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Just jump right in! That's what Uncle did originally.
We met Solo and Kuryakin as fully formed Uncle agents.
Both Flemings books and the Eon film series also jumped right in with fully established Bond.
If they do manage a sequel, I'd get right into a mission, and not their first one either.
Pick things up somewhere down the road with Uncle up and running, and both Solo and Ilya as an established team.
I'd work the rough edges off Kuryakin too. Mold him a little more in the David McCallum mode.
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Sequels though are hard to come by in the spy genre.
The Avengers with Fiennes and Uma. One and done.
The Saint w Val Kilmer: One and done
Personal fave: Remo Williams:The Adventure Begins (1985) nada
And Get Smart (2008) with Steve Carrell and Anne Hathaway, looked like a blockbuster franchise launch....But again nada.
Avengers, The Saint and Get Smart make for 3 smash hit '60s TV spy shows that couldn't launch a later movie run.
Maybe Uncle should pitch Tom Cruise again. He's pretty much guaranteed box-office. Then replace him with a younger Solo when the time comes.
But actually Cavill did a decent job, I thought, so the sporting thing to do is give him another shot.
If box-office is flat again....beg for Cruise and maybe Justin Beiber as Kuryakin :P
The Saint though was a whole different deal from the old Rog series. Still an OK effort but I didn't care, one way or the other about a sequel.
Avengers 98 looked great I thought but fell a bit flat. I'm not surprised there was no follow-up, as much as I would have liked one.
Fiennes and Thurman caught the look and style of the original, but the whole effort seemed kind of forced, almost too deferential. Kind of stiff.
Uncle 2015 suffers a bit in this regard too, with Cavill a tad stiff at times.
It's dicey though, doing justice to an iconic original character, yet still being relaxed enough to make the character your own.
All in all, though, I liked what Cavill did.
Carrell and Hathaway I thought struck a nice balance channeling Don Adams and Barbara Feldon, yet still making the characters their own.
I was really hoping, even expecting, we'd get another Smart. Damn!
Excellent idea. That would have been before Myers got to her as well. Hurley is a legend.
Cavill's range of performance wasn't any less than Robert Vaughn's as Solo. Both are 'stiff' when it comes to that. Sometimes, David McCallum himself hardly showed any facial expressions and the way he spoke seemed like he was sleepwalking or was high to no end.
And agreed about Emma Peel. The lovely Lizzy Hurley should've been her instead of Uma, to whom I mean no disrespect.
Hurley would have been great. She would have loosened things up and brought some attitude.
Yes Cavill gets props. For me, he took a little getting used to but ultimately pulled it off.
Hammer can be salvaged though.Just need to even out the rougher edges.
The fact that Templar was :
a) Val Kilmer
b) An American
Pissed me off before it even got going....
Nice English accent then,just like Costner in Robin Hood.
Love how the American's take British TV heroes and mangle them.
However, I am not opposed to an American actor playing a British character IF the accent is done properly and the dialogue/accent coach does helluva of a job with it. If the Brits can do American accents, then we can do British accents too if taught right.
Let's not forget about Eva Green. She was French and their dialects are awfully different from the Queen's English. Was she or wasn't she convincing as an Englishwoman in Casino Royale?
I'm fine with that,as long as the effort is put in...those 2 films I mentioned are just lazy,disrespectful casting.
Back then I did not really connect the film with the TV series, although I have been a fan since my teenage years.
For me the film works quite well. Having been a huge Val Kilmer fan in the nineties helped quite a bit of course.
Kilmer has done a series of fantastic films and imho The Saint belongs to that series.
-Tombstone
-Batman Forever
-Heat
-The Ghost And The Darkness
-The Saint
-At First Sight
I think I even have to purchase them all on iTunes like...now :lol: although I own the newly released HEAT steelbook and naturally, Batman Forever as well.
Tombstone : Kurt Russell
Batman Forever : Jim Carrey
Heat : De Niro and Pacino
Ghost & Darkness : Michael Douglas
Actually,i haven't seen At First Sight,and never will.
Guy Ritchie's direction is assured and far more clever and entertaining than his current rivals. And his eye for casting, assuming it was his doing, is impeccable.
Cavill and Hammer make an unexpectedly good team. Cavill has a flair for comedy that I haven't known about. Oddly enough, Hugh Grant who appears briefly, is a proved asset but is underused.
All in all though this is a fun movie and not to be missed.
And who guest starred in it :
Wowowowowow !!!
This is very true . Great job as Doc. Very convincing portrayal. Lethal and smooth despite his illness.
One of cinema's great gunslinger portrayals I thought!
Re Hathaway as 99. Yes she was different, but she evolved as the movie went along closer to Feldon's 99.
She warmed to Max as the film went along. The movie was uncharted territory. It was a Max and 99 origins story, rebooted 40 years forward so creative license I think is allowed.
I did notice that the way she said "Oh Max" evolved as the film moved along. By the end she was practically imitating Feldon's tone with the same endearing tone.
Re Paluzzi, her Uncle femme fatale was practically a template for Fiona Volpe.
I thinks its a good bet Terrence Young and company liked what they saw in Uncle. They probably saw the cinema version of her character, in which her role was enhanced, with much extra footage not seen on TV.
Paluzzi also appeared in The Girl From Uncle after she did Thunderball.
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An underappreciated Smart gem, I think is the 7 episode Get Smart 94 series.
The show takes a lot of flack, but I do love The Elaine Hendrix agent character.
She's sassy sexy and funny, and Feldon and Adams are both in good form.
She wasn't actually in the pilot. It's complicated, but they combined another episode with the pilot for the feature film, To Trap a Spy to make it long enough for feature release.
The episode she was in, shown later in the season, was called The Four-Steps Affair, so it's easy to see where the confusion would happen.
But wasn't there a colour pilot that she was not in, and later a b&w episode that she was in.
Wasn't the film pretty much the pilot, but with the fully fleshed out Paluzzi sidebar footage added?