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[Bryce (003)]

Would you believe? A "Get Smart" Movie.

It's official - Steve Carell (The 40 Year Old Virgin) has been cast as Maxwell Smart in the big screen version of "Get Smart".

In the November issue of Playboy in their 20 Question interview, he confirmed that it's his next project.

Now, can he measure up to the legacy that is the late Don Adams?

I guess we'll find out.

[trumanlodge89]

he's really the only person who could do the role justice, in my opinion.

[Bryce (003)]

Here's the pic the did for the 20Q's.

The fact that they also got a red Sunbeam Tiger makes it work almost as much as Bond with an Aston.

Now, who to cast a Siegfried and 99?

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[PrinceKamalKhan]

So what's it going to be called? The Nude Bomb 2 ?

[Bryce (003)]

I think it's just being called "Get Smart" far as I've heard.

[ComplimentsOfSharky]

This just seems to me like it'd come off as a bad impression.

I don't know, I might see it, might not.

[Athena007]

Hey Bryce...

Oct 11th -- From the CBn Main Page Story about the WB Ian Fleming Film:

Lazar is also currently producing another spy flick for Warner Bros, Get Smart due out in 2006 with Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart.

[crheath]

It won't work. The concept was good at the time in the 60's, but not now. The Nude Bomb proved that.

[Bryce (003)]

Hey Bryce...

Oct 11th -- From the CBn Main Page Story about the WB Ian Fleming Film:

Lazar is also currently producing another spy flick for Warner Bros, Get Smart due out in 2006 with Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart.

Ahhh...

"Missed it by that much."

The 11th...OK, yeah, that's when I was in the UK and not on the boards too much.

Changing the title of the thread is cool, but in the future, warn me with a PM.

[Gobi-1]

Blows dust of this thread. A lot has happened since the last post in here.

From Entertainment Weekly.com, http://www.ew.com/ew...0013632,00.html

Alan Arkin is joining Steve Carell in the Get Smart movie Peter Segal is directing for Warner Bros. Arkin will play the chief of CONTROL, the organization that fights the evil forces of KAOS. It's the role portrayed by Edward Platt in the 1960s TV series. Carell will play secret agent Maxwell Smart, and Anne Hathaway will portray Agent 99. Dwayne ''The Rock'' Johnson and Terrence Stamp are also on board.

My main reason for upping this thread is to post a teaser poster I made for the film. I used a headshot of Carell from an Entertainment Weekly cover so it's very much in the same spirit as the poster for the 40-Year Old Virgin.

Get Smart! Teaser A
http://img410.images...rtteaserhl1.jpg

Edited by Gobi-1, 04 March 2007 - 11:11 PM.

[Gobi-1]

I took the awesome scan Bryce posted and turned it into a second teaser poster.

Get Smart! Teaser B
http://img488.images...tteaserbuo3.jpg

[iexpectu2die]

Doesn't sound like the script is very popular at all...

http://www.wouldyoub....com/movie.html

[Gobi-1]

Found this on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia....et_Smart_(film)

The Get Smart fan site WouldYouBelieve.com previewed an unauthorized early draft of the script, with mostly negative response. However, Hollywood is abuzz about the casting and recent table reading, which went, according to one insider, as well as anything he's ever seen. "It was fist pounding funny, and is going to make all the old GET SMART fans very happy while making tons of new GET SMART fans as well."

Being that it's Wikipedia anybody could have posted that. A good cast can breath life into a script that just sits there on paper, but having said that a bad script can also bring down a good cast, so we'll see.

Edited by Gobi-1, 04 March 2007 - 11:39 PM.

[Bryce (003)]

I took the awesome scan Bryce posted and turned it into a second teaser poster.

Get Smart! Teaser B
http://img488.images...tteaserbuo3.jpg

Brilliant Gobi!

I've also heard that the script has undergone a major makeover with Carrell.

Arkin as the Chief is great. Also, by this fall, there will be a trailer done in the vein of the CR trailer. First in B&W and then to color. If they just do a revamp of the theme in the vein of the GE Parodie Fair mix, it *could* be awesome.

You know, it just *might* work.

Production starts this next week.

*fingers crossed*

"The situation is under CONTROL" - That's a great tagline.

[trs007]

The GET SMART movie has great potential. I never really cared for Steve until I saw him in "The Office". At this point, I say I hope the development continues to make the whole movie better than the sum of it's parts.

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying my original Get Smarts on DVD.

[Gobi-1]

From ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoo...ws.php?id=19188

Borat's Davitian Gets Smart
Source: The Hollywood Reporter March 4, 2007

Ken Davitian ("Borat") has joined the all-star cast of Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow's big-screen adaptation of Get Smart. Steve Carell is playing Maxwell Smart, Anne Hathaway is Agent 99, and Alan Arkin is portraying the Chief of CONTROL. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Terrence Stamp also have been cast. Davitian will play the evil assistant to Stamp, the head of the nefarious organization known as KAOS.

Andrew Lazar, Charles Roven and Alex Gartner are producing the comedy.

[trs007]

So does that mean Terrence Stamp is Seigfried???????

[Bryce (003)]

So are we to expect a 'SteveCarellnotSmart' website to appear shortly then?

Don't give anyone any ideas.

[jaguar007]

When I first heard of a Get Smart movie, I thought "oh boy", until I herd Steve Correll - he is about the only person I can think of who could really pull it off.

[trs007]

This is KAOS, Jaguar, we don't "oh boy" here!

[Bryce (003)]

Nice one TRS...That had me chuckling.

*pumps fist* "Old School!"

While I've never been one for cameo's from former stars of a series showing up in a motion picture revamp, I'd hope either Bernie Kopell or Barbara Feldon might turn up somewhere in this.

Best bit in recent years that I've seen in any "based on a TV show" film is the still heavenly Jaclyn Smith in CA-2 giving a "divine" pep-talk to Drew Barrymore.

[Gobi-1]

Spy photos from Get Smart featuring Anne Hathaway, The Rock, and Alan Arkin.

http://www.annie-hat...s.php?album=180

[Blonde Bond]

Sounds good so far. I couldn't imagine anyone else, nowadays, playing the part of Maxwell Smart than Steve Carell.

[Gobi-1]

Here's the first official look at "Get Smart."

http://www.comingsoo...ws.php?id=19822

[mrsbonds_ppk]

Wow this sounds good. Steve Carell is a very funny guy. I used to love this show when I was a little kid watching re-runs.

Edited by mrsbonds_ppk, 16 April 2007 - 05:54 AM.

[sharpshooter]

Don Adams will forever be Maxwell Smart, but Carrell has my seal of approval. He will be fine I am sure. I hope it is indeed fist pounding funny.

[MarcAngeDraco]

Encouraged by the presence of Carell, Terence Stamp, and Alan Arkin...

Not too sure about Anne Hathaway as 99...

Really not sure about The Rock...

[Sigma7]

Don Adams will forever be Maxwell Smart, but Carrell has my seal of approval. He will be fine I am sure. I hope it is indeed fist pounding funny.

Actually he is a good choice, i cant actually think of anyone else for the role except maybe Tim allen hahahahhahaahaha

[Gobi-1]

There's a rumor floating that original "Get Smart!" masterminds Mel Brooks and Buck Henry have signed on to the film as creative consultants. Fantastic news if true.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32274
(Ain't It Cool News is very foul mouthed so you've been warned.)

[bonded56]

On yesterday's ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT (July 9, 2007) there was a promo that on tonight's show there will be a "first look" at the new GET SMART movie. They showed Steve as Max in a tuxedo, stuck in a phone booth. They also showed "Max" throwing the hand set of a phone at a villain but the cord isn't long enough for the handset to hit the villain.