As a guy who writes about television, I've reached a dilemma with this whole 'Arrested Development' movie story.

Sure, I want to see the movie happen. I was a big fan of the show when it was on Fox, and I'd love to revisit the Bluths in the darkness of a movie theater.

But I don't want to hear about it anymore.

Every time creator Mitch Hurwitz or someone from the cast gets asked about it, their answer gets splashed all over the interwebs as if health care reform was passed all over again. Even if someone says "I don't know" or "Beats me," it gets linked to on entertainment portals everywhere. Not even the second 'Star Wars' trilogy got this much attention.

Here's a case in point: Yesterday, after his panel discussion for his new Fox show 'Running Wilde,' Hurwitz was speaking to a group of reporters, me included. After an entire panel where not one person asked Hurwitz about the 'AD' movie, Joe Adalian of New York magazine's Vulture blog broached the question to him in the post-panel scrum. His answer didn't have me running back to my computer to send a virtual "STOP THE PRESSES!" to my editors.

"We're writing, (but) we're in a little bit of a break to do the show," he said, "but we're about halfway through. The reason I've been so cagey about this is because I know it's taken us a while to get it going, and the fans have been so kind to us. But I really want to do it."

Hurwitz even mentioned to me that they'd have to work on a compressed schedule because of logistics. "It's not going to be a big money maker, it's going to be that it's fun for us to be together, it'll be a family reunion, so I think on that basis everyone going to want to do it."

No big deal, right? Hurwitz, Will Arnett, and other cast members have been talking about the script being in progress for a couple of months. Well, Adalian and some of the other writers ran with it, some posting about it in excited tones that seemed a little over-the-top given the non-news nature of the story (If any of them were using those tones in a tongue-in-cheek manner, then it didn't come through on the electronic page).

Of course, the story hopscotched its way around the Web. And when I saw that, I just scratched my head; how is having a script being "half-done"and not being picked up anytime soon cause for semi-screaming headlines? Is this what the 'AD' movie news cycle has come to, where we're wringing every little microscopic piece of information uttered by someone and calling it news? I'm sure there's a half-done sequel to 'Star Trek' in J.J. Abrams' drawer, and no one seems to care about that.

I'm guilty of feeding the 'Arrested' hype machine myself; last spring, when David Cross told me that he didn't think the movie was going to happen, I posted the story with the 'AD' stuff as the headline and lead, and watched it explode online. I can't say that part surprised me; but what did surprise me was that what I thought was just one man's opinion about whether or not the movie was going to happen was taken by fans as fact.

When I asked Arnett about it on Sunday night during Fox's event for 'Running Wilde,' he pegged the craziness of the show's news cycle pretty well, and how Cross got caught up in it.

"I think that in the moment it felt true [to him] that it wasn't going to happen," he said. "It didn't represent either way any real facts or lack of facts. At that moment he didn't think it was going to happen. The problem is on that particular subject anything you say about it is taken as law at that particular moment. That forces [Jason] Bateman to make a statement that it is happening."

If I think that news cycle is so crazy, then why did I feed into it? Well, because I had to. That's where the dilemma comes in. As much as I'd like for Hurwitz and the cast to just go and do their movie and let us know when it's done so we can lap it up like the starving 'Arrested' fans we are, we also have to report each little movie-related story morsel so we don't look like we're getting aced out. I don't fault any sites for running with the half-done script story, because people want to click on anything involving the show, even if it's a list of what Michael Cera ate for breakfast this morning.

Jessica Walter, whom I spoke to after the FX panel for 'Archer' on Tuesday, said that in her career, she hasn't seen such anticipation for a movie. Because of all the hype, "Most of us just say, 'We don't know,' and hope that it'll work out."

That seems to be the right approach. Give people nothing because there's really nothing to report , though like I said earlier, even that stuff gets reported.

At this point, isn't it best to just let Hurwitz get the script done, set up everyone's schedules, and actually start filming? Only until then will the project be real instead of something a producer is doing on the side while he's trying to make a living on TV.

With all the hype, fans are just setting themselves up for disappointment if the 'Arrested Development' movie isn't the best thing to happen to cinema since 'Gone With the Wind.' And that's a lot of pressure for what's essentially a cult show. A very funny cult show, but a cult show nevertheless.