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 In a statement from Netflix, series creator Mitchell Hurwitz
quipped "that stories about a narcissistic, erratically behaving
family in the building business - and their desperate abuses of
power - are really underrepresented on TV these days.”
He added, "I am so grateful to them ... for making this dream of
mine come true in bringing the Bluths, George Sr., Lucille and
the kids; Michael, Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric, George-Michael, and
who am I forgetting, oh Tiffany. Did I say Tiffany? — back to
the glorious stream of life.”
Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric and Tiffany are the names of four of
Trump's children, and are not names of "Arrested Development"
characters from the previous four seasons.
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump currently run their father's
real estate business.
The show's leading cast - Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will
Arnett, Tony Hale, Jessica Walter, Jeffrey Tambor, David Cross,
Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat - will all reprise their roles as
the Bluth family.
No details were given on the plot of the new season or when it
would air next year.
"Arrested Development" originally aired for three seasons on the
Fox network from 2003 to 2006. It follows the riches-to-rags
saga of the Bluth family after patriarch George Sr. is jailed
for fraud. Netflix rebooted the show for a fourth season in
2013, its first foray into creating original comedies.
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Walter, who plays manipulative matriarch Lucille, compared the
Bluths to the Trump family in a March interview with The Daily
Beast, saying: "They're both real estate moguls, tycoons, and
businesspeople."
"But the Bluths were really smart — well, smarter than the Trumps.
Although that's just my opinion… except for poor Gob!," she added,
referring to Arnett's character Gob Bluth.
Season 4 saw George and Lucille Bluth's unsuccessful plan to profit
from a government contract to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico
border, to "keep Mexicans out of America."
During his presidential campaign, Trump said he expected Mexico to
pay for a wall on the border, projected to cost more than $20
billion, to curb illegal immigration.
Mexico has rejected payment for the construction project as out of
the question.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Miral Fahmy)
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