Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz says we may see a movie as early as this year.

I’m getting to where I feel like an abused girlfriend when it comes to the Arrested Development movie.  It seems like every few months a new hint that the movie is really going to happen comes up, and then everything goes silent again.  The last we heard was back in Oct. of last year when the script was supposedly in the works, and then, as always, everything went silent again.

Now speaking with Digital Spy, Mr. Hurwitz said, “We’ve started that process and it is our sincere hope to shoot it this year and get it out this year.  That’s what we’re hoping, but a lot of things have to fall into place for that to happen.”  I’m not holding my breath, but perhaps I can have a bit more hope?

Hurwitz went on to add:

I want to keep whatever it is we end up with as a surprise, which kind of betrays the fact that we might not have the whole thing worked out!

But I don’t like to toy with the affections of our fans. They’ve been so supportive and we’re so grateful, so I kind of hate to answer the question until I can say, ‘Yep, we’ve shot it, it opens next week’. Otherwise it feels like we’re toying with people and we do not mean to do that. It has just taken a while to get it going.

Then stop toying with us! Just get this lined up, shoot it and release it!

While the series did wrap up pretty much all of the storylines, you just want to see another adventure of the Bluth family.  You want to watch as Michael (Jason Bateman) tries to hold this insane family together and save them from themselves, all while laughing at them.

Please, just get this on the screen already, because it does feel like our affections are being toyed with.