The Michael Bluth depicter has taken to his Twitter account to share a photo which sees the Bluth family's living room being reassembled and hint that the cast will start filming on August 8.
- Jul 31, 2017
AceShowbiz - The filming of Netflix's "Arrested Development" season 5 is officially underway. Star Jason Bateman has taken to his Twitter account to tease that the Bluths will soon be gathering in the show's most familiar set, the family's living room.
The photo sees the living room being reassembled as some of the furniture are partially covered in plastic. "Here comes trouble," Bateman captions the photo. "The Bluths move back in on the 8th," he adds, hinting that the filming will start on August 8.
Here comes trouble. The Bluths move back in on the 8th. pic.twitter.com/0PF7ZqkmWM
— Jason Bateman (@batemanjason) July 30, 2017
The living room has been the staging ground for so many chaotic welcome home parties of the dysfunctional Bluth family during the past 4 seasons. Unlike the controversial season 4, which focused on each of the cast members separately in their own episodes, the new season will see the cast gathering together.
Previously, Bateman teased that the long-awaited season would be about the murder mystery surrounding Liza Minnelli's Lucille Austero death. The cult comedy, which originally aired on FOX for three seasons, would have the mystery as its central spine. "That's sort of a central thread around which [creator Mitch Hurwitz] is going to braid in all the colorful plot complications that he knows how to do," Bateman explained at that time.
Season 5 will see the return of Tony Hale, Portia de Rossi and David Cross. Also reprising their roles for the new season are Jessica Walter, Jeffrey Tambor, Will Arnett, Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat.
