They're remaking Get Smart now

[Dark Jezter]

As for other 60's shows being made into movies, Miami Vice and I Dream of Jeannie are currently in pre-production and a script for Hogan's Heroes has been floating around hollywood for a while now.

Miami Vice could be pretty cool. The TV series actually ended up having a large impact on 1980s clothing styles and pop culture, so I think that the movie remake should be set in the 1980s rather than modern day (much like how the recent Starsky & Hutch remake was set in the 1970s).

Considering just how politically-incorrect Hogan's Heroes is by today's standards, a movie version of it will undoubtably be sanitized until it bears little resemblance to the original series.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

You know... Maverick was not bad at all as a movie, and I somehow suspect that the crew had some fun making it.

The Fugitive was okay.

But in general remakes... umm... suck. (Wild Wild West, Charlie's Angels, Lost in Space*...

The Auld Grump

*A friend of mine took me to see Lost in Space... he did not want to see it, he wanted to see the expressions on my face as I saw it... he thought that was funny.

 

[Morpheus]

I'm anxiously awaiting the return of Kolchak: The Night Stalker this fall. Man, that was a good tv show...

 

[Jamdin]

I admit that some tv remakes are better than the originals but they are few. The Dark Shadows: Revival mini-series was better than the original in some ways. Kolchak: The Night Stalker is going to be interesting to see.

Oh, we can't forget the Wanted: Dead or Alive movie that payed tribute to the tv series. Rutger Hauer played a descendant of the Steve McQueen character. I actually liked that one.

 

[Steve Jung]

Trust me... I know what I'm doing...

God I loved that show!

Sledge Hammer is out on DVD now.

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

Get Smart? Why not see if Matthew Broderick would play another of Don Adams' characters? Similarly Stewart French could be Maxwell Smart (both played Inspector Gadget).

For some nostalgia, Mel Brooks plays the Chief with Don Adams as Larrabie. Alternatively, Brooks is the leader of KAOS while Adams is Chief. Hrm. Andy Dick as the head of KAOS and / or Dana Carvey as Maxwell Smart? Another consideration for Chief is Leslie Neilson, who goes waaaay back with Brooks.

Maxwell Smart: I'm getting complaints from the landlord about the gun battles in the hall, and the bombs in the lobby, and the knife fights in the elevator.
Chief: Well, when you rent an apartment to a secret agent, you've got to expect those things.
Maxwell Smart: But he doesn't know I'm a secret agent.
Chief: Well, how do you explain people attacking you and shooting at you?
Maxwell Smart: Well, I told him I work for the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

 

[trancejeremy]

Sledge Hammer is out on DVD now.

Yeah, season 1 came out last year, and season 2 (the last) came out in May or April.

I don't have season 2 yet, but they really did a great job with Season 1. Removed the laugh track, have a little booklet with amusing stuff, put the show on 4 one sided DVDs with graphics instead of 2 double sided DVDs (which I hate, since they are easier to scratch).

And it's only like $35 or so.

Compare that to the only other DVD set I have, Buck Rogers. That was $80 and is on 6 double sided DVDs, no frills at all.

 

[der_kluge]

Steve Carrell would be brilliant in this role. I thought he totally upstaged Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty. He's simply hilarious.

 

[Rackhir]

I thought that the Brady Bunch Movies were quite possibly the best of the "classic" Tv series remakes, because they took what made the original shows what they were and then turned it up to 11. Plus the clash between the characters acting like they did in the series and everyone else acting more realisitically was very funny.

To be perfectly honest I was never actually quite sure what to make of Charlie's Angels (1). I found it to be a very surreal movie in many respects.

The first "Mission Impossible" movie I thought was an excellent example of a bad adaptation that did boku box office. The second movie was much better both as a movie and as an adaptation, but both missed a crucial aspect of the series. In the TV eps, they got the bad guys to destroy themselves.

The actors for the Addam's family were fantastic, but the plots sucked.

Much as I like Steve Carrell, I give the movie no better than a 1 in 10 chance of being any good. Most of these remakes simply serve as a good definition for the word "Lame"

 

[mojo1701]

I thought that the Brady Bunch Movies were quite possibly the best of the "classic" Tv series remakes, because they took what made the original shows what they were and then turned it up to 11. Plus the clash between the characters acting like they did in the series and everyone else acting more realisitically was very funny.

Or, for the decade-impaired: I'm gonna make some super-groovy dough and be a happenin' kinda guy; isn't that neato?