I'm old but not old enough to recognize that show, are they hoping for a huge audience of geriatrics?

Just cast Ducky.

Not sure what Cooper's problem is. I mean, it's Steven farking Soderbergh. You have a chance to be in one of his last films as a director, I say take it.

The script must be CRAP for these guys to turn it down. Unlike a lot of TV show adaptations an U.N.C.L.E. movie is timely. a United Network for Criminal Law Enforcement team battling terrorists and Al Queda would make a lot more sense then sending the marines in all the time.
The TV show was terrific a movie COULD be terrific. Since no one wants to play Napoleon Solo, one of the most suave and intelligent spies ever, the script must be dreadful!

Delawheredad: The script must be CRAP for these guys to turn it down. Unlike a lot of TV show adaptations an U.N.C.L.E. movie is timely. a United Network for Criminal Law Enforcement team battling terrorists and Al Queda would make a lot more sense then sending the marines in all the time.
The TV show was terrific a movie COULD be terrific. Since no one wants to play Napoleon Solo, one of the most suave and intelligent spies ever, the script must be dreadful!

What about a Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity?

PizzaJedi81

Nothing wrong with that but there a multi-pronged attack makes more sense. Some guys are in the trenches and some guys are wearing tailored suits tracking down terrorist money laundering operations.
Not every grunt is cut out for a job in the C.I.A..

danny_kay: In other news, yesterday I spent nearly an hour in a state of perma-squee while watching episode "The Project Strigas Affair".

Guess who's in it :-)

Had to look it up, but holy hell. Shatner, Nimoy, and Werner Klemperer in the same freakin' ep? How did you survive?

If this movie isn't set in the 60's I don't want to see it.

/had the UNCLE gun and briefcase as a kid.

bighasbeen: He and Matthew McConaughay should be in a movie where all they do is smirk at each other for 90 minutes over drinks and talk about girls. Then, the buttfarking...

I'd watch that movie. Or at least the last part of it.

texdent: What about Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate?

That's quite a mouthful.

i call him cradley booper

TravisBickle62: I'm old but not old enough to recognize that show, are they hoping for a huge audience of geriatrics?

My mother, who just turned 62, watched it, and had a crush on David McCallum.

I think the show was sort of a James Bond spoof, but not as silly as Get Smart.

Dwight_Yeast: Just cast Ducky.

Can I just say I was shocked when I looked up the original Man from U.N.C.L.E. on IMDb and saw Ducky? Actually I saw a Russian-looking blond, thought his name looked familiar, and *then* saw Ducky. Wild.

KJUW89: Dwight_Yeast: Just cast Ducky.

Can I just say I was shocked when I looked up the original Man from U.N.C.L.E. on IMDb and saw Ducky? Actually I saw a Russian-looking blond, thought his name looked familiar, and *then* saw Ducky. Wild.

On one episode of NCIS, when Ducky was asked what he looked like when he was younger, his response was "Ilya Kuryakin." I chortled mightily, I don't mind telling you!

Mugato: Isn't The Man from UNCLE just a precursor to Mission: Impossible? It would be cool as a period piece though, at least it would be different. Well, different is a strong word. Unexpected, I suppose.

No, really quite different.

Mission Impossible was basically a show about deceptions. The team would use disguises, con tricks, sleight of hand and so forth to achieve a mission. In fact, what's wrong with the movies is that this was mostly lost: they just became generic action movies. The Soderbergh Ocean's 11 movie is more like what Mission: Impossible should have been.

Man from UNCLE was a generic TV spy series. The best thing you could say about it was the casting. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum are still best known for Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin decades later.

farkeruk: Mugato: Isn't The Man from UNCLE just a precursor to Mission: Impossible? It would be cool as a period piece though, at least it would be different. Well, different is a strong word. Unexpected, I suppose.

No, really quite different.

Mission Impossible was basically a show about deceptions. The team would use disguises, con tricks, sleight of hand and so forth to achieve a mission. In fact, what's wrong with the movies is that this was mostly lost: they just became generic action movies. The Soderbergh Ocean's 11 movie is more like what Mission: Impossible should have been.

Man from UNCLE was a generic TV spy series. The best thing you could say about it was the casting. Robert Vaughn and David McCallum are still best known for Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin decades later.

Actually, I watched the Man from UNCLE boxed set (don't judge), and someone on it described the Project Strigas Affair as a proto-"Mission Impossible" ep.