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Agent One-Half

The Acting News section of the Warwick Davis Official Website has the original version of the teaser poster.

Agent One-Half
To be released in 2008(?)
Produced by Brian Bero and Warwick Davis
Screenplay by Paul Lewis, based on a story by Brian Bero and Warwick Davis
Starring Warwick Davis, David Steinberg, Arturo Gil

Check out the official site, the listing on Brian Bero's webpage, and the IMDb listing.

Now here's an exciting project! Once again Warwick will play the title role in a movie; in this film he'll be Agent One Half, part of America's smallest secret agent team. But the starring role is just part of his involvement in this comedy spy film; he's also the co-producer and co-writer of the story. To make things even more exciting, the movie will reunite him onscreen with Willow co-star David Steinberg. Val Kilmer was originally slated to appear too, but according to NotStarring.com he had to drop out due to sustained production delays.

SciFi Wire has an interview that giving the most detailed plot description we've had to date. It says:

Davis described Agent One-Half as a "James Bond sort of story." The basic concept is that spies typically appear to be suave and sophisticated, but they're not really the heroes. "The heroes are these four agents who are hidden under the roulette table, hidden behind the potted plant," Davis said. "They're the ones doing all the work while these other guys take the credit. All their code names are fractions. So my name would be One-Half and then there's Seven-Eighths and Two-Thirds, etc."

He added, "The story goes that this agent who is called Lance Stone is retiring and we have to bring in another agent to train up. It happens that the guy is the goofiest guy you could imagine, who's got in somehow, and the story follows the comedy between me having to train him up and then him becoming the unlikely hero. The arch-villain is also short. He's actually shorter than me. So it's a lot of fun. It doesn't take itself too seriously, but what I like is that children love the Bond films, love to relate to these spy characters, love to emulate their heroes. But it can be a little bit difficult because the heroes are tall and big. Well, they'd be able to relate perfectly to a character on their own level. So I'm interested to see how that will work from an audience perspective, in having kids watch it."

With this movie, a concept that's been ripening for quite some time has finally reached its maturity. A number of articles and interviews have mentioned the Spymaster concept that Warwick was developing, possibly as a TV series. A 2000 IGN for Men interview quoted Warwick as saying this about the project:

"Spy Master is something that I've written myself and it's barely only a treatment at the moment, it's not a full script. And it's just something that I started 10-15 years ago...actually it was just after the time of Willow, so about 12-years ago. It's one of those ideas that you kind of kick about and eventually somebody will hopefully pick it up and say 'Yeah, let's have a go at this.' So I'm just waiting for that to happen at the moment."

In a November 2001 Onion A.V. Club interview, Warwick said this:

"I've written a treatment, an idea, for something called Spymaster, which I've been throwing about for years. Myself and David Steinberg, who was in Willow - he played Meegosh - we came up with this idea while we were doing Willow, because we both said, "Wouldn't it be great if we could just do something where we didn't have to have all these wigs and weird costumes, where we could just wear jeans and T-shirts?" So we came up with this idea. And I've been putting it about to people in the business for the longest time, and just last week, some sort of interest has started to emerge from America, and also in this country. It remains to be seen whether that interest is going to be something that will develop into a series. We'll see."

A March 2003 Celluloid Shockers interview quoted Warwick as saying:

"I'm also developing a film called 'Agent One-Half', of course starring me. It's a comedy about a government agency that consists entirely of short people doing undercover spy, James Bond, type work. The basis is that these are the guys behind James Bond but are the ones you never see, leaving people like Bond to take all the credit despite the fact that we do all the work. It's going very well in development at the moment, a lot of interest from big studios and fingers crossed it will become a movie event for next year."

Does that sound like fun or what? It's wonderful that this project is finally going to become a reality!