Smart Spinoff Heads To DVD
Get Smart director Peter Segal told SCI FI Wire that a spinoff movie will head straight to DVD around the time of the movie's June release, featuring the secondary characters of Bruce (Heroes' Masi Oka) and Lloyd (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Nate Torrence). The spinoff is titled Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control.
"Warner Brothers really responded to those two characters, but it's also a new idea that Warner Brothers is trying to do, and we are sort of the maiden voyage of that," Segal said in a group interview at WonderCon in San Francisco last weekend. "Two movies, one coming out in the theater and one on DVD, within a short span of time. But, yeah, it's very flattering that they responded to these characters, and Masi and Nate are great in the movie, and they're very funny in the other movie, too."
The spinoff, which extends the adventures of the two characters, who appear briefly in the theatrical movie, is designed to drop within two weeks of Get Smart's June 20 opening in theaters. Segal didn't direct the spinoff, which was shot simultaneously with the feature film, nor does star Steve Carell appear in it. --Patrick Lee, News Editor
Now that's a new concept. Prepare a spinoff direct to DVD release for when a new movie comes out. Not a bad idea.
Just watched the movie. Very funny - especially the anti-follicular device :D