Arrested Development fans may be disappointed to discover that the upcoming Netflix “original” Season 4 will likely be the last. The outlet has only signed up for the one season, and it looks to be a one-off, The Wrap reports.
CEO Reed Hastings spoke at Morgan Stanley’s Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco earlier today and said that he didn’t foresee moving past the planned Season 4. Mitch Hurwitz and the cast have been careful to avoid referring to the upcoming release as a fourth season, preferring to call it “act 1” of the long hoped for movie. Having said that, Hurwitz did insinuate that there may be room for a continuation of the serialized version of the show past this May’s release. Sadly, it does not appear that that will happen at Netfix.
“It’s a fantastic one-off,” Hastings said. “Think about it as a non-repeatable amazing.”
We all want repeatable amazing! What is interesting to note is that, despite calling the David Fincher/Kevin Spacey produced House of Cards an unmitigated success, Hastings chose to underplay the importance of original programming. "It may be the center of the PR for a while and that's OK, but I don't want you guys to think that suddenly we're the original content company," Hastings said. It seems they want to cherry pick their original content selections. In an analogy to cable Hastings said, “We want to be HBO and let others (Hulu, Amazon) be the smaller ones.”
Help us Arrested Development movie, it seems you really are our only hope! If it’s any consolation, we’ll always have May.
Roth Cornet is an Entertainment Editor for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @RothCornet and IGN at Roth-IGN.
Source : ign[dot]com
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