‘Arrested Development’ Cast Not Happy With Recut Season 4
By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 8, 2018 1:00 pm EST
The new version of the season re-edited the episodes into shorter run times, but in the process expanded the season length to 22 episodes from the original 15-episode run. This has a few of the Arrested Development cast members arguing that they deserve extra compensation. In this case, it’s unfortunate that [Ron Howard voice]: all the footage was found.
Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, and David Cross are asking for additional compensation for the extra episodes in the “remix” of Arrested Development season 4.
But this choice was ultimately met with mixed reactions, and Arrested Development season 4 has gone down as the weakest of the show’s seasons. Now with the remixed version, Hurwitz recut the season into 22 episodes to fit the more traditional interweaving storylines of prior seasons in a ploy to lure in new fans, advertise for the upcoming season 5, and perhaps eke out a syndication deal for the series.
In a recent post on social media Hurwitz admitted that the remix was an experiment to see “if I could make some money” — that is, if the 22-episode order would allow the series to “syndicate eventually.”
Arrested Development season 5 premieres on Netflix on May 29, 2018.
