Get Smart (film)
| Get Smart | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Peter Segal |
| Written by | Tom J. Astle Matt Ember created by Mel Brooks Buck Henry Leonard Stern |
| Produced by | Alex Gartner, Charles Roven, Andrew Lazar |
| Starring | Steve Carell Anne Hathaway Alan Arkin |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Language | English |
Get Smart is an upcoming film adaptation of the hit spy parody 1960's television show Get Smart. The film will star Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart [1] and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 [2]. Alan Arkin will play the Chief. Terrance Stamp and The Rock will also star. Shooting is scheduled to begin in February of 2007, and the film will be released on June 20, 2008.
Plot
Template:Spoiler Maxwell Smart is an overweight intelligence expert for the secret government security agency CONTROL. He dreams of being a spy in the field, like his hero, CONTROL Agent 23, portrayed by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. When enemy agency KAOS breaks into CONTROL files and learns the identity of all CONTROL spies, The Chief (played by Alan Arkin) is forced to place Smart in the field, working with recent plastic surgery patient Agent 99. 99 must teach Smart that there's more to being a spy than following the manual.
Smart and 99 chase down Nenad Krstic, a nuclear weapons smuggler for KAOS. Overeager wanna-be spy Max shoots the spy before they can get any information from him. The duo hunt clues that lead them to an Italian Bakery and KAOS agent Szczerbiak. Max and 99 manage to defeat the villains, and celebrate their victory by having sex.
KAOS turns serious, threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb in America if their demands are not met. It's up to Max and 99 to team together again and save the day.
Fan Reaction
The Get Smart fan site WouldYouBelieve.com [3] previewed an unauthorized early draft of the script [4], 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."