Jason Bateman isn\u2019t hopeful that an \u201cArrested Development\u201d sequel movie will ever happen, but he revealed Thursday more of the proposed cast for Mitchell Hurwitz\u2019s spinoff anyway, saying that none other than Dr. Phil McGraw was slated to play George Sr., the role originated by Emmy winner Jeffrey Tambor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill Ferrell, I think, was talking to Arnett about playing Job,\u201d Bateman said. \u201cJonah Hill was maybe going to do Michael Cera\u2019s part because I think they were hanging out from \u2018Superbad.\u2019 It was cruising.\u201d<\/p>\n
More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n The reveal came on Thursday\u2019s episode of \u201cHot Ones\u201d while promoting his new Netflix series \u201cBlack Rabbit.\u201d In February, he revealed that Matt Damon had pitched himself to play a version of Michael Bluth, the character Bateman originated in 2003.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The premise of the movie, Bateman explained, was that Hollywood producers were making a movie about the central Bluth family, so McGraw, Ferrell, Damon and others would play the actors cast to play members of the Bluth family in the movie-within-a-movie.<\/p>\n \u201cWe certainly couldn\u2019t play ourselves, because we\u2019re not actors,\u201d Bateman said on Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s podcast earlier this year, adding that the premise would have Bateman on Michael \u201con set, watching Matt Damon play Michael Bluth and be so excited.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, David Cross would play Tobias in the film as well, because he was an actor,\u201d Bateman said of the character.<\/p>\n \u201cArrested Development,\u201d the beloved comedy created by Hurwitz, followed the level-headed son Michael Bluth (Bateman) as his unhinged, elitist family grapples with their patriarch, George Sr.\u2019s, imprisonment. The series ran from 2003 to 2006 on Fox before Netflix revived it for two additional seasons in 2013 and 2019.<\/p>\n Watch the \u201cBlack Rabbit\u201d star\u2019s \u201cHot Ones\u201d exchange below:<\/p>\n The post Jason Bateman Reveals Dr. Phil Was Going to Star in \u2018Arrested Development\u2019 Movie as George Sr. | Video<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jason Bateman isn\u2019t hopeful that an \u201cArrested Development\u201d sequel movie will ever happen, but he revealed Thursday more of the proposed cast for Mitchell Hurwitz\u2019s spinoff anyway, saying that none other than Dr. Phil McGraw was slated to play George Sr., the role originated by Emmy winner Jeffrey Tambor. \u201cWill Ferrell, I think, was talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2029849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[356629,306312,375911,305660,375909,344851,375910,375912],"class_list":["post-2036012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-arrested-development","tag-dr-phil","tag-george-sr","tag-jason-bateman","tag-jeffrey-tambor","tag-matt-damon","tag-michael-bluth","tag-mitchell-hurwitz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Ben-Stiller-Jessica-Chastain-to-Star-in-Apple-TV-Thriller.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n