Get Smart
Short description
Get Smart is an action comedy based on the 1960s television series of the same name. Maxwell Smart is a diligent analyst at the American intelligence agency CONTROL who dreams of working in the field. When the criminal syndicate KAOS attacks CONTROL headquarters and exposes the identities of its operatives, the Chief has no choice but to promote Max to field agent. Paired with the experienced Agent 99, whose cover is still intact, he is sent to stop KAOS and its plans for world domination. The film sets Max's enthusiasm and clumsiness against the expectations of a serious spy operation.
Peter Segal directed the film, which sits between The Longest Yard and Grudge Match in his filmography. Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember wrote the screenplay, and Charles Roven, Andrew Lazar and Alex Gartner produced. Steve Carell plays Maxwell Smart, with Anne Hathaway as Agent 99, Dwayne Johnson as Agent 23, Alan Arkin as the Chief, Terence Stamp as Siegfried and James Caan as the President. The production involved 83 credited cast members and 128 credited crew members.
Released on June 19, 2008, the film runs 110 minutes. Made for a budget of 80 million dollars, it earned 231 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.5 from around 237,000 votes, while on TMDB it has a 6.2 from about 4,000 votes. The critics' rating stands at 5.7 from 219 reviews, somewhat below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Jennifer Love Hewitt and Rachel McAdams were considered for the role of Agent 99.
- When the project was being developed in 1998, Jim Carrey was considered for the lead role.
- Some scenes were filmed on the grounds of McGill University in Montreal. Other scenes were filmed in Moscow, Washington, and Los Angeles.
- The five-minute skydiving scene, where Maxwell Smart falls out of the plane but is rescued by Agent 99, was filmed for real. Under the guidance of renowned photographer Norman Kent, a team of professional skydivers shot the entire scene over 70 parachute jumps over 4 weeks, exclusively at sunset or dawn.
- Anne Hathaway sustained a shin injury during filming, and the wound had to be stitched.
- Initially, a sequel was planned, but Steve Carell read the script and declined to participate in the filming. He subsequently wrote a sequel script himself, and the film’s director, Peter Segal, even liked the script, however, after this film Anne Hathaway became a star, and Alan Horn, who had been promoting the film, left for another job at ‘Disney,’ so even Carell realized that a sequel wouldn't happen. In 2019, he confirmed in an interview that the moment for a sequel had passed.
- During the skydiving scene, Steve Carell’s stunt double wore a special device under his suit, so at a certain altitude, the jacket would open at the back and deploy a parachute.
- The red "Ferrari" in the film has the license plate N654GT, but Russian license plates cannot contain letters of the English alphabet.
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