Farrellys to make a Three Stooges movie

[Batty]

https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117995188.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

 

[galactiboy]

WFT?!?

 

[occulum]

jeez ... nothing is safe anymore ...

 

[Darthrazz]

I think a biopic would have been much more interesting.

 

[King Darkness]

 

[CelticPredator]

The only way this could be good, is if they make it gory as hell....

 

[occulum]

a Kill Bill-esque 3 Stooges might be fun ..

 

[EVILFACE]

Proof there is no God.

 

[Darthrazz]

The only way this could be good, is if they make it gory as hell....

It needs Zombies!

 

[CelticPredator]

YES. Aliens too.

 

[Kuzeh]

Lame!!!
Seriously, there's a creativity crisis in Hollywood...

 

[Giant Chicken]

I was sick when I heard about this idea a few years back when the farrley bro. were going to make the movie with Warner... I was relieved when the deal fell through. Now all I can say is,

 

[Darthrazz]

All I can say I finally found a chance to use this smilie!!!!

 

[Shropt]

Why? Seriously, why?

 

[MadCow]

YES. Aliens too.

Quick someone call Spielberg!!!

 

[Ancient Astronaut]

Oh God please don't. Leave the Stooges alone.

 

[Darth Madden]

a Kill Bill-esque 3 Stooges might be fun ..

Like the one in Seinfeld. Where the stooges are accused of killing a kid and executed.

 

[Batty]

This is incredible casting news if true. It almost seems like this news was released a week too soon.

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.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

WTF?!?

Bad idea.

 

[The Mike]

WFT?!?

What ^^^^ the?

The most shocking thing in that release is Penn as Larry. For some reason I think he is way too self involved and takes himself way too seriously to do Stooge comedy but if it pans out it'll be interesting.