Jason Bateman Talks HANCOK 2 And AD

Sometimes I wonder how far would an actor go to hide his involvement with a project and keep it secret from the public. How far until all their bluff gets old and useless. I remember Bradley Cooper denied he was Face in THE A-TEAM movie and whatdya know, he’s now Face in THE A-TEAM. Via Comingsoon.net, Jason Bateman who played the Publicist trying to help the drunk, broke-ass superhero fix his reputation in Hancock said this about HANCOCK 2.

“I only know what I’ve read,”
“No one has contacted me or anybody that represents me to ask if we were interested. I don’t know anything about it. It’s surprising to me that Variety would write that story because they’re usually pretty well vetted before they report something and that was completely false. I haven’t heard anything about it. The whole thing about me being on board could not be farther from the truth. I would love to be a part of the film, but I haven’t heard anything about it.”

Whoa! Blame it on the trades huh Bateman. Forget Variety for a second, what about all that talk by director Peter Berg about everybody’s coming back and there will be a third god in the story?
Somebody is pulling our chains here, man! If any, he’s probably playing it safe,.. not to talk much about project that hasn’t been completely locked in yet.
As far as ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Movie…

“It’s still being written and my guess is that is will be shot some time next year,” Bateman added. “I have a feeling that Mitch [Hurwitz] is halfway done writing it. We’ll probably shoot it middle of next year and then for however long things take to get cut and marketed, so maybe the first part of 2011 I would imagine. That’s just a guess.”

I’m a big fan of the series, I want the big screen version to arrive already but after a while of hearing about how it’s being written all the time, and hearing all the actors from the show kept saying ‘yeah it’s going to happen’ but nothing actually takes place, my anticipation for AD movie is slowly but surely diminishing
Now every time I hear about AD info, I quickly say ‘yeah whatever, what’s next?!’