EXCLUSIVE: Speak about a useless ringer with regards to casting: We’re getting phrase that 4x Emmy winner John Mulaney is eyeing to star in Warner Bros’ upcoming reimagining of Get Good as wisenheimer agent Maxwell Good.
The mission is early within the works with Now You See Me: Now You Don’t scribe Seth Grahame-Smith penning the screenplay. Chuck Rovan and Andrew Lazar are producing.
The spy comedy TV collection Get Good was initially created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry and ran from 1965-1970 for 138 episodes. The primary 4 seasons aired on NBC, whereas the ultimate season was proven on CBS. Get Good was a spoof of the James Bond movies. Don Adams starred as bumbling know-it-all agent Maxwell Good (Agent 86) reverse Barbara Feldon (Agent 99) and Edward Platt who performed the Chief. They work for a secret U.S. authorities counterintelligence company referred to as Management, which was in a relentless battle with evil org, Kaos. Whereas Good all the time has the higher hand over Kaos, he was usually incompetent. The collection gained seven Emmys together with two for Excellent Comedy Collection.
The opening sequence was a basic exhibiting Adams’ Good strolling by way of a ridiculous quantity of locked barricades earlier than arriving at a telephone sales space, during which he picked up the telephone, dialed a quantity, earlier than dropping into headquarters. The collection was adopted by a 1980 function movie, The Nude Bomb, which was made with out Brooks and Henry in addition to the 1989 made-for-TV sequel to the collection, Get Good, Once more! which starred Adams and Feldon. For a beat there was a 1995 revival collection that aired on Fox for seven episodes from Jan. 8 to Feb. 19, 1995 which starred Adams, Feldon, Andy Dick, Heather Morgan, and Elaine Hendrix. Then there was a 2008 function movie adaptation from Warner Bros., produced by Roven and Lazar, and starring Steve Carell as Good, Anne Hathaway as Agent 99, Alan Arkin because the Chief, and Dwayne Johnson as Agent 23. The pic was programmed as a summer time tentpole and opened to $38.6M stateside and made $130.3M home, and $230.6M worldwide.
Mulaney can also be a Critics’ Alternative Award, and WGA Award-winning author, comic, and actor.
This summer time, the stand-up bought out the long-lasting Wrigley Subject on July 11, changing into the primary comic ever to headline the ballpark.
Mulaney simply introduced Mulaney Takes Manhattan, a particular nine-show New York Metropolis run that takes him to 9 iconic venues over 9 nights, from Comedy Cellar and Blue Notice to Carnegie Corridor and Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, culminating in a finale at Madison Sq. Backyard, working Jan. 7-15, 2027. These reveals are a part of Mulaney’s newest stand-up tour, John Mulaney: Mister No matter.
He has hosted Saturday Night time Stay six occasions, will subsequent seem within the Amazon MGM Studios upcoming fall David O. Russell function Madden starring Nicolas Cage because the famed soccer coach and NFL commentator.
Mulaney gained Emmys for 2025 Excellent Writing for a Selection Particular (SNL: fiftieth Anniversary), 2023 Excellent Writing for a Selection Particular (John Mulaney: Child J), 2018 Excellent Writing for a Selection Particular (John Mulaney: Child Attractive at Radio Metropolis Corridor) and 2011 Excellent Authentic Music and Lyrics (SNL).
Grahame-Smith is repped by WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole. He has a narrative credit score on the Warner Bros’ hit Beetlejuice Beetlejuice which amassed greater than $452M WW. He wrote Now You See Me: Now You Don’t which grossed closed to $247M on the world field workplace along with The Lego Batman Film which minted over $312M WW.
Mulaney is repped by WME and Shreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.
