Image Credit: David Cross, Will Arnett: Bryan Bedder/Getty ImagesSlowly but surely, we’re edging our way toward an Arrested Development reunion. I’m not talking about that long-awaited movie, but rather a project in the original medium. According to a TV Guide report confirmed by EW.com, David Cross has signed on as a recurring cast member and will appear in seven of the first 13 episodes of Fox’s fall comedy Running Wilde, which stars his former Arrested castmate Will Arnett. But that’s not the only AD connection: Arnett created the series with Arrested mastermind/exec producer Mitch Hurwitz and writer-producer Jim Vallely. Cross will play an extreme environmentalist who’s been living in the Amazon with his fiance (Keri Russell). Given that Arnett is the son of an oil tycoon and has a thing for Russell on the show, I’m guessing that he and Cross are being set-up as adversaries here, which boasts the potential for shenanigans o’ plenty. That said, I wouldn’t mind if Cross’ environmentalist is so clueless and deluded, he somehow winds up joining forces professionally with Arnett’s rich brat. (Perhaps Gobias Industries can expand its empire to South America?) PopWatchers, does this casting news make you more likely to watch Running Wilde? Is it just a matter of time before Jason Bateman (who recently did this with Arnett) makes an appearance? And are you anticipating a fun, sexy time when the show debuts in September?
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Yep, Gobias definitely should expand somewhere in South America. Like Portugal, for instance.
as in go buy us some coffee…
Ah man, I’m so excited for this!
saw running wild at the banff world tv festival…and very very sadly, it blew. like, REALLY bad.
Even the members of Gobias industries agreed on that one.
bruno — Hopefully this means that they are reworking the pilot some since David wasn’t signed on before.
Aww… was it so bad, it blew itself?
Isn’t Will going to be on David’s new IFC show, too?
They should make Arnett’s company a subsidiary of Veridian Dynamics. Then the circle can be complete.
I love Ted…. Maybe this will fill the Ted gap that filled the AD gap…
Can’t wait!
Their motto was simple: “We keep you alive.”
I miss BOT way too much.
Will Arnett looks creepy in that pic
My dog is named Gobias so yeah, I love this.
And all of a sudden Running Wilde goes to the top of my new shows to watch this fall, rather than just in the top three.
“Dad, I have Pop Pop in the attic”…….”Just the fact that you still call it that shows you arent ready”
“We are going to find this……..HERMANO!!!!”
In this topic: a bunch of depressed fanboys too obsessed to realize that the favorite show they still repeatedly quote and idolize has been dead for many years now because more intelligent viewers decided to watch better television!
Love Bluth Brothers and Nursedating as well
No you didn’t.
“different racial is- not problem there.”
It was no problem for Carl Weathers and Lucille 2.
“Baby, you got a stew going.”