Ron Howard has insisted that he will not direct a possible Arrested Development movie.

Speaking to Coming Soon, the filmmaker said that he expects a film based on the short-lived Fox comedy to get made "sooner rather than later".

Howard served as executive producer on the series as well as narrator.

"I won't be directing the Arrested Development movie, but [the creator] Mitch Hurwitz is determined," he said.

Howard added: "I know we've been saying this for a while, but I'd be really surprised if we didn't have an Arrested Development movie sooner rather than later."

Arrested Development starred Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, Portia de Rossi, Jeffrey Tambor, David Cross and Will Arnett.

http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a296698/ron-howard-i-wont-helm-arrested-movie.html

I have lost all hope that this movie will ever be made!!!!!

..."ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT" never earned more than 5 million viewers (or less) every week when it was on FOX; the only people who watched it were a small cult audience, and virtually every major TV critic in the United States. Mass audiences didn't bother to tune in because it was too "weird" and "hip" for their tastes. Do you honestly believe 20th Century-Fox wants to produce a theatrical movie based on a TV series that appealed to less than 5 million viewers every week? Mitchell Hurwitz has enough trouble trying to keep his latest series, "RUNNING WILDE", on the air- and that's as good as cancelled, too.

You're probably right, 'R.j'....

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