{"id":1229,"date":"2008-10-07T08:35:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:54:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:54:26","slug":"would-you-believe-a-get-smart-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/07\/would-you-believe-a-get-smart-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Believe A GET SMART Sequel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After raking in more than $360 million worldwide at the box office, it comes as no surprise that Warner Brothers has a sequel to this summer&#8217;s Steve Carell comedy <strong>Get Smart<\/strong>. No word yet as to whether the rest of the cast would return, but it seems likely that they would.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes buried in a story in today&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110806103352\/http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117993537?refCatId=13\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/em> about Carell signing a new three-year first look with Warners. Carell is forming his own production company, Carousel Productions, to develop projects for the actr to both star in and to\u00a0produce for others.<\/p>\n<p>The article states that the <strong>Get Smart<\/strong> sequel and the first-look production deal are seperate from each other, but it would be hard not to think that the grosses for the <strong>Get Smart<\/strong> film weren&#8217;t the motivation for each. I have to admit that I waspleasantly surprised by how good the fillm turned out. True, it weighed in a bit heavier on the action side than on the comedy side, but I thought that Carell did a decent job of taking a character that was so identified and built around another performer&#8217;s persona &#8211; in this case Don Adams who originated the role of Maxwell Smart on television in the 1960s &#8211; and managed to retain most of the core elements while making it his own.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/get-smart-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">SlashFilm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">After raking in more than $360 million worldwide at the box office, it comes as no surprise that Warner Brothers has a sequel to this summer&#8217;s Steve Carell comedy Get Smart. No word yet as <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/07\/would-you-believe-a-get-smart-sequel\/\" title=\"Would You Believe A GET SMART Sequel?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10285],"tags":[7868,780,24,555,47],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-tv-news","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-get-smart","10":"tag-sequel","11":"tag-steve-carell","12":"tag-tv-to-film"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}