Ron Howard Takes Mad Magazine’s SPY VS. SPY To The Big Screen


The black spy and white spy of Spy vs. Spy really take “Anything you can do, I can do better” to heart. Spy vs. Spy began as a black and white comic strip in Mad Magazine in 1961 and over the years has become an animated cartoon on MadTV, a Sunday strip, a board game, and has even inspired several video games.

According to Deadline, Spy vs. Spy is now headed to the big screen with Warner Bros and Ron Howard directing. The adaptation is described to be “a physical and highly visual action comedy with two spies going mano a mano in ruthless fashion.”

The script will be penned by John Kamps (Premium Rush, Ghost Town). David Koepp along with Howard and his Imagine Entertainment partner Brian Grazer will produce.

The Spy Vs. Spy comic strip was created by Antonio Prohías a Cuban political cartoonist, that used the strip to comment on the Castro regime and the CIA.

A release date for Spy Vs. Spy has not been announced.

 


Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
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