James Gunn seemed to reach the top of the Nerd Mountains, becoming co -chair of the DC Studios (with Peter Safran) in 2022. Almost 30 years before, he was just another fighting screenwriter who slipped it into the film industry trenches. Gunn earned his first scenario credit As co -author of the troma entertainment “Tromeo and Juliet” who were not Calling-Card’s efforts that made him Hollywood radar. It would be his scenario’s superhero comedy “The Specials”, which in 2000 became a movie Craig’s leading in the lead.
However, before making this film, Gunns came to projects in major studies, one of which was the silver surfer movie 20th Century Fox. Gunn knocked out treatment, which he said was “a huge story, cosmic like hell”, and he might have been hanging around to write a scenario if there was no other project on his threshold.
1999 filmmaker Jay Roch, with a high trip thanks Movies “Austin Powers” moviesAnd producer Sikena Robertsone approached Gunna for writing a scenario based on Mad Mad magazine “Spy vs. Spy” Sabotage Happy Operations. Antonio Prohía’s comic was two with a cone face agents, one was dressed in black, the other-white, which shattered each other using Rube Goldberg-esque traps. It was one of the consistently smartest features of Mad, but it was a terribly short storyline and thus not a kind of cartoon that easily ordered the adaptation of the feature film.
Gunn figured out that “Spy vs. Spy” had a greater chance of getting green (because Fox was waiting for the 2000 “X-Men” release to determine the strategy of its comic film ahead), so he went out of silver surfer films and took on Spy vs Spy. In conclusion, the latter was almost made with two very talented and popular actors in nominal roles.
Jim Kerry and Damon Wayne almost played sworn enemy spies
When Warner bros 2020 announced it It was hired by Rawson Marshall Thurber (“DodgeBall: A true insufficient story”) To write and manage “Spy against Spy”, Gunn went to Twitter to briefly remember the time he spent the project more than 20 years earlier. He discovered (since then deleted) that he wrote his scenario, keeping in mind Nicholas Cage and Eddie Murphy, and that there was a long scene among the wildest bits of the film, where Spys caught their brains a car that turned them into a cat’s important part of the film.
“Minions” screenwriter Brian Linch reminded that Jim Kerry and Diamon Wayne was apparently mounted on the star in the Roch film at one point, but eventually it was collapsed. Roach continued to move forward “to meet parents”, and Gunn was hired to rewrite Craig Titley’s scenario “Scooby-Doo”. The “spy against the spy” remained inactive until 2011, when Ron Howard played with John Camps’s scenario from the adaptation of the function (“Zathura”). This attempt was also missing, and since it has been the silence of the radio since we received an update on the Thurbur movie, it is probably safe to assume that this version is dead too.
The “spy on the spy” is such a simple, ingenious concept (making it even more effective after the lack of dialogue) that I can only imagine Hollywood squeezing it. Maybe this project is better dead.
