John Mulaney in Talks to Star in Reimagining of Classic Spy Comedy GET SMART
Warner Bros. is moving forward with a reimagining of the classic spy comedy Get Smart, with comedian and four-time Emmy winner John Mulaney in talks to star in the film. The project is early in the works with Now You See Me: Now You Don’t scribe Seth Grahame-Smith writing the screenplay.
The TV series Get Smart was originally created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry and ran from 1965-1970 for 138 episodes. The story was a spoof of the James Bond films. Don Adams starred as bumbling know-it-all agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) opposite Barbara Feldon (Agent 99) and Edward Platt, who played the Chief.
They work for a secret U.S. government counterintelligence agency called Control, which was in a constant battle with evil org, Kaos. While Smart always has the upper hand over Kaos, he was often incompetent. The series won seven Emmys including two for Outstanding Comedy Series.
The series was followed by a 1980 feature film, The Nude Bomb, as well as the 1989 made-for-TV sequel to the series, Get Smart, Again!. There was a 1995 revival series that ran for seven episodes. And the most recent reboot was a 2008 feature film adaptation from Warner Bros., starring Steve Carell as Smart, Anne Hathaway as Agent 99, Alan Arkin as the Chief, and Dwayne Johnson as Agent 23.
This summer, John Mulaney, who previously wrote for Saturday Night Live, sold out the iconic Wrigley Field on July 11, becoming the first comedian ever to headline the ballpark.
The comedian just announced Mulaney Takes Manhattan, a special nine-show New York City run that takes him to nine iconic venues over nine nights, from Comedy Cellar and Blue Note to Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall, culminating in a finale at Madison Square Garden, running January 7-15, 2027. These shows are part of Mulaney’s latest stand-up tour, John Mulaney: Mister Whatever.
He has hosted Saturday Night Live six times, will next appear in the Amazon MGM Studios upcoming fall David O. Russell feature Madden starring Nicolas Cage as the famed football coach and NFL commentator.
via: Deadline