??!?!?!!?!?! ZUH (Get Smart anticipation thread I guess)

just reading the names in parentheses is enough to give me fits. ken davitian, for those who don't remember, is borat's "producer" from the film.

fits of glee....?

This will not be good.

Trailer here. At least on LOLZ moment, and Hathaway as Agent 99 = HOTT.

I mean the casting here gives in an alarmingly small window of mediocrity. it will either be totally awesome or an utter, utter flop on all levels.
Ooh god dammit I can't see the trailer at work. is it on youtube?

Yassir.

the trailer's pretty shit, but it's just a teaser and they've got another 10 months to work on it.

how can you say that trailer was shit, it had hathaboobs running in slow motion and The Rock in it

would have made a great 5-second trailer!

it will either be totally awesome or an utter, utter flop on all levels.

fixed.

it will either had better be totally awesome

Fixeder.

Yeah, this'll totally be great.

kenan.....otm?

It's just that Carell couldn't be better cast.

yeah but anne hathaway couldn't be more miscast is the issue here.

tho i am always a+++ w ppl giving the rock more work.

If you seriously think this is going to be good, you are a Grade A sucker.

you can just shut up

Waste $10 to see this movie, then tell me to shut up.

I really should not be allowed in any movie threads ever.

for a theology major, you have so little faith

hahaha

Some stuff:

We just watched a ridiculous trailer for "Get Smart." Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) looks like a crossGetsmart between Eva Green and Kate Beckinsale in the film, and it looks like she's doing some sick stunt work too.

At one point in the clip we just saw, she says: "I don't want work with Max; he has no experience." Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) deadpans: "Well, that is a kick in the ... !" (You get the idea.)

The trailer closed to thunderous applause that was topped only by the fan insanity that followed when Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson (who plays Agent 23) and Carell appeared onstage.

Asked to compare the new film to the 1960s TV series, director Peter Segal said: "We're just that other car in the garage beside the classic Corvette."

Carell joked that Segal never wore pants or underwear on the set. Apparently, the tone of "Get Smart" is "Bourne Supremacy: The Comedy."

And Segal confirmed that the characters of Hymie the Robot and Agent 13 will be appearing in cameos.

I have to admit, watching the teaser, I really laughed at the beads thing.

I am so conflicted about this

The trailers seem to get worse by the day

do you guys not remember the 90s get smart relaunch??? i was like 10 and i knew that shit sucked.

Tom, are you watching trailers that feature Julia Roberts and Ben Stiller, or do you need glasses?

http://www.ioffer.com/i/152-UNAIRED-TV-SHOW-PILOTS-50-S-90-S-VERY-RARE-52-DVD-42639711

^^ want this for my birthday this year, kthx.

CAPTAIN NICE: This is the original 1967 pilot show from the creators of GET SMART. Captain Nice was a police chemist who accidentally creates a formula that gives him super strength. Starring William Daniels.

MADAME SIN This is the original 1972 movie pilot for a proposed UK spy thriller. It starred Robert Wagner and Bette Davis.

guys i worked on a stage production of the pilot of get smart in high school

Looking forward to seeing Dwayne Johnson in this

I'm starting to feel like Tombot did a month back. This story is so not helping:

"I didn't think there was any way to improve upon what Don Adams did," says Carell, who's perched on a banquette, casually dressed in jeans and a gray sweat shirt.

"That characterization is very distinct. I think to do an impersonation wouldn't have served the movie or done him justice. So my feeling was that I would take the essence of the character he created without the specific voice and mannerisms, the essence being a man who is actually quite proficient at what he does. People tend to remember Maxwell Smart as being a bumbling Inspector Clouseau kind of character, and I've never perceived him that way. If anything, he's counterintuitive. He was a formidable spy. He always got his man in a roundabout way."

...

"That's what I was hoping for with 'Get Smart' -- when we were originally talking about what the movie should look or feel like, I thought it should be more along the lines of a comedic 'Bourne Identity' than a spy spoof."

Sierra Mist, playing off the secret agent theme, plans a limited time custom flavor called "Undercover Orange." The teen- and young adult-targeted product is clear, like water, but tastes like soda.

I saw this at the store last night and was SO disappointed they didn't call it Agent Orange.

Subway has sly but pivotal product placement in the film as Smart sheds some pounds to become a superspy. One of his tools: Subway sandwiches. The chain will use, "Get Smart, Eat Fresh," as the promo tagline. "It's the perfect extension of our message," said Tony Pace, CMO. "His weight loss is part of the backstory, and that worked out very well for us."

Thank you brandweek.com

Fun interview with Mel Brooks about it all, plus other things (son Max and the zombie books, etc.). Also, this concluding wisdom:

Q: When you meet the public, which of your projects do you find yourself talking about the most?

A: "Spaceballs." I don't know why. They are always talking about Just Plain Yogurt and President Skroob. The young people see it. Older people will talk to me about "Blazing Saddles." But little kids will always have a "Spaceballs" reference. In fact, we're doing "Spaceballs" as an animated series. I'm doing two voices: Just Plain Yogurt and President Skroob – who isn't that far from the Bush administration.

Alan Arkin as Chief gives me a dribble of hope for this...

Carell's take on Maxwell Smart is actually OTM. He did a lot of bumbling but he also had a lot of flashes of brilliance.

Mel Brooks on the CIA in above interview: "They want to do a good job. But they don't hire enough [multicultural people]. They hire too many WASPs and they get too much white-bread thinking."

so, what he said for "multicultural people" was...

schmettas

kikes?

beatniks! lolololol

What does schmetta mean?

Nothing! I think. I just vaguely made it up but I've probably heard something like it.

I believe this will be great- Steve Carroll is a great actor, despite Anchorman, and Alan motherfuckin Arkin! now I am as happy as a little girl.

I still want to know exactly how the pre-Producers Mel and the pre-Graduate Buck Henry met up to create the series.

Despite Anchorman! He was the funniest thing in that movie.

Jack Black was pretty funny, too.

He did almost steal the whole damn film, true.

Nothing! I think. I just vaguely made it up but I've probably heard something like it.

XD

Missed it by WAY MORE than "that much."

"Hathaway's Get Smart Kissing Scene Ruined By Conjunctivitis Scare" ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Sierra Mist, playing off the secret agent theme, plans a limited time custom flavor called "Undercover Orange." The teen- and young adult-targeted product is clear, like water, but tastes like soda.

I saw this at the store last night and was SO disappointed they didn't call it Agent Orange.

-- Abbott, Sunday, May 4, 2008 5:34 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

that stuff is pretty good. I HAVE HAD ALL THE SIERRA MISTS.

will they be re-running the old show because of this

we can only hope.

yikes, Carell is 20 years older than Hathaway... (There's a contrived plot thing to make their pairing less icky in this white elephant.)

so you all successfully avoided the top-grossing movie last weekend? It's amazing what some ppl find funny, I think ian & i chuckled about 3x.

I know why the hell they kept flashing back to him being fattey jubs (Subway tie-in that was never really explicated), but wtf was the point of it?

WHY DID YOU HAVE MAXWELL SMART THINKING ABOUT BEING FATTEY ALLA TIME?

Also wtf at making her have had some complete plastic surgery redo? Was any of this in the show at all?

My favorite parts were the pratfalls. I would've been fine with "Spies Fall Down: the Movie," but you know, people these days like "talking" and such. Oil well.

I think every movie Carrell has starred in has been fetid, lukewarm shit. Compared to "Dan in Real Life," "Get Smart" is Marx Bros-level rofflicious. Fuck you, "Dan IRL"!

Like Spy Kids 1 & 2 were a million times more entertaining, funny, and interesting movies than this.

Missed it by WAY MORE than "that much."

Exactly. Tho dumping Koechner, & using Warburton for more than the punchline of a stupid joke, would've helped a whole bunch. Also, not showing the movie's best bits during the trailer.

Also, using Hathaway for more than her stems.

Also, not sucking.

Was any of this in the show at all?

No, funny '60s TV spies didn't need SEMITRAGIC BACKSTORIES! (Tho I suspect the real reason for 99's surgery was cuz Smart-Carell could be her dad.)

That Koechner guy really annoyed me, I have no idea what he's known for.

The TV show was a lot more Jewish, which is why one of the movie's few funny lines was "My name is Nudnik Shpilkus."

The mambo scene was maybe the best.

yeah I don't get the impression they made much of at attempt at retaining a Mel Brooks vibe with the jokes.

They just didn't make an attempt at retaining joeks.

aside from the Rock putting staples in ppl's heads.

cut from the Kliph Nesteroff book: Don Adams, joke thief and on-set bully

Occasionally Adams used material Dana hadn’t written – which was a problem. While some comedians were mere joke thieves, Don Adams was a klyptomaniac. Dana says, “He took a lot of material, some of it from Woody Allen.” He released a comedy record with a verbatim recitation of a Jackie Mason routine that Mason had already pressed to wax. Bob Newhart was another of Don’s victims. “It was very early in my career, and the line of work I was in - comedy – wasn’t making me any money,” said Newhart. “I decided to become a comedy writer and sell my material to established comedians. I felt the Submarine Commander could very easily be adapted to Don Adams because of his deadpan delivery. I reached Don when he was in Chicago for a show and he agreed to take a look. He [said] it wasn’t the type of material he was looking for. Two years later, I’m watching The Steve Allen Show, and Don walked out onstage and performed a chunk of the Submarine Commander. Word for word. I couldn’t believe it. I was yelling at the TV, ‘That’s mine! You’re stealing my routine!’ I was furious. However, I reasoned that if other comedians were going to steal my routines, I had better perform them myself.”

Get Smart’s successful five seasons made Don Adams a star, but his love-hate relationship with show business continued. “Don was the show’s leader and set the tone for each day,” said Get Smart director Alan Rafkin. “If he showed up in a lousy mood, it could be a long and tedious day. He was kind of a bully in that he picked on people who couldn’t fight back." Pete Barbutti says, “I didn’t get along very well with Don Adams, but then again nobody did. He was unapproachable. He would walk out, do his lines and disappear. Don was so bloody insecure that he had to carry his Emmys around with him in his car.” Bill Dana says, "The only thing Don enjoyed was going to the track. He didn’t enjoy anything else."

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2014/08/television-comedy-in-the-early-1960s-by-kliph-nesteroff.html