They are making a "Three Stooges" movie

[GaryC 7]

The Stooges are my all time favorite comedy team. It's going to be hard to do them justice with this. What do you think? Oh and I can understand Jim Carrey as Curly but Sean Penn as Larry?? Come on!!

Three Stooges' coming together at MGM

Wed Mar 25, 2009, 02:54 PM ET • Source: Hollywood Reporter

Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.

MGM and the Farrelly brothers are finally slapping together their high-profile cast for "The Three Stooges," a comedy project the filmmakers have been developing for years. Sean Penn is set to play Larry, and Jim Carrey is in negotiations to play Curly. Benicio del Toro is a rumored possibility for the brothers' taciturn leader, Moe.

The studio is looking to start production in the fall for a 2010 release slot.

The project was originally set up at Columbia, which produced the 1930s Stooges shorts. C3 Entertainment Inc., which holds the licensing rights to the Stooges brand, then sold the feature rights to Warner Bros. in 2001 for the Farrellys to write and produce the movie. Eventually, Warner Bros. let the rights lapse and MGM's Mary Parent scooped them up along with the Farrellys' continuing participation.

Peter and Bobby Farrelly wrote the script, which Bobby has referenced as "Dumb, Dumber & Dumbest," and will produce with Bradley Thomas and Charlie Wessler. Earl and Robert Benjamin of C3 will executive produce.

The film is not a biopic but a fictional treatment that maintains the Stooges' gleeful slap schtick updated for a modern milieu.

Originally constructed as four separate shorts, the feature screenplay has since been streamlined into a single narrative. Included in the story line is an opening that shows the Stooges as kids in an orphanage, a device that will require some "Benjamin Button"-style visual trickery to place the adult actors' heads on child actors' bodies.

The Stooges maintain remarkably global brand recognition, and their shorts, films and cartoons are still broadcast in 30 countries. The Farrelly brothers' latest comedy "The Heartbreak Kid" grossed $124 million worldwide.

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[*Robert* 2]

Defiinitely NOT Sean Penn...

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

i thought it would be mikey moore, sean penn, and david letterman

[spookyturtle 9,465]

I thought it would be Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

I thought it would be Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

i knew you'd come along and say that

[spookyturtle 9,465]

I thought it would be Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

i knew you'd come along and say that

I couldn't resist. All in good humor.

[Marilyn. 340]

I don't think that would be good at all... but I do think Jim Carrey would be a good Curly...

no way on sean Penn and the other guy though

[I'm Gone 60]

No way, even the Stooges weren't as good without Curley, so how are three actors going to improve on them.

There was only two people that can say Moe, Larry cheese or pick out two. Sean Penn can probably do a Larry, because to me he's the easiest Stooge to replace.

[Carlawarla 1]

I would suggest that any of these movies that they remake for baby boomers to "relive" bomb. Gosh, leave the The Stooges alone!

[*Robert* 2]

I would suggest that any of these movies that they remake for baby boomers to "relive" bomb. Gosh, leave the The Stooges alone!

I totally agree. There are some things that are just best left alone. It's hard to improve on the original.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I was wondering what Sylvester Stallone's new movie was all about

I would suggest that any of these movies that they remake for baby boomers to "relive" bomb. Gosh, leave the The Stooges alone!

I totally agree. There are some things that are just best left alone. It's hard to improve on the original.

I dunno - the BBC did a pretty good radio comedy series a number of years ago based on the Marx Brothers lost scripts. Had soundalike actors playing the Marx Brothers - it was actually pretty good.

Of course... we have had terrible remakes of classic comedies - like Steve Martin's version of the Pink Panther. Sacrilege.

[Peikko 1,575]

It seems a very strange thing to do. I guess there is a desire to make certain classics more accessible to the 'youf' of today or something. Are they doing to remake Chaplin, Harold Lloyd or Laural and Hardy next?

[justashooter 430]

i guess obama, clinton, and pelosi were too busy?

[I'm Gone 60]

i guess obama, clinton, and pelosi were too busy?

Maybe Obama, Geithner and Bernanke

[spookyturtle 9,465]

i guess obama, clinton, and pelosi were too busy?

Maybe Obama, Geithner and Bernanke

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were much better stooges.