It was a pleasure collaborating with Bryan Barber and OutKast in 2002, and I knew then that their talents would translate across all creative mediums. I am thrilled we at Mosaic were given the opportunity to work with them again and to help make this project a reality,

For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.

We're getting the script together, and there will be some of the usual characters: a Chief, 99, CONTROL and KAOS, ... The script has to be there before we want to make it, but Steve will make it funny.

Steve will take the part of Maxwell Smart to a whole new level, ... He will not be as bumbling, and it will be in a contemporary setting.

The point is that the studio owns the franchise, and they can do without any of us,

That movie, for all of the tragedy of what happened during the making of it, clearly shows that whatever anybody can say about Terry and his passion for making movies that sometimes makes his movies more difficult to make, you can't control the weather and you can't control the fact that a guy came to his set with a prostate problem and never should have gotten on a horse.