Arrested Development season 4 ‘remix’ coming on May 4
In a new open letter on the show’s official Twitter, creator Mitch Hurwitz confirmed via an open letter that on May 4, you are going to get a chance to see a “remix” version of the fourth season that swaps out some of the stories and makes it feel like a standard, 22-episode version of the show. This may make things a little more familiar to longtime fans of the original seasons who loved that format. Here’s some of what he had to say about his original version of season 4:
“The goal was that by the end of the season, a unified story of cause and effect would emerge for the viewer — full of surprises about how the Bluths were responsible for most of the misery they had endured … In some ways to be an experience for that viewer, perhaps, akin to eating toast, then some bacon— maybe a sliced tomato followed by some turkey, and realizing, ‘Hey, I think I just had a BLT.’ But in between season 4 and this upcoming season 5, I had time to take that Rashomon-type story and recut it — shuffling the content from 15 individualized stories into 22 interwoven stories the length of the original series — as an experiment to find out, well… I guess ‘if I could make some money.’ I mean, who am I kidding, I want this thing to syndicate eventually.”
When you think about this, we do believe that it’s a pretty strong sign that the upcoming fifth season later this year could adopt more of the show’s original format — a big part of the reason for season 4 being filmed in such a way was because of cast availability, and early signs point towards this not being as big of an issue during season 5.
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