Arrested Development Season 5 Will "Definitely Happen," Creator Says

A fifth season of quirky comedy Arrested Development is "definitely" going to happen--but not soon. Creator Mitch Hurwitz told Esquire that everyone involved is interested in shooting the next season, but a deal hasn't been reached yet due to the actors' busy schedules.

"One of the challenges has been a big studio owns it and they don't make TV this way typically," he said. "They sign actors for multiple years of a show, and then they shoot. We'll get half of the actors available and we won't quite commit to making the deal, then we'll lose the other half of the actors."

Hurwitz said he's pushing extra hard to make a deal for Arrested Development season five because he thinks there is a "great story to tell." One of the plot points of the fourth season that is planned to continue in the fifth focuses on a political race, Hurwitz explained. The writers were also "building to a murder mystery" that would be further explored in the next season.

He's confident a deal will eventually be reached, but that likely won't happen before this November's presidential election.

"It'll happen. It'll definitely happen," he said. "Not before the election, but it's definitely going to happen. I say that because the actors want to do it, the studio wants to do it, Netflix wants to do it, I want to do it. It's just making it happen. There's no one resisting."

Hurwitz is also working on a recut of the fourth season "to make it airable on TV." This process involved redoing all of the narration and reshooting "a few little things," he said.

Arrested Development's first three seasons aired on Fox in 2003-2006. Netflix revived the series for a fourth season, all 15 episodes of which debuted on the streaming platform in May 2013.