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"Ron Howard has said that the Arrested Development relaunch on Netflix will act as a &amp;quot;calling card&amp;quot; for a feature film. Howard, the narrator and executive producer of the show, confessed that he and series creator Mitch Hurwitz are still hoping to bring the Bluth family to the big screen.   Speaking to Time about the critically-acclaimed show&amp;#039;s comeback through the streaming platform, Howard described the new episodes as &amp;quot;an outgrowth of our ongoing ambition to try to do the Arrested Development movie&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;As time went by and Mitch started developing the movie, trying to break the story, he said, &amp;#039;My problem is I&amp;#039;m investing a minimum of 40 minutes, just trying to quickly catch everybody up because the cast is so large&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; Howard said. &amp;quot;And he started telling me what he thought people had been through and where they were in the world. It was just hilarious. And I said, &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s almost like every one of those scenarios is basically an episode, Mitch&amp;#039;. And he kind of laughed about it and the next day he said, &amp;#039;You know, maybe those could be episodes. Maybe we should do that&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Howard added of the revived show: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a calling card. That&amp;#039;s what it&amp;#039;s become. There was a moment where we hoped to do these and roll right into the movie but the studio [Fox] was reluctant to make that kind of commitment . So, that&amp;#039;s where we are.&amp;quot; Arrested Development will launch 15 new episodes through Netflix on Sunday, May 26. Watch Digital Spy&amp;#039;s interviews with the Arrested Development cast below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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