Apparently they made a huge mistake when editing the most recent season of Arrested Development. Creator Mitch Hurwitz just announced on Twitter that this Friday, May 4, “a premature holiday the Bluth family know as ‘Cinco de Cuatro’, Netflix will be releasing a remix of season 4 of Arrested Development.”
Why do a new edit now? Hurwitz created Arrested Development Season 4 Remix: Fateful Consequences to tell a better story and make more money. “The goal was that by the end of the season, a unified story of cause and effect would emerge for the viewer,” the showrunner remarked, noting that the remix will be “full of surprises about how the Bluths were responsible for most of the misery they had endured.”
Hurwitz compared the new version of season four to “eating toast, then some bacon—maybe a sliced tomato followed by some turkey, and realizing, ‘Hey, I think I just had a BLT.’” He went on to explain that since season four aired in 2013, he’s had the time to ”take that Rashomon-type story and recut it, shuffling the content from 15 individualized stories into 22 interwoven stories the length of the original series—as an experiment to find out, well… I guess ‘if I could make some money.’ I mean, who am I kidding, I want this thing to syndicate eventually.”
Season five of Arrested Development will reportedly revolve around the death of Lucille 2. And when will we see a new season? “Soon. Like real soon.”
