Big news today for “Arrested Development” fans as we learn that series creator Mitch Hurwitz (via Austin360) will direct the long anticipated film. The news finally broke after much questioning over whether himself or series narrator Ron Howard would take the director’s chair took place.  Even more so, we learn from Hurwitz that :

…that there would be a heavy jail presence and then made jokes about the inclusion of TARP money, a nod to the inability of a film to be as timely as television due to lag times in production and release.

He also stated having fun writing the film as opposed to the television format of “Arrested Development” because:

…writing “A.D.” for only a 20-minute show is much more difficult because it restricts his ability to go into greater detail.

Source: Austin360

This comes just months after “long-time holdout” Michael Cera “finally agreed” to reprise his role (Sources beg to differ). But hopefully, this comes out sooner than later.