It's been three years since season 4 of "Arrested Development" finished airing. And for a while, the future looked bleak for a season 5 renewal. Things are looking up, though, as creator Mitch Hurwitz revealed during the TCA Summar Press Tour that season 5 is ready to start filming by 2017.

"If it does happen, it looks like the shooting will start at the beginning of 2017," Hurwitz said at the panel. He also revealed that the story for season 5 has already been drafted and they are only waiting for things to fall into place.

A lot of things have happened in between the fourth and fifth seasons, so there's definitely a lot of material out there to work with. But one particular plotline — the one involving Lindsay building a wall à la Donald Trump — has Hurwitz thinking.

"Where we left things in season 4, [Lindsay Bluth, played by Portia de Rossi] was becoming the Republican candidate arguing to put up this wall; even though she fought against it, she had completely flip-flopped. She was going to be running against her friend Sally Sitwell [Christine Taylor], but there were so many things that we had built into it that was all about Hispanic uprising, so I may pull back on that, just for comedic reasons, just because it might feel like a sketch, like too easy of a parody," Hurwitz told Entertainment Weekly.

But even though the fifth season of "Arrested Development" won't be featuring a lot of Trump jokes, Hurwitz assures that a lot of the other material will "still be viable."

Even with his mind set on starting filming by the following year, there is still the task of getting all of the actors together to work on the show. With everyone busy with their own projects and commitments, it may prove to be a difficult ordeal. However, hope is still strong.

For now, fans can rewatch season 4 of the cult hit. There's also the option of watching a remix of season 4, reorganized and re-cut by Hurwitz to make it into 22 22-minute episodes. It was done in a way that each episode will see all of the characters together, as opposed to the style of focusing on one character per episode, which was adopted in the original fourth season.