappropriate for me to be reading at work. That isn't stopping me though.

Fuck the man!

Posted by: the_wakeful at November 20, 2008 6:18 PM

I think Serenity qualifies.

Posted by: Wednesday at November 20, 2008 6:26 PM

Serenity! Movies of TV shows can work if you believe hard enough. And if you don't believe hard enough, rest assured that it's all your fault when it turns out bad. The cast, the director, everybody wanted to make a great movie, but you just had to not believe, didn'cha.

Posted by: James at November 20, 2008 6:28 PM

i 'heart' the bluths

that is all.

Posted by: catag at November 20, 2008 7:32 PM

Anyone want to explain why the creator of the video felt the need to have Back in Black as the background music?

Posted by: Annie_Reckson at November 20, 2008 7:41 PM

Speaking of Arrested Development, does anybody still watch Chuck? Buster is on it now, and he's damn hilarious! It now includes both an AD and a Firefly cast member and as such is required viewing.

Posted by: Chugga at November 20, 2008 8:00 PM

my cineballs are blue like a never-nude and long over due. Not believing in the movie coming to actually would be making a terrible mistake.

Ron Howard is hoping, so can we hope,too. YES WE CAN people, YES WE CAN! Now chant with me. YES WE CAN do the chicken dance when this comes true!

Posted by: Yocean at November 20, 2008 8:34 PM

my cineballs are blue like a never-nude and long over due. Not believing in this movie happening would be making a terrible mistake.

Ron Howard is hoping, so can we hope,too. YES WE CAN people, YES WE CAN! Now chant with me. YES WE CAN do the chicken dance in front of the theaters while painted blue!

Posted by: Yocean at November 20, 2008 8:35 PM

"Anyone want to explain why the creator of the video felt the need to have Back in Black as the background music?"
Not only that, but felt strongly enough about it to put this as the video tag:

"Enjoy! It's up again. READ: Background music stays or else the video gets taken down. If you don't like it, you can get the hell out. YOU GET THE HELL OUT!"

Issues?

Posted by: Farfalina at November 20, 2008 10:31 PM

David Cross made such a delicious analrapist.

Posted by: Lucas at November 20, 2008 11:02 PM

Dudes, this info is weeks old. And your Pajiba Music feature about Soundtracks focused on incredibly outdated and unknown stuff. I'm getting worried that you're becoming irrelevant. And don't say, "We're a niche website." AD is your niche and you were laaate reporting this.

Posted by: ben (thpbt) at November 21, 2008 8:53 AM

"Has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken?"

One of my all-time favorite lines from that show. George Senior's impression is the best--he puts so much attitude and disdain in his.

As others have pointed out, Serenity is a great example of a fabulous film made about a fabulous TV show. I just watched it again last night--brilliant, beautiful stuff.

Ben, I believe the reasoning for the timing of this AD update is in the first paragraph. Perhaps you should actually read the column before bashing it. And I'm not sure how the focus on "unknown" soundtracks in Pajiba Music is a bad thing.

Posted by: DeadBessie at November 21, 2008 9:14 AM

I love Arrested Development more than any show, ever, but what are the chances the movie will not be a raging suckfest? The Simpsons movie was lame, with a couple minorly funny moments, what's to prevent AD from the same fate. I'll still go see it, just to get to spend another 2 hours with the Bluths, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Posted by: sarah b at November 21, 2008 10:01 AM

"Can someone please give me an example for movie that was based on a (great) TV show and actually worked? All I can think of is Twin Peaks and X Files and they were more than disappointing. I need some hope here."

Posted by: jd at November 20, 2008 5:30 PM

The South Park movie. That is the standard that I believe AD can reach. The secret is to make it bigger, longer, and uncut.

Posted by: Handel at November 21, 2008 11:44 AM


That's what she said.

Posted by: Drake at November 21, 2008 1:59 PM

Cineballs sounds like an excuse to jack off to a soft-porn vampire flick! (wink, wink).

Posted by: ph at November 21, 2008 4:50 PM

I just blue myself.

Posted by: summerteeth at November 22, 2008 9:59 PM

Farfalina: I'm pretty sure that the video would be taken down by youtube (not the poster) if not for the background music. Background music is fair usage, I think, and posting random clips isn't. I don't know if that's how the law actually works, but that's how it seems to work in practice. Hence the millions of stupid love-song montages and few non-network-provided clips on youtube.

Posted by: Anonymoose at November 23, 2008 1:16 AM

Are Cineballos anything like Cornballs? And has anyone ever died trying to make them?

Frozen Banana- mmmmmmmm

Posted by: SDS at November 23, 2008 4:28 PM