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LAT: creator Mitchell Hurwitz updates [ARESD].
"My hope was and is that we would do a theatrical movie," Hurwitz said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday. "This is all complicated by the fact that there are existing rights. (Fox owns the show.) It's not the kind of thing where we can go out and say Warner Bros. wants it and New Line wants it."
Hurwitz says he remains open to making the movie for Netflix, though there have been no discussions along those lines. He also admitted that perhaps the life of a family plays out best episodically, so don't count out the possibility that the show could return with another season. Actually, from the sound of it, Hurwitz would be happy to embrace just about any format that would have him and the Bluth family.
"Really, whoever wants it," he said, laughing. "Maybe we could do it as a series of articles. Remember when Woody Allen got turned into a comic strip? I think we should go to the comic strip format.”
He does promise not to spend the next months (years?) speculating about the series' future in public.
"I don't have a timeline yet," Hurwitz said. "We’re going to not do what we did last time, which was to keep saying, ‘It’s coming, it’s coming, it’s coming!’ If there's more, I promise you, we'll put a date on it. The last time, it got out of hand."
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