Everyone knows a rumor is just a rumor until it shows up in the trades. But let’s not forget that most of the news in the trades comes via publicists. So we can’t always buy what these reports say anyway. So, even though The Hollywood Reporter has announced what we’ve been hearing for a long, long time — that an Arrested Development movie script is in the works — many of us remain skeptical.

Worse than skeptical, though, I’m also annoyed. I get over being teased very quickly, and I’m at the point where I really don’t even want there to be an Arrested Development movie. Honestly, I didn’t really care for one to begin with, but I would have at least been more interested in seeing it had it been made a couple years ago. But it’s been 3 and a half years since the final episode aired, and I’m seriously content with the Bluth’s story being over.

Unfortunately, Hollywood can’t ever let things end well; they have to overdo every good thing. I wish the short run of Arrested Development could just be accepted the way British TV shows are accepted, with few seasons (series). Sure, we Spaced fans would love to know what’s going on with Tim and Daisy ten years after they first became flatmates, but isn’t it actually enough, if not much better, that Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright were able to break out and give us other amazing things to watch them in/do (if only Jessica Hynes, nee Stevenson, was doing more films rather than being a domestic).

Isn’t anybody else sufficiently happy with seeing Jason Bateman have a career again? Isn’t anyone simply thankful that the show introduced us to Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat and Tony Hale, each of whom is doing other enjoyable things these days? Can we just let go of the idea and remember Arrested Development as a classic show that we can continue to revisit on DVD? No movie is going to be good enough after so much anticipation anyway.

Check out what other film blogs are saying about this “news” after the jump:

• Josh Tyler at Cinema Blend dubiously thinks this may just be another tease in order to direct our attention to something else:
  

  THR says they’re working on it in concert with a new series they’re prepping with Will Arnett and the cynical side of me, the side which has spent years tracking down fake Arrested Development rumors intentionally generated by the show’s cast, suspects that this is all just some wild ruse meant to help them promote their new show. I’d love to be wrong.

• Matt Goldberg at Collider thinks this news is like Lucy constantly teasing Charlie Brown with the football:
  

  I had to check to make sure the story was from this year.  I’m not kidding.  With just a few details changed, this could have been a story from last fall.  Hurwitz can work on the script until the end of time (and at this rate he just might).  As long as he does, he is technically “working on the script” and that when this script comes into existence, then production could theoretically begin in not just spring, but in any season.

• Mark at I Watch Stuff reminds us that sometimes cult series do end up getting their underwhelming film spin-off:
  

  I knew we could will it to finally happen if we passed out watching the DVDs enough. It worked with Strangers with Candy, right?

• Paul Tassi at JoBlo.com is much more excited while comparing the concept to another series-to-film transition:
  

  Hot damn! Maybe it’s just because I recently rewatched all three seasons over the past two weeks, but I’m out of my mind excited for this project, even though I really have no idea what it will be like.

  TV-into-movie adaptations are always tricky, as the obvious worry is that a film is just going to be a few episodes slapped together. But there is a way to do it right, and I would point to another prematurely killed show as an example, “Firefly,” whose film adaptation, SERENITY, was a pitch perfect send-off for the show, and gave fans the closure they so desperately needed.

• S.T. VanAirsdale at Movieline points out that this news is at least a week old already:
  

  OMG! The Hollywood Reporter has breaking news that Mitch Hurwitz is working on the script for an Arrested Development — huh? You already knew that? Oh. Sorry

• Craig Kennedy at Living in Cinema points out that this news has at least been annoying for a few months already:
  

  Back in June, our last word on the possibility of an Arrested Development movie was that there was no point in even thinking about it until there was a script. [...] The odds of this thing ever happening are tiny, but since I’ve already called BS on the whole thing, I’m duty bound to bring you updates and to prepare myself for admitting my epic wrongness if that should be the case.

• The Playlist points out that news from the trades isn’t necessarily news anymore:
  

  The film has been sort of announced in the trades. And by “sort of,” we mean, the trades are getting (sadly) into the blog business of reporting stories that aren’t really stories (isn’t that what us Remora fish are supposed to do? Where are your guy’s standards?)

• Stacey Nosek at Pajiba sounds thrilled about this news (sarcastic):
  

  OK, are you guys ready for this? Mitch Hurwitz is — wait for it — working on a script for the Arrested Development movie. Are we allowed to get excited yet?

• Elisabeth Rappe at Cinematical sounds more genuinely happy that the movie may be coming soon:
  

  But it never hurts to keep fueling the fan fire, and remind Fox that we’d really really like the Bluths to return. {…] Let’s be optimistic and hope we see them start filming Arrested Development: The Movie by December or January. I just want my Bluths back!

• Vince Mancini at FilmDrunk is a fan of the show but can’t stand the obsessives holding on and holding out:
  

  Some people even made a documentary about how the show was good.  Who the hell wants to see that?  I watched the show. I liked the show.  What’s the documentary going to be about, you ruining it for me?

• Josh Wigler at MTV Movies Blog is another fan who would be satisfied without the existence of a movie:
  

  Beyond that, I was actually very satisfied with the creative conclusion of the show. Every character has a closed, full circle resolution fitting of a series finale, and as a result, I’m not particularly desperate for more adventures with the Bluth clan. That’s why I have my DVDs — I can relive the old days over and over as often as I want, and the jokes will never get old.

  As Larry David described it during last night’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” reunion projects are very rarely a good idea — and while I have total faith in Hurwitz’s ability to craft a hilarious new “Arrested Development” story, I’m not exactly sure that I need to see it at this point.

• Krystal Clark at ScreenCrave sees the idea as just a big cash grab for capitalists:
  

  I find it so funny that this show was a critical and cult success, but Fox canceled it at the height of its popularity because the ratings weren’t as high as they wanted. Now, the studio wants to be on board so they can capitalize off the cast’s current success. Corporate greed sucks!

• Sean at Film Junk wonders if Bateman and Cera shouldn’t just keep moving forward:
  

  …does Arrested Development have a big enough following to justify a feature film? Is this a step backwards for people like Jason Bateman and Michael Cera?

• Amos Barshad at Vulture jokingly suggests AD fans would prefer the cast didn’t progress professionly:
  

  The report even suggests that production would start in the spring. Nobody on the AD cast go getting more famous between now and then, you hear?

• Michelle Collins at Best Week Ever imagines what the movie will look like given the exploded careers of most cast members:
  

  The script for the Arrested Development Movie is in the works! Sadly, due to scheduling conflicts involving the show’s extremely in demand actors, the first hour and a half feature Annyong and Lucille exclusively. (Dream movie.)