They're remaking Get Smart now

[NewJeffCT]

I used to love the show, but I'm leery of a movie. Supposedly, the original writers are on board... Some guy named Steve Carrell is playing Maxwell Smart.

Who do you get for Agent 99?

 

[diaglo]

Who do you get for Agent 99?

Angelina Jolie

 

[Fast Learner]

Some guy named Steve Carrell is playing Maxwell Smart.

Some guy?

Steve Carrell is an excellent choice, and could be fantastic. I literally would not have been at all interested in it but for this casting choice. Excellent!

 

[KaosDevice]

Well, you know, as long as this is as good as that remake of the Mod Squad...

 

[takyris]

Dude, I don't want Steve Carell sleeping with Angelina Jolie! It would ruin his career! (And, c'mon, you know that's the main reason male actors want to make movies with Angelina Jolie these days. Alexander? Yep. Mr. & Mrs. Smith? Yep.

Ah, what do I know? I'm just bitter because I miss intense-but-not-man-stealing Angelina Jolie from the early days, like when she was in that "(something or other) the Heart" movie, the romantic comedy-drama where Gillian Anderson and Jon Stewart get together, and Sean Connery is with an older woman, and Doctor Greene from E.R. plays a priest sleeping with Madeline Stowe while Dennis Quaid, Madeline Stowe's husband, goes off drinking... You'd really think that I'd remember the title of this movie, based on remembering that much else. Anyway, Angelina Jolie just ate up the screen in that movie. Total presence. Totally there. Completely intense and real. Possibly not seducing co-stars yet, although who's to say?

Steve Carell (who I'm probably mispelling) is/was on the Daily Show as a reporter, and he is/was on NBC's retake of the British hit "The Office", if I'm getting the name right. I believe he has a role in the upcoming "Bewitched" as well. Good comic actor (although according to the AICN guys, Bewitched is the first movie to fail to use him well).

 

[Desdichado]

That they had the good taste to want to remake Get Smart! already speaks well for the project. Now, if they can just keep everyone else's hands off the project as it develops, it may be worth seeing...

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Oh boy, yet another remake of a TV show...

So, for "classic" TV shows remade into movies we so far have...

The Addams Family (1964-1966)
The Avengers (1961-1969)
The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-1971)
Bewitched (1964-1972)**
The Brady Bunch (1969-1974)
The Bullwinkle Show (1961-1973)
Car 54, Where Are You? (1961-1963)
Charlie's Angels (1976-1981)
Dennis the Menace (1959-1963)
Dragnet (1951-1959)
The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985)**
The Flintstones (1960-1966)
The Fugitive (1963-1967)
George of the Jungle (1967-1970)
Get Smart (1965-1970)**
The Honeymooners (1955-1956)*
I Spy (1965-1968)
Josie and the Pussycats (1970-1972)
Lost in Space (1965-1968)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968)
Maverick (1957-1962)
McHale's Navy (1962-1966)
Mission: Impossible (1966-1973)
The Mod Squad (1968-1973)
The Munsters (1964-1966)***
The Saint (1962-1969)
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969-1972)
Shaft (1973-1974)
S.W.A.T. (1975-1976)
Starsky and Hutch (1975-1979)
The Wild Wild West (1965-1969)


I suppose there are a few in here that turned out pretty good: Mission:Impossible, Charlie's Angels, The Fugitive, Addams Family, so I guess I can see why they keep trying.

 

[Arnwyn]

I suppose there are a few in here that turned out pretty good: Charlie's Angels

Uh-oh... looks like you lost me already.

 

[Jamdin]

They remade The Man from U.N.C.L.E. or is one in the works (again)? The only new one that I know of was Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair which was not a remake of the series but a reunion. The 1983 movies actually had Robert Vaughn and David McCallum reprising their original roles unlike the others on Thornir Alekeg's list. The ratings were pretty decent but CBS dropped the ball by not having a new series made.

Also, don't forget that Dark Shadows had a revival series in the early 1990s and was almost made into another series for WB (eek).

I really wish they would just leave classic tv shows alone.

 

[Mercule]

Uh-oh... looks like you lost me already.

IMO, the first one was fun. The second one was bizarre and confused.