Ron Howard to direct live-action Spy vs. Spy movie

Alan Gardner Published: June 23, 2011 at 6:48 am EDT 1 minute 6 comments

Ron Howard is rumored to be direct a live-action movie adaptation of MAD Magazine’s Spy vs. Spy. According to Deadline.com reports that the “film will be a physical and highly visual action comedy with two spies going mano a mano in ruthless fashion.” No date has given. Other names attached to the project include David Koepp as the producer and the writing by John Kamps.

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August J. Pollak

No. Dear god, no.

Just…. why?

No.

Jun 23,2011
Ben Carlsen

What a challenge it must be to take a comic strip with an extremely simple premise (two spies that blow each other up) and turn it into a movie with a plot more complex than just two spies blowing each other up. If done well, it could be quite funny, I think. Don’t know if it can be, though, because… well… look what you have to work with.

I’ll be keeping my eye on it either way. It might be interesting.

Jun 23,2011
Kat Ruhl

Hmmm…so often things with very simple premises get turned into pretty terrible movies but I do think it’s possible for something like this to be done right so…we’ll see, we’ll see. Not going to hold my breath though.

Jun 23,2011
Shane Davis

Why am I thinking of that Mario Bros. movie right now? Could the stench be the coming from the same type of moronic thinking?

Jun 23,2011
Gerry Mooney

I’ve already started making big plans to miss this one entirely.

Jun 23,2011
Mark Stokes

Can’t we just let Antonio Prohias’ lines on paper speak for themselves?

Jun 26,2011

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