Did we call this or what? Jason Bateman using the press to his advantage to talk the “Arrested Development“? Yet another example, right here. Bateman surfaced on MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” last night – Olberman being the annoying analogue to Bill O’Reilly for the Democrats and a huge “Arrested Development” champion – to ostensibly promote the upcoming super hero film “Hancock,” with Will Smith, but then ‘AD’s David Cross showed up and the actors used it as a forum to talk up the long-rumored feature length movie (” ‘Hancock’ will be just fine,” Bateman said, implying it doesn’t need the press).
Even Cross says, “He’s the guy to talk to [about the project],” pointing at Bateman clearly aware of how much of a boner he has for the project. “It’s in the works, the grownups are trying to work out the numbers,” Bateman said not saying anything different than he did back in December or even in the last few days. Nothing about next year, huh? Surprise, surprise.
Also? When did Jason Bateman actually become the character George Bluth in real life? Everything he says on the show sounds like a dry, fast-flying witticism like it was written by ‘Development’ creator Mitch Hurwitz himself, what gives?
