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So we were talking to Will Arnett the other day. Don’t ask why—all shall be revealed in a month or so. But as you may or may not know, Arnett returns to TV in September as the star of "Running Wilde," his next collaboration with "Arrested Development" creator Mitch Hurwitz. And as you may or may not know, "Arrested Development" is one of the great sitcoms of the last decade, possibly ever. Fans of the show (like all of us here at GQ) are frothing, devout, unreasonable creatures, and ever since Hurwitz and Co. dangled the prospect of an "Arrested Development" movie in front of us a few years back, we’ve been like Gollum chasing after the One Ring. We wants it. We neeeeeds it... But like Gollum, we’ve been thwarted. At various junctures, the movie has been on, it’s been off, crucial cast members have been in, then they’ve pulled out, yada yada yada. And all along, the project has been shrouded in rumor. Last we heard, the "Arrested" movie was not happening. Sigh.

But! Then we were talking to Will Arnett. And this is what he said: "Yes, it’s happening." He went on, but here’s the upshot: there is a script—!!!—but it is not finished; all of the principle cast members are on board, but there is no timetable to actually make the movie. So then we called Mitch Hurwitz to make sure that our ears did not deceive us and that Arnett wasn’t just pulling our leg. They didn’t, and he wasn’t.

"Believe it or not, we have started the script," Hurwitz told GQ. (And by "we," he means himself and "Arrested" co-ecutive producer Jim Vallely.) "We’re taking a little abeyance while we get [’Running Wilde’] up and running. But it is our absolute next priority and we can’t wait to do it."

So, rejoice! Hurwitz also had a bit more to say: "We’re changing some of the Bush references to Obama because we started it awhile ago. And the Bluths may not be vacationing in the Gulf of Mexico anymore. We also might have to recast the part of Uncle Mel, the former action movie star. But other than that we have a clear path."

Of course, the question remains when the movie will actually happen. And that’s still the hard part, seeing as it will require the coordination of about a dozen very busy schedules. "As Mitch likes to say," Arnett told us, "we’re just going to wait until there’s zero interest, and that’s when we’ll do it."

In the meantime, Hurwitz asked us to pass along an apology to "Arrested" fans for the air of mystery around the movie. "Believe it or not," he says, "I do not enjoy teasing our wonderful and devoted audience, which is one reason it appears that I’ve been so cagey about this. It’s just that I don’t want to promise what I can’t deliver."

Fair enough. And in that spirit, we promise not to run naked through the streets in celebration.