Get Smart

[Kal]

I didnt find anything about this movie but its been in the plans for a while and apparently now they are ready to get started.

Arkin gets 'Smart' for Warners pic

Oscar winner Alan Arkin is reuniting with his Little Miss Sunshine co-star Steve Carell in the big-screen version of Get Smart, which Peter Segal is directing for Warner Bros. Pictures.

Arkin will play the chief of CONTROL, the organization that fights the evil forces of KAOS. Edward Platt played the character in the 1965 TV series.

Carell is on board as secret agent Maxwell Smart, with Anne Hathaway as Agent 99. Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Terrence Stamp also have been cast.

Andrew Lazar, Charles Roven and Alex Gartner are producing the comedy. Mosaic, Mad Chance and Callahan Films are the production entities involved.

Greg Silverman is overseeing for the studio.

Arkin, repped by Endeavor and Principal Entertainment, won a best supporting actor Oscar on Sunday for his work in Sunshine. Arkin's upcoming projects include Rendition, with Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, and Sunshine Cleaning, with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt.

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Davitian spies 'Smart' role as KAOS baddie
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Ken Davitian, who as producer Azamat Bagatov suffered the many indignities of 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. Mosaic, Mad Chance and Callahan Films are the production entities involved.

Greg Silverman is overseeing for the studio.

"It's my first film that is with so many big people," said Davitian, repped by Rebel Entertainment. "It's really an honor for me to work on this."

It wasn't long ago that Davitian was doing bit parts in more dramatic fare such as "Holes," "A Man Apart," "SWAT" and shows like "Six Feet Under." To help pay the bills, he even opened up a French dip sandwich restaurant in Sherman Oaks called the Dip. His role in "Borat," along with the subsequent infamy of naked wrestling sequence and appearance on the Golden Globes, have changed all of that.

"I'm a day player who has finally made it," he said. "And that's what we're all working at. It's always about getting to the next level and being in a situation where you can utilize your talents and do the work that you really want to do."

Davitian will be seen on an upcoming episode of "ER" and recently booked a role on an upcoming episode of "Ghost Whisperer." And he opened up a second Dip restaurant in the Hollywood & Highland complex. He credits his older age and his family for keeping the instant fame from going to his head.

"I'm older than most famous people," he said, "and getting famous in the later years, I'm pretty well-balanced. I'm having a great time. I'm finally starting do to what I love to do."

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First look: Would you believe a 'Smart' spy spoof?
By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY

The new Get Smart movie has to contend with two big changes from the original 1965 TV show: the fall of communism and the rise of feminism.

Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway are at work on the remake as spymasters Maxwell Smart and Agent 99, taking over for the late Don Adams and Barbara Feldon, now 75. The movie is set for release in June 2008.

Director Peter Segal (50 First Dates, Tommy Boy) says the challenge was figuring out a way to update a silly Cold War comedy for the world after 9/11, finding things to laugh at in the face of global fear.

"We try to show the disconnect between government agencies as we saw right after 9/11 when the CIA and FBI weren't really communicating," Segal says. "We wanted to make sure we were politically satirical."

The anarchy group known as KAOS is back for more foiling, and the mockery tends to stay closer to bureaucratic bungling.

"Obviously, Max works for CONTROL, and there's a lot of infighting within Washington over who's responsible for which parts of the world," Segal says.

The story focuses on KAOS' blackmailing the United States by threatening to give away launch codes for nuclear bombs that are in the hands of bad guys.

"Max has to figure out where the bombs are and stop them, ultimately saving the world," Segal says.

Meanwhile, the iconic shoe-phone and Cone of Silence make their return.

Carell's Oscar-winning Little Miss Sunshine co-star Alan Arkin takes on the role of CONTROL's Chief, a gruff straight man originally played by the late Edward Platt.

The film updates the relationship between the two heroes, telling an origin story of how Smart became an agent and met 99. In this version, she is the veteran spy who takes the newcomer under her wing.

"In the TV show, she was the woman who stood firmly behind her man," Segal says. When Smart failed to live up to his name, Feldon's character tended to giggle it away with an eye roll and an "Oh, Max!"

"That's a little dated for today," Segal says. "99 is a little more kick-(butt) and tougher, more emancipated. She's more the female James Bond, teaching him the ropes."

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Teaser Trailer here.

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Anne Hathaway on Get Smart's Agent 99
Source: ComingSoon

At the New York junket for her new Jane Austen semi-biopic Becoming Jane, actress Anne Hathaway talked with ComingSoon.net about her upcoming role of Agent 99 in Warner Bros. remake of the Mel Brooks television show Get Smart.

We asked her if it was as daunting stepping into the original Agent 99 Barbara Feldman's shoes as it was portraying the beloved author of her new movie. "I learned on 'Ella Enchanted' that you'll never make everyone happy," Hathaway responded. "Even if you make a cute movie, if it's based on a beloved person, a beloved book, a beloved TV series, anything beloved, you will never be able to make everyone happy. It was proven to me again with 'Becoming Jane' so by the time I got to 'Get Smart,' I really just wanted to hear that Mel Brooks, Leonard Stern and Barbara Feldman approved of my casting and they all did. Once I had that in my back pocket, I just said, 'Okay, I feel really comfortable going off and creating now.' I couldn't get Jane Austen's approval, but the people's reaction to the film has made me feel good. In that sense, I feel more audacious playing Jane Austen, but I was equally intimidated."

We also wondered how hard it was to play the role opposite the hilarious Steve Carell without laughing through every take, since Agent 99 is supposed to remain completely stoic and serious during his shenanigans. "I lost it on-camera and ruined a really great take once, and so then, the pressure was really on for me and I never wanted to do that again, and so I just started to work on deep breathing. I found that biting the inside of my lip helped a lot. Below frame, I was just pinching my wrist. I mean anything I could do to distract me. A lot of our scenes together didn't shoot until the end of the film, so by that point, we were really comfortable with each other, and we really just took off and had so much fun. I hope everyone else enjoys this as much as we did, but it is completely impossible to keep a straight face."

"You know he can't keep a straight face around?" Hathaway asked enticingly. "Alan Arkin. We did a scene where Alan had us all in stitches, but the rest of us were off-camera so as long as we didn't make a noise, we could just be busting a gut. Steve was on-camera with him and he just kept f*cking up the takes. It was wonderful!" So it looks like Steve Carell has his own kryptonite in his form of his Little Miss Sunshine co-star, the Oscar-winning actor who is playing the Chief in Get Smart.

Next up for Hathaway is playing a coked-up model in Jonathan Demme's dark comedy Dancing with Sheba, co-starring the long-absent Debra Winger as Hathaway's mother, and we'll have more with Hathaway before Becoming Jane opens on August 3 in select cities. Get Smart is scheduled for a release on June 20, 2008.

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[Pubrick]

she's lost weight, or that's not her body.

either way, pete won't like what this will do to her cankles..

[Stefen]

omg

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International Trailer

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New Trailer here.

[Kal]

This movie is shit. Steve Carrell is funny but I felt that I was watching Michael Scott and not Maxwell Smart. Anne Hathaway is gorgeous.

[Sleepless]

Saw this on opening night largely because I wanted to actively not see Love Guru. I like Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway. But this film is awful. It's not funny. It's rubbish. It's shit.

But still probably better than Love Guru.

Edit:

forgot to say, has everyone else noticed that DTV movie with the two tech geeks from this? If I thought the actual movie was crap what makes you think I'm going to spend $20 a a rip-off cash-in that's probably even worse?

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I was probably in good mood watching this because it was funnier than I expected, but more chuckles than actual LOL's. Sure it delves into Austin Powers territory a bit and it has a sort of Michael-Scott-as-agent quality to it, but Carell and Hathaway make a nice duo, and it was their chemistry together that won me over. I've seen some of the original episodes, so it was a nice nod to the show in capturing a bit of the essence of what made the series a success. If only they were given a better, funnier script.

On a side note, the HD camerawork was highly noticeable. Any time a fast bit of action or fire explosion, etc. came on screen, you could just tell it was shot on video.

[SiliasRuby]

This as fun but not extremely funny. It had its moments overall but I really was hoping for more slapstick and screwball comedy. Just when they were getting more into that category, they took another turn and I became disappointed.