![]() 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. The panel also had a touch of Kids Say the Darnest Things when young star Stefania Owen, who plays Russell’s daughter, was asked to talk about her character.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. “In nutshell, Vanc-over,” is how Serafinowicz summed up the move. Additionally, production has been moved from Vancouver to New York, mostly because of the lack of opulent mansions up north. As a result, the two roles were recently recast,with Robert Michael Morris replacing Jayne Houdeyshell and Mel Rodriguez replacing Joseph A. He pointed to Fox entertainment president’s criticism (which he agreed with) that “we have lost a lot of what was special about the Emmy character,” Steve’s (Arnett) love interest played by Keri Russell.Īdditionally, besides the casting of Cross, the creators re-conceived the characters of Steve’s ex-nanny, which has been given a gender makeover form a matriarch figure to a manny, and that of his driver/friend, who is now “more contemporary to Steve” with a dynamic between him and his boss in the vein of that between Steve Carell and John Krasinski’s characters on The Office. The creators talked about the slew of tweaks to the pilot, that will result in more than a half of it being reshot, according to Hurwitz. a hope of it being cancelled,” but later added that he is “glad to be trying to make a show that attracts larger audience.”Īdded Arnett, “We’re out of our comfort zone and we’re figuring it out.” Arnett, one of the current kings of dead-pan humor, was overshadowed on the panel by recent cast addition Peter Serafinowicz, who is sometime referred to “the British Will Arnett.” (Serafinowicz was recently upped to a regular after guest starring in the pilot.) One example: He followed Hurwitz’s praise of Fox’s support for the project with this take on the network: “It’s come such a long wasy since the days they just did documentaries about foxes,” he said with a completely straight face, drawing big laughs. “But this is a different project, and it has a different set of rules to it.”Īddressing the fact that, with Wilde, he is looking to do a romantic comedy with wider appeal than the off-beat Arrested, Hurwitz confessed that “I have a fear of success…. “We very much loved Arrested Development, we miss it and that’s why we still want to make the movie, Hurwitz said, adding after the session that the script for the movie is halfway done. ![]() The comparisons are inevitable: new Fox comedy series Running Wilde was created by Arrested alums Mitch Hurwitz, Will Arnett and Jim Vallely and stars Arnett, with another Arrested actor, David Cross, recently joining the cast in a recasting. ![]() ![]() If you wondered how long it took before first Arrested Development-related question at the Running Wilde panel came in, it was a couple of minutes.
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