Never let it be said that TVSquad.com is guilty of burying the lede. Earlier today, the site posted an interview with comedian David Cross, largely about his new stand-up special (David Cross: Bigger And Blackerer) and a new British series he's doing. But right up front, interviewer Joel Keller excerpts the part most people will be most interested in: Cross' opinion that the Arrested Development movie is dead in the water. Granted, that's entirely speculation on his part, based not on speaking to anyone involved, but just general circumstance:

How many times have you had to answer questions about the reunion movie at this point, by the way? Including today?

Um, I would guess like somewhere between six and seven hundred times.



Is there anything going on with that at this point?

I think what I will tell you, it's not going to happen. It's not official, but I just don't think it's going to happen. Way too much time it's been (since the show ended). I mean, there's so many people involved. Everyone's doing their own thing, you know. And everybody's aged. It's just not going to happen. I'm sure I speak for everybody when I say we'd love for it to happen, we'd love to work on it, but just I don't think… not going to happen.


Cross also goes on to talk about why he thinks it'd be weird to see those characters on the big screen, and how he'd rather see some sort of one-off TV special reunion instead. Which further emphasizes that this is all opinion, and not based on any formal announcement or decision. Nonetheless, it's all over the web, so brace yourselves for further frenzied speculation.

While that's going on, feel free to read the rest of the interview, which is full of that same weird inverted language ("way too much time it's been?" Has Cross been taking Yoda diction lessons?) but is generally informative and interesting, and touches on issues ranging from details of the new special to Cross' personal political disillusion. All of which frankly seems a little solider than his general speculation on AD's future.