Ron Howard to direct live-action Spy vs. Spy movie The Daily Cartoonist

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Posted by Alan Gardner
June 23, 2011

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.

#1	August J. Pollak June/23/2011 @ 6:55 am	No. Dear god, no. Just…. why? No.
#2	Ben Carlsen June/23/2011 @ 7:48 am	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.
#3	Kat Ruhl June/23/2011 @ 10:39 am	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.
#4	Shane Davis June/23/2011 @ 11:24 am	Why am I thinking of that Mario Bros. movie right now? Could the stench be the coming from the same type of moronic thinking?
#5	Gerry Mooney June/23/2011 @ 3:43 pm	I’ve already started making big plans to miss this one entirely.
#6	Mark Stokes June/26/2011 @ 12:59 pm	Can’t we just let Antonio Prohias’ lines on paper speak for themselves?

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