Disney Is Reviving The 'Inspector Gadget' Franchise

Get ready to Go-Go Gadget again! Disney is reviving the ‘Inspector Gadget’ live-action franchise, with Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, who produced the recent ‘Aladdin’ remake, via their Rideback banner. ‘Saturday Night Live’s Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell have been hired to pen the script. The ‘Aladdin’ reboot made over $1 billion at the box office. Day and Seidell are also writing the remake of ‘Home Alone’ for Disney+. The first ‘Inspector Gadget’ was released in 1999 and was a moderate success, grossing $134.4 million against its $90 million budget. That film was directed by music video-helmer David Kellogg, whose only other movie was ‘Cool as Ice’ starring Vanilla Ice. He never directed another film, but he did direct a BUNCH of ‘Playboy’ videos, so there’s that. Matthew Broderick portrayed Inspector Gadget, a police officer who is reborn as a bumbling cyborg crime-fighter. Rupert Everett played his arch-nemesis Doctor Claw, with Michelle Trachtenberg as Gadget’s niece Penny. Don Adams, the star of the ’60s spy comedy ‘Get Smart’, who also voiced the cartoon version of Inspector Gadget, provided the voice of Brain the dog. Dabney Coleman appeared as Chief Quimby, Gadget’s boss. Even though the film wasn’t a huge hit, […]