Disney has set in motion a new Inspector Gadget live-action film, which is being produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, the producers of the live-action Aladdin released earlier this year. Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell have been tapped to adapt the script based on the famous dense cyborg police inspector, who was first introduced to audiences in the 1980s animated series.
Matthew Broderick played the character in the 1999 David Kellogg-directed live-action adaptation which was met with negative reviews and performed moderately at the box office with a take of almost $135 million worldwide. A direct-to-dvd sequel followed in 2003.
This project adds to Disney’s growing slate of forthcoming live-action versions of aminated films including Lady and the Tramp, Mulan, Cruella, Little Mermaid, and Lilo & Stitch.
THR was first to break Inspector Gadget news.
Matthew Broderick played the character in the 1999 David Kellogg-directed live-action adaptation which was met with negative reviews and performed moderately at the box office with a take of almost $135 million worldwide. A direct-to-dvd sequel followed in 2003.
This project adds to Disney’s growing slate of forthcoming live-action versions of aminated films including Lady and the Tramp, Mulan, Cruella, Little Mermaid, and Lilo & Stitch.
THR was first to break Inspector Gadget news.
- 10/4/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Simon Brew Aug 15, 2017
There's an end credits gag in Inspector Gadget that's up there with much of what Marvel offers you once the film's over...
Lots of people don’t like the Inspector Gadget movie. Released in 1999, Disney certainly had high hopes for it, earmarking it as a key blockbuster for that year. Tellingly, though, Rupert Everett would not inaccurately describe the film as “the $100m mess” in his memoir, Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins.
He went further. Talking about the elongated days of shooting on the movie, he wrote that “behind the scenes lurked a panel of executives, each with their own theory and agenda. A string of writers had written version after version, each adding to our scripts on a different-coloured paper, each one losing the plot a little bit more, so that by the end, or rather the beginning, they had managed between them to render...
There's an end credits gag in Inspector Gadget that's up there with much of what Marvel offers you once the film's over...
Lots of people don’t like the Inspector Gadget movie. Released in 1999, Disney certainly had high hopes for it, earmarking it as a key blockbuster for that year. Tellingly, though, Rupert Everett would not inaccurately describe the film as “the $100m mess” in his memoir, Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins.
He went further. Talking about the elongated days of shooting on the movie, he wrote that “behind the scenes lurked a panel of executives, each with their own theory and agenda. A string of writers had written version after version, each adding to our scripts on a different-coloured paper, each one losing the plot a little bit more, so that by the end, or rather the beginning, they had managed between them to render...
- 8/14/2017
- Den of Geek
Earlier this month, when Vanilla Ice announced via Twitter that he was boldly defying instructions to evacuate his Florida home in the face of Hurricane Matthew, it not only inspired what had to be the greatest (and possibly also the most depressing) tweet ever made by the Florida Democratic Party, but it also made one hope that it might really be a sneaky promo for an upcoming Weather Channel series wherein the rapper and reality TV star goes head to head with natural disasters.
Alas, "The Ice Storm" (or whatever...
Alas, "The Ice Storm" (or whatever...
- 10/18/2016
- Rollingstone.com
In the playground of entertainment, it’s easy to see Hollywood as the school bully; grabbing video games, cartoons and even board games by their heels and shaking them ’til all their money falls out. While we generally turn a blind eye to the board game bashing, it is the cartoons that we cherish the most. For wrapped inside their theme songs, catchphrases and collectable action figures is a still-beating sense of nostalgia. And no matter how many hundreds of millions of dollars Hollywood can throw into trying to recreate it, it is a commodity that ultimately proves priceless.
Many an animation has stretched itself into a feature-length episode or TV special. Some have even enjoyed commercial success with spin-offs and cinema releases. But, as we’ll see, nothing kills a cartoon quite like the words ‘live-action adaptation’. Except, of course, the words ‘live-action adaptation- in 3D’. Listed below are...
Many an animation has stretched itself into a feature-length episode or TV special. Some have even enjoyed commercial success with spin-offs and cinema releases. But, as we’ll see, nothing kills a cartoon quite like the words ‘live-action adaptation’. Except, of course, the words ‘live-action adaptation- in 3D’. Listed below are...
- 7/9/2013
- by Dan Wakefield
- Obsessed with Film
Cool As Ice
Stars: Robert Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), Kristin Minter, John Haymes Newton, Candy Clark, Michael Gross | Written by David Stenn | Directed by David Kellogg
Alright stop, read this review and listen. Vanilla Ice is back, with a brand new DVD edition – of his one an only star vehicle Cool As Ice that is… Fresh off the back of Ice’s collaboration with Jedward and his appearance at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, Second Sight have released his epic 1991 movie on DVD for the very first time.
Cool As Ice sees bad boy rapper and biker Johnny (Vanilla Ice) ride into a small midwestern town and fall head over heels in love with sweet natured Catherine (Minter). However, like all good romances, their courtship is a rocky one. It transpires that Catherine’s parents, unbeknownst to her, are in the witness protection programme, and the criminals they put...
Stars: Robert Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), Kristin Minter, John Haymes Newton, Candy Clark, Michael Gross | Written by David Stenn | Directed by David Kellogg
Alright stop, read this review and listen. Vanilla Ice is back, with a brand new DVD edition – of his one an only star vehicle Cool As Ice that is… Fresh off the back of Ice’s collaboration with Jedward and his appearance at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, Second Sight have released his epic 1991 movie on DVD for the very first time.
Cool As Ice sees bad boy rapper and biker Johnny (Vanilla Ice) ride into a small midwestern town and fall head over heels in love with sweet natured Catherine (Minter). However, like all good romances, their courtship is a rocky one. It transpires that Catherine’s parents, unbeknownst to her, are in the witness protection programme, and the criminals they put...
- 9/8/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
I attempted a lengthy explanation to describe the point I'm trying to make with the examples below, but my own circular logic eventually short-circuited my brain and I deleted it. So, draw your own conclusions based on the evidence below. The person who explains the point I'm trying to make the best gets cake. I'm not even kidding. I will bake you a goddamn cake and send it to your house. That's how much this means to me. And I make a mean motherfucking cake, people.
This is officially a Pajiba Contest.
Screenwriters in bold. Directors in parenthesis. Use the headline as a guide. It may also be helpful to know that William Goldman seems to be the exception to the rule I'm trying to demonstrate.
Guinevere Turner
Best Movie: American Pyscho (Mary Harron)
Worst Movie: Bloodrayne (Uwe Boll)
Ted Tally
Best Movie: Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
Worst...
This is officially a Pajiba Contest.
Screenwriters in bold. Directors in parenthesis. Use the headline as a guide. It may also be helpful to know that William Goldman seems to be the exception to the rule I'm trying to demonstrate.
Guinevere Turner
Best Movie: American Pyscho (Mary Harron)
Worst Movie: Bloodrayne (Uwe Boll)
Ted Tally
Best Movie: Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
Worst...
- 6/21/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
"Go Go Good Screenplay!" "Go Go Good Direction!" Rats, nothing happened.
Except for some young and undemanding moviegoers willing to overlook its abundant flaws, Disney's new family comedy "Inspector Gadget" won't have much success past a few decent weeks at the boxoffice, though it might go go far as a video release.
On initial inspection, "Gadget" -- a cross between "Get Smart" and "The Pink Panther", with lots of standard sci-fi, special effects-created stuff thrown in -- is too scattershot in its approach, too derivative in its story elements and characters (the snobbish villain straight out of a Bond or Austin Powers movie has a cat) and has just too clunky a superhero to catch on in any significant way with audiences.
It's also another wild swing in the career of star Matthew Broderick, who got great notices for "Election" this year after surviving the "Godzilla" backlash last year. Playing a dual role, the good-hearted lead and his evil incarnation RoboGadget, Broderick is well cast. But the screenplay credited to Kerry Ehrin and Zak Penn -- from Ehrin and Dana Olsen's story -- is an ungainly concoction of robocliches and unfunny supporting characters, while hot actor Rupert Everett is barely lukewarm as the diabolical villain.
Based on the 1980s cartoon created by Andy Heyward, Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi, which was produced by French animation company DIC, "Gadget" is the feature debut of commercial director David Kellogg and boasts a few kooky special effects scenes with the endless array of devices implanted in the title character -- and his super-duper Gadgetmobile (voiced by D.L. Hughley), a Lincoln convertible with a funky mind of its own.
The film opens with security guard John Brown (Broderick), who lives with his niece Penny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and dreams of being a heroic cop, though he's been turned down by the police academy. One night at his job guarding a robotics research facility, however, he tries to thwart the elaborate robbery attempt of Sanford Scolex (Everett) and is seriously injured.
With the blessing of Pittsburgh-like Riverton City's obnoxious mayor (Cheri Oteri) and the official support of the police chief (Dabney Coleman), scientist Brenda Bradford (Joely Fisher) is allowed to finish the work of her murdered father (Rene Auberjonois) and transform Brown into the "future of law enforcement." From his hands and arms now come countless utensils and torrents of toothpaste, and his head sprouts helicopter blades when he says "Go go (device)."
Brown's transformation into Inspector Gadget leads to many frustrating, faintly amusing sequences where the walking hardware store loses control of his new endowments. He also has a crush on Brenda, and grows jealous the first time she's approached by Everett's evil mastermind. The romance is thankfully downplayed, but the same can't be said for the overall corny humor and hit-or-miss visual gags that never stop coming.
While Inspector Gadget is put in charge of rescuing cats with his extending arms, his nemesis creates a devilish twin (with Broderick having fun with facial ticks and looking cool in heavy makeup and film noir bad-guy attire).
When the bad superhero unleashes deadly gadgetry on the city and Brenda is faced with her scarily ditzy roboself, "Gadget" winds up for a round of unoriginal thrills, including take-offs of "Mission: Impossible", "Godzilla" and "Mary Poppins".
Andy Dick and Michael G. Hagerty manage to have a few memorable moments in the thankless roles of the henchmen, with the latter getting the biggest laugh in an end-credits scene. Stan Winston's animatronic creations and supervisor Richard Hoover's visual effects are spiffy but not enough to salvage this marginally entertaining project.
INSPECTOR GADGET
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Walt Disney Pictures presents
in association with Caravan Pictures
an Avnet Kerner/Roger Birnbaum/DIC production
Director:David Kellogg
Screenwriters:Kerry Ehrin, Zak Penn
Story by:Dana Olsen, Kerry Ehrin
Based on characters created by:Andy Heyward, Jean Chalopin, Bruno Bianchi
Producers:Jordan Kerner, Roger Birnbaum, Andy Heyward
Executive producers:Jon Avnet, Barry Bernardi, Aaron Meyerson, Jonathan Glickman, Ralph Winter
Director of photography:Adam Greenberg
Production designers:Michael White, Leslie Dilley
Editors:Thom Noble, Alan Cody
Costume designer:Mary Vogt
Special animatronic effects:Stan Winston
Visual effects supervisor:Richard Hoover
Music:John Debney
Casting:Amanda Mackey Johnson, Cathy Sandrich
Color/stereo
Cast:
Inspector Gadget/RoboGadget/John Brown:Matthew Broderick
Sanford Scolex:Rupert Everett
Brenda/RoboBrenda:Joely Fisher
Penny:Michelle Trachtenberg
Kramer:Andy Dick
Mayor Wilson:Cheri Oteri
Sikes:Michael G. Hagerty
Chief Quimby:Dabney Coleman
Gadgetmobile Voice:D.L. Hughley
Artemus Bradford:Rene Auberjonois
Running time -- 78 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
Except for some young and undemanding moviegoers willing to overlook its abundant flaws, Disney's new family comedy "Inspector Gadget" won't have much success past a few decent weeks at the boxoffice, though it might go go far as a video release.
On initial inspection, "Gadget" -- a cross between "Get Smart" and "The Pink Panther", with lots of standard sci-fi, special effects-created stuff thrown in -- is too scattershot in its approach, too derivative in its story elements and characters (the snobbish villain straight out of a Bond or Austin Powers movie has a cat) and has just too clunky a superhero to catch on in any significant way with audiences.
It's also another wild swing in the career of star Matthew Broderick, who got great notices for "Election" this year after surviving the "Godzilla" backlash last year. Playing a dual role, the good-hearted lead and his evil incarnation RoboGadget, Broderick is well cast. But the screenplay credited to Kerry Ehrin and Zak Penn -- from Ehrin and Dana Olsen's story -- is an ungainly concoction of robocliches and unfunny supporting characters, while hot actor Rupert Everett is barely lukewarm as the diabolical villain.
Based on the 1980s cartoon created by Andy Heyward, Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi, which was produced by French animation company DIC, "Gadget" is the feature debut of commercial director David Kellogg and boasts a few kooky special effects scenes with the endless array of devices implanted in the title character -- and his super-duper Gadgetmobile (voiced by D.L. Hughley), a Lincoln convertible with a funky mind of its own.
The film opens with security guard John Brown (Broderick), who lives with his niece Penny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and dreams of being a heroic cop, though he's been turned down by the police academy. One night at his job guarding a robotics research facility, however, he tries to thwart the elaborate robbery attempt of Sanford Scolex (Everett) and is seriously injured.
With the blessing of Pittsburgh-like Riverton City's obnoxious mayor (Cheri Oteri) and the official support of the police chief (Dabney Coleman), scientist Brenda Bradford (Joely Fisher) is allowed to finish the work of her murdered father (Rene Auberjonois) and transform Brown into the "future of law enforcement." From his hands and arms now come countless utensils and torrents of toothpaste, and his head sprouts helicopter blades when he says "Go go (device)."
Brown's transformation into Inspector Gadget leads to many frustrating, faintly amusing sequences where the walking hardware store loses control of his new endowments. He also has a crush on Brenda, and grows jealous the first time she's approached by Everett's evil mastermind. The romance is thankfully downplayed, but the same can't be said for the overall corny humor and hit-or-miss visual gags that never stop coming.
While Inspector Gadget is put in charge of rescuing cats with his extending arms, his nemesis creates a devilish twin (with Broderick having fun with facial ticks and looking cool in heavy makeup and film noir bad-guy attire).
When the bad superhero unleashes deadly gadgetry on the city and Brenda is faced with her scarily ditzy roboself, "Gadget" winds up for a round of unoriginal thrills, including take-offs of "Mission: Impossible", "Godzilla" and "Mary Poppins".
Andy Dick and Michael G. Hagerty manage to have a few memorable moments in the thankless roles of the henchmen, with the latter getting the biggest laugh in an end-credits scene. Stan Winston's animatronic creations and supervisor Richard Hoover's visual effects are spiffy but not enough to salvage this marginally entertaining project.
INSPECTOR GADGET
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Walt Disney Pictures presents
in association with Caravan Pictures
an Avnet Kerner/Roger Birnbaum/DIC production
Director:David Kellogg
Screenwriters:Kerry Ehrin, Zak Penn
Story by:Dana Olsen, Kerry Ehrin
Based on characters created by:Andy Heyward, Jean Chalopin, Bruno Bianchi
Producers:Jordan Kerner, Roger Birnbaum, Andy Heyward
Executive producers:Jon Avnet, Barry Bernardi, Aaron Meyerson, Jonathan Glickman, Ralph Winter
Director of photography:Adam Greenberg
Production designers:Michael White, Leslie Dilley
Editors:Thom Noble, Alan Cody
Costume designer:Mary Vogt
Special animatronic effects:Stan Winston
Visual effects supervisor:Richard Hoover
Music:John Debney
Casting:Amanda Mackey Johnson, Cathy Sandrich
Color/stereo
Cast:
Inspector Gadget/RoboGadget/John Brown:Matthew Broderick
Sanford Scolex:Rupert Everett
Brenda/RoboBrenda:Joely Fisher
Penny:Michelle Trachtenberg
Kramer:Andy Dick
Mayor Wilson:Cheri Oteri
Sikes:Michael G. Hagerty
Chief Quimby:Dabney Coleman
Gadgetmobile Voice:D.L. Hughley
Artemus Bradford:Rene Auberjonois
Running time -- 78 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 7/23/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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