Hollywood Gives Into Typecasting For “Three Stooges” Movie
MGM gets its ‘Stooges’
Penn, Carrey, Del Toro part of studio’s plan
By MICHAEL FLEMING
MGM and the Farrelly brothers are closing in on their cast for “The Three Stooges.”
Studio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, and negotiations are underway with Jim Carrey to play Curly, with the actor already making plans to gain 40 pounds to approximate the physical dimensions of Jerome “Curly” Howard.
The studio is zeroing in on Benicio Del Toro to play Moe.
The film is not a biopic, but rather a comedy built around the antics of the three characters that Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Howard played in the Columbia Pictures shorts.
The quest by the Peter and Bobby Farrelly to harness the project spans more than a decade and three studios. They first tried at Columbia, again at Warner Bros., and finally at MGM, where Worldwide Motion Picture Group chairman Mary Parent championed the cause and bought the WB-owned scripts and made a deal with Stooges rights holders C3.
Production will begin in early fall for a release sometime in 2010. The Farrellys, who wrote the script, are producing with their Conundrum partner Bradley Thomas, and Charlie Wessler.
C3 Entertainment principals Earl and Robert Benjamin will be executive producers.
Project will get underway after Penn completes the Asger Leth-directed Universal/Imagine Entertainment drama “Cartel.” He hasn’t done a comedy since the 1989 laffer “We’re No Angels.”
The Farrellys have long had their eyes on Del Toro to play Moe. Del Toro, who’s coming off “Che,” showed comic chops in the Guy Ritchie-directed “Snatch.”
The surprise is the emergence of Carrey to play Curly. Howard established the character as a seminal physical comedian, from the first time he appeared in the first Stooges short in 1934 until he suffered a stroke on the set in 1946.
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What are they going to name the film?
1. Epic Fail
2. No, They Really ARE Stooges!
3. Not Funny In The Least
4. Depression Era Ripoff
5. Not As Funny As The Originals
6. At Least You Get To See Sean Penn Get Slapped
7. Now That’s Not Entertainment!
8. See Jim Carrey Fat!
9. Advisors To The President
10. We Couldn’t Get Chavez To Play Curly
“6. At Least You Get To See Sean Penn Get Slapped”
Sweet!
So are they calling it The Three Assholes?
when did Jim Carrey become an asshole? I mean Penn its obvious……del toro = jackss……
did JC do something I don’t know about?
Why!?!?!?
Why!?!?!?
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!?!?!?
Leave the great name of the stooges alone, is there anything Hollywood won’t fuck up?
Always has been since he floated in from the Great White North.
Nothing pisses me off more than white liberals bearing guilt is Canadian white liberals bearing guilt and trying to tell Americans how to feel about our nation.
Jim Carrey sucks. Must have been a goalie in his younger days. Hit with to many pucks in the head.
Geithner as larry, Barney Fag as Curley and Reid as Moe…..they don;t even need to rehearse.
Billy
The Stooges don’t need to be remade, just watch the old classics.
oh hell no