Arrested Development is Getting the Godfather Treatment

A Brand New Season 4 and 5 of Arrested Development is Coming! AD4 to Get Godfather style re-cut.

Tuesday Mitch Hurwitz dropped the news that Season 5 of Arrested Development is coming to Netflix..sometime. No word on when the show will return, although Mitch promises that the word “soon” is fitting. The AD creators have already said that season 5 will involve the death of Lucille 2 and a surrounding murder mystery.

But those hungry for some new AD sooner than “soon” will be excited to hear that this FRIDAY something big is coming.

Remember when the Godfather trilogy got recut into a more chronological version of the story just to see if it changes how you feel about the storyline? Well now ADS4 is going the same route.

In a letter to the fans released on Twitter on Tuesday, Hurwitz also announced he is releasing a remix, re-edit, re-cut, re-configure of Season 4.

Hurtwitz says he has taken the “one person, one episode” Rashomon-style configuration of S4 and mixed and mingled and shuffled the 15 single character-based stories into 22 interwoven episodes. Why? The letter to fans says the decision was made a) in hopes of a future of syndication for the series, b) as an experiment to see if new jokes would emerge from a world where the storylines played out chronologically.

Arrested Development Season 4 Remix: Fateful Consequences drops this Friday May 4.

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