"Get Smart"!

It's the original bumbling spy! Here is the opening from the 60s TV show.

And here's the trailer for the movie that's due out next summer. Steve Carell and Alan Arkin (from "Little Miss Sunshine") are excellent casting choices. Anne Hathaway looks terrific as Agent 99, and The Rock, cool and statuesque; I certainly hope he gets some comic moments too.

What I especially like about the original show is the corporate-world details applied to the world of spying. My favorite - "In the interest of company morale, both CONTROL and KAOS have their own bowling teams." (CONTROL and KAOS are enemy agencies.) And who can forget the shoe phone? I'm guessing the movie version will be set in the present day, so a cell phone will likely replace the shoe phone. At least the phone booth/elevator is still around!

Posted by Monoceros at July 27, 2007 5:48 PM