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Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World

5/6/11 - Ricky Gervais has signed on to voice a robot spy dog, Argonaut, in Dimension Films' upcoming Spy Kids: All the Time in the World.  The funnyman joins Jessica Alba (Marissa Cortez Wilson), Jeremy Piven (Timekeeper), Antonio Banderas (Gergorio Cortez) and Joel McHale (WIlbur Wilson) for the franchise's fourth installment.  The Robert Rodriguez 3D film is slated for an Aug. 19 release.

8/24/10 - Jessica Alba is in negotiations to star in Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The Dimension movie is a reboot of sorts for the moneymaking franchise, which initially starred Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara as the kids of superspy parents (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino). Rodriguez wrote and directed each installment.  Vega and Sabara are no longer kids.  The new movie centers on Alba as a retired spy who has been reactivated. The actress will be playing the mother of a baby and two preteen stepchildren.  The actors cast in the preteen roles will be the new Spy Kids.  Other roles seeking to be filled include Alba's husband, a slightly nerdy investigative reporter, and the villain, known as the Time Keeper, whose goal it is to stop time.  It is expected that Banderas, Vega and Sabara will return in supporting roles.  The picture will be in 3D.

3/15/10 – SCIFI Wire reported that director Robert Rodriguez is going to reboot his own hit Spy Kids franchise.  Rodriguez said that the fourth Spy Kids movie would be "like the Casino Royale to For Your Eyes Only. The other movies were the For Your Eyes Onlys. I love For Your Eyes Only, the Roger Moore James Bonds. This is the Casino Royale."  In the original Spy Kids movies, Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara played siblings, the children of Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino, who battled mythological creatures and went into a video game for part three (the first film to bring back 3-D to mainstream motion pictures, BTW). In the proposed fourth installment, expect less green screen and CGI from the new film.  "It's going to be more like the first ones," Rodriguez said. "It'd be very practical, very realistic."  Rodriguez added that he just turned in a script to The Weinstein Company. The film will reboot the franchise with a new group of kids.

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