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Another SMART bit of casting for the TV show turned movie!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. So, how does the GET SMART movie become one of my most anticipated movies in production? I'll tell you how: the cast.
We know Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart, we know Anne Hathaway as 99, we know The Rock is another agent and Terrence Stamp is also in the movie.
Now Alan Arkin has been cast as The Chief. How damn cool is that?
They have so much talent in front of the camera, now lets hope the creative team lives up to that talent and gives us a great script.
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The way the casting is shaping up you know its gonna be a riot... I loved this show as a kid and can't wait to see it on the big screen.
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I hope it's a big fat lie, because it sounds like we are in trouble!
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I think a lot of younger kids today aren't going to know the difference, because it's such an old property, but I think the early casting looks good.
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was just recently attached to this as well.
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Sorry...sorry...I saw the opening...had to take it.
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As a kid, watching _Get Smart_ when it was originally aired was a big time. Great fun. I hope the writers and cast can emulate the zaniness of the this 60s TV icon. I still hear people of my generation occasionally saying: "Sorry about that chief." Thanks to Don Adams for adding to our catch-phrase lexicon.
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I guess not. Who died then?
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Feb 28, 2007 9:15:32 AM CST
I loved the Nude Bomb! Thimble wearing panty hose bad .
by kinghenryviii
guy - the "zipper" entrance way into the evil lair .... the desk / car chase. I haven't seen it since I was 10 on cable but I remember liking it.I hope this rocks. Steve C can do no wrong and the rest of cast seems to round out that greatness. And it's good to see The Rock getting some movie time. I find him utterly halarious. I'm looking forward to this.
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Can someone please PLEASE PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE nuke Hollywood? At least stage a "Boston Tea Party" or something - maybe a coup? Can we take over? How do we stop shit like this from happening? It's like a goddamn asteroid heading for earth to wipe us out.
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I was around and read the God awful fake review for Batman Year One that spawned "Has a beer and cheeets on _ " and also around for "bomb in the ribcage" but I must have missed "Gotta Eat" Someone please Let me know where that came from.
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This is really improving the chances of me seeing this movie.
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and no good movie.. cast amuses me, but everything I've heard on their take of it makes it sound like it'll suck harder than Monica..
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There is no apostrophe needed after "gotta". You're shortening "got to", so what is your apostrophe standing for, the "o" that you replaced with an "a"?
Kids may not recognize this show, but they ought to recognize Inspector Gadget and realize that this is the source (and superior) material. -
older crowd that grew up with the show and the younger crowd that has never heard of it. Great casting so far. It should be a great time.
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What kind of shit is that, giving him an Oscar?!
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They should have gotten a dude who could play a jewish robot more convincingly but whatever.
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most.underrated.movie.evarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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...that I don't care about this movie?
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w00t!
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for Chief! Will they now include in the trailer..and Academy Award (tm) Winner Alan Arkin ...as The Chief....?..of course they will. This would only work if someone like Apatow was attached, where it would be silly and smart ala Ricky Bobby, or Anchorman. I fear it will rely on big stupid stunts and slapstick. Who's directing this thing??
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it sounds unnecessary. it's comforting to know that fountain of great ideas that filmmakers could possibly ever have has been utterly tapped. thanks hollywood!
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the guy who needs Adam Sandler to secure a hit, and written by the guy who wrote "Failure To Launch"? Ok, thats all I need to know..
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Because of those creepy dead eyes. Hey, maybe SHE should play the robot. Actually I'd like Patrick Warburton to do that one.
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At least anyone over 10? I'll just watch the series on DVD, thanks.
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not bill murray. Sellars was closeau not steve Martin. Adams was Gadget not Matthew Broderick and He was Maxwell Smart no Steve Carell. Remember when we are all saying that Carrell would replace Carrey as the king of comedy....all because of Carells performance in Bruce. Come, steve times a wasting hurry up!
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I'm looking forward to it.
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Feb 28, 2007 1:32:31 PM CST
I just read the script treatment from the link above ..
by kinghenryviii
And I take back my earlier post - if this is indeed true. My thoughts now are this will be a sucka punch to humor. Steve! What have you done?
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Patrick Warburton signed to be Hymie.
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I'm sorry, but I'm still totally creeped out by the pairing of 44-year-old Carell with 24-year-old Hathaway. I would've loved to have seen someone more age-appropriate as 99 - especially since those possibilities are so much more interesting, ranging from the likes of Sandra Bullock to Monica Bellucci.
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Fuck. This is really a great cast. It could be the funniest movie ever to hit the big screen or a huge dud. My god with that much talent they better not fuck this up. I LOVED Get Smart in reruns as a child.
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That's where the comedy gold is. Not in just acting silly or situation-inappropriate. If this had been played totally straight-faced as a serious Bond-style spy caper, with Max totally oblivious to his own ineptitude and how it creates vast Rube Goldberg-like domino effects, this would be a classic. And don't be afraid to cast an "older" woman (i.e., out of the 20-something bracket). Again, it has to be sincere and straight-faced, letting the ridiculous gadgets and situations speak for themselves without self-reflexive "Wow, I am sooooo goofy!" humor.Toilet humor isn't funny in and of itself. Pee jokes just don't mean anything once you're out of 6th grade. Even a bunch of funny jokes crammed into a single film without any reason for being there = doom.Get Smart the TV show succeeded because of the creative forces at work who understood humor and how to play it.The Get Smart website says the script turns Max into a fat (ha, ha, ha, fat guys are funny losers = really tired joke; where are all the skinny loser guys that actually exist in the real world?) wannabe spy (gotta make him the lovable dope everyman) who loses weight to try to be a CONTROL spy and butts heads with 99 (hey, surprise, surprise - I bet they fall in love by film's end). To make matters worse, they turn Max into a bumbling, inept, goofball a la Steve Martin's anal raping of Inspector Clouseau.Where in this is there ANYTHING to get excited about? And all the "I love dumb fun movies" apologists will no doubt fly their flags, in complete ignorance of the fact that they have forsaken any semblance of quality control just to go spend $8 for popcorn somewhere.Bend over, movie-goers. That unlubed cock that Hollywood is inching toward your anus is all thanks to you yourselves. Hollywood rapes you because you ask for it.
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...that there is so much acting talent that it will break box-office records?
OK...
Would you believe that it will make the studio's money back?
Umm... Yeah...
How about it'll be a big dud if they don't improve the script?
Right...
I hope that they're pulling the old, "Put the fake script on the internet, but film a completely different one." trick. -
...I have the theme song in my head while praying that they don't change it by techno-fying, or metal-izing it.
Da-dut-dada-dut...
(I always wanted a Sunbeam Tiger) -
Anne Hathaway?
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They just shouldn't have the name of great TV-classics...
The old show is recently running on TV again. I haven't seen it since 15 years or so and I was really surprised how funny it still is! While a "newer" show like SLEDGE HAMMER isn'T really that funny anymore (it has some good laughs, but it was way funnier back in the 80's), I still laugh my ass of in every episode of GET SMART! I hope that Steve Carrell (who seems to be pretty smart [no pun intended] and a fan of the show) will say at one point 'no, give me a better script'. Or even better: The script review is fake and the script is great :) -
'Cause if he isn't this is DEAD TO ME.
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"Missed it by THAT much"
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The TV show holds up VERY well. I only wish Henry or Brooks or someone could have been in on this.Best line: "Zis is KAOS! We don't 'shush' here."
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She's WAY too young for the part.
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for our band to practice in, in high school. presumably because we were annoyingly loud. he called it the cone of silence.
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So far. Now to complete the rest of the crew.......
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Gilligan's island never had a big screen movie. aw... $hit I spoke that outloud.
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She's sexy as hell; I only wish she'd get outta legitimate films and into porn, and quickly! She could be this generation's Bridgette Monet ("I Like to Watch", among others). At the very least, she could get herself into the Barefoot Confidential series...
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"Fuck a lot of women."
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Haven't seen it since. Get Smart was only famous because of the lead actor...put anyone else in the role and the show would not have been a success.
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As great as this cast is, this could so south PDQ. The overall concept is really weak... Oh and Hathaway has nice boobies :)
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BJ novak was being considered, as writer, for this project early on, after dozens of established writers passed. and robert weide - for director. the production company went through any and all writers and directors for this project, in development. no takers. i got my hands on some early drafts through someone who was closely involed- they were shit. havent read the shooting draft, so i will reserve judgement. lets just say it was a painful process, and something tells me the end result will be the same. does any 18-30 year old care about this show? do your parents care? it's like making a film version of Laugh-In. what a joke. Mod Squad, Bewitched.... Get Smart? hopefully Carrell can escape unscathed.
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(so he gotta not eat).
Here we go with yet another projection of Hollyweird neurosis.
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I completely agree with you. Hathaway's a cute young thing, but she doesn't have the gravitas as an actress to play 99. Maybe she'll surprise me, but an older actess would have been nice. Bullock, I suppose, would be good. I think Bellucci's too "big" for the role. Not physically, but she'd completely make Carrell look like a wimp. Ah well, it doesn't matter because it'll probably stink. Not too many of these TV Movies turn out very well. I wouldn't even think about seeing it if it weren't for Carrell. Still, I'm gonna let the reviews sway me on this one.
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As long as it has the old "Max-kneeling-on-the-dying-guy's-chest" gag then I'm cool with it.
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Thankfully. He's some new agent character, 23 I think. How much you wanna bet it's not terribly interesting?
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questionable. highly questionable. little miss sunshine was whack. oscars be damned. eddie murphy deserved it more than arkin...
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Would you believe the script is terrible?
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C'mon, the thought must have occurred to someone working on this project.
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Just wanna know where gotta eat!! came from. Thats all i wanted to know. I'd love to know where that particular phrase started if anybody knows.
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I could've sworn it started in some Mori article where, as a way of excusing someone taking a hack job/role just to pay the bills, he said "_____'s gotta eat." Pretty vague, I know, but I could've sworn it was from a Mori article.
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Much appreciated.
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