We all wanted Arrested Development to hang on the air, but since it didn’t, Will Arnett has not missed a beat. He’s got three movies coming out and more in the works. We caught up with him on the set of The Brothers Solomon, his movie with Will Forte, to find out about his busy schedule. More on Brothers Solomon coming soon:

Have you been auditioning back to back?
“No. The prison film I went in and read with Dax - Dax Shepard was already set in the prison film. That was a project that I’d read and really liked so I did have to go in and read with Dax for the Powers That Be and that was great. Then more and more people were very kindly wanting me to potentially appear in their films and started asking me to do them. Of course Blades of Glory was something we were excited about doing. My wife and I got to work together and that was a big part of our decision to do it. Also because Ben Stiller had asked us to do it because he’s producing it. And of course, the ultimate on top of that, Will Ferrell was going to be the star of it so it made it pretty easy. Even though my wife and I don’t want to make it too much of a common occurrence for us to work together, doing that movie seemed like the perfect thing, the perfect parts for us.”

What’s your role in Blades of Glory?
“I play the character of Stranz. Stranz and Fairchild are the reigning Pairs champions. Multiple time Pairs champions, sort of spoiled golden children who, now that Will Ferrell and Jon Heder’s characters team up as men’s Pairs, we are their rivals. We try to derail their success as a Pairs team. We’re very sort of unlikable villains. Essentially we’re the villains of the film, but fabulous skaters and great dressers.”

That means you’re doing the flamboyance thing again?
“Yeah, it’s flamboyant in a different way. I’m not a magician, I’m a figure skater but there’s a lot of great awful moves. There’s a great chase scene on figure skates through the streets of Montreal. I’m chasing Will Ferrell with a crossbow, on skates, in a mall. There is a little flair to him, yeah. I don’t mind playing characters who’ve got a little bit of flair.”

Has there been talk of an Arrested Development movie?
“Yeah, there has been talk of that. I don't know exactly where they’re at with that. I talked about it with Mitch [Hurwitz] and Jason [Bateman], a little bit with a bunch of people involved with the show, different producers. I’m pretty sure that obviously it rests on Mitch. Any sort of project like that would have to come from him and it would be something that he’d be really passionate about. I guess if the story were right, and by story I mean the money was large enough, then he’d do it.”

Are you developing your own projects?
“Yes. The project that I’m focusing on right now is a story of mine that we’ve got in development over at DreamWorks called The Ambassador. That’s something we’re trying to get off the ground next year. He is essentially the son of a former Vice President who is chosen as a Trojan Horse, if you will, to go over and become an ambassador to the EEU to mess up American affairs, essentially just ruin a treaty with the European countries. He goes too far and now the US government has to kill him, but he’s too dumb to kill. It’s a lot of me insulting Europeans, Germans, French, nobody’s mad about that, and then it becomes more of a Bourne Identity getting chased through Europe - although I don't know I’m being chased. So that’s something I’m really excited about and that’s something I’m working on with Mike Shore who’s writing it. He’s a writer on The Office, the American version.”

Your producer said you’re playing vulnerable in Let’s Go to Prison. Is that true?
“It’s great. For me Prison was a great experience. The character of Nelson Bederman was very unsympathetic at first. He comes in, he’s a son of a judge, he’s kind of had everything handed to him and he’s a real misanthrope. He’s going to prison and all of a sudden he’s way out of his element and he gets abused and raped and everything, all these awful things happen to him. But by the end of the movie, there’s a real arc there in terms of his character. I think that at the end he comes out actually quite a good person, a fairly normal guy. It was fun for me to be able to go to that place and be this very vulnerable guy who’s really beaten up by everybody, who’s not on top of it at all and he comes out, he’s kind of okay.”