Didn't bring in Mel Brooks or Buck Henry? That is so not how Hollywood works. For one thing they wrote the TV show over 40 years ago, which makes them pretty old now and positively ancient by Hollywood standards. Check the ages of most screenwriters whose scripts are produced these days and you will find most of them are under 40, often way under. I know people who have been successful in that line of work and they say you're dead as a screenwriter at 40 unless you're a huge, bankable name. (And some of those hits better have been recent). They also couldn't care less who wrote the original. They all think they can do better, even if it takes six of them ;-)

>I'm a huge Get Smart fan. Bought the entire series on DVD as soon as it was released. I've seen mixed reviews of the movie. Mostly it's a bad script. They writers didn't bring in Mel Brooks or Buck Henry to help much and didn't understand the comedy of the original series. However, I've heard the cast is terrific. I hope to get there this weekend. I wanted to go last weekend, but missed it by that much.
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>>Unrelated, did you go see "Get Smart"? I had planned to but was deterred by all the bad reviews. It sounds pretty bad. (On the bright side, "The Love Guru" sounds infinitely worse -- those are some of the most negative reviews I have ever seen).