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not sure about this one!

MGM gets its 'Stooges'

Penn, Carrey, Del Toro part of studio's plan

Sean Penn
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Jim Carrey
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Benicio Del Toro
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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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I don't like it.

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What ever happened to NEW ideas?

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I have to say I am kind of curious to see this...

I remember, I was dating a girl in the 80's.  It was a couple years after I graduated from college and I was saving for law school.  We were talking on the phone one night and I was looking at my Three Stooges key chain and somehow we started talking about the Three Stooges.

The girl said "How can you like the Three Stooges, They are a$$-holes (nice mouth huh)?  I said, "I really like the slapstick comedy, it just makes me laugh."

Well the conversation moved on.  The next night we went to see a comedy showcase at the University of Milwaukee that Jay Leno emceed.  There were several notable comics from the time there...Emo Phillips, Franklin Ajaye come to mind.

Anyway, Leno was doing a bit and he says, " Did you ever notice a guy could have a degree from MIT in nuclear physics and still like the three stooges and all women think they are a$$-holes?

I still havent proven that Jay Leno was tapping my phone in the 80's but I am willing to settle out of court.  biggrin

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I can't really see Sean Penn or Benicio Del Toro being silly enough for those roles. Maybe if it was "The Three Stooges Kill Somebody".

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Men, sunday morning and the three stooges. They just go together. Wanna make a guy happy? Give him the three stooges boxed set. nod.gif That'll keep them happy and occupied.

-- Edited by confuzzed on Thursday 26th of March 2009 01:52:28 PM

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AMEN Sister! biggrin

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some things should be left alone, and I think this is one of them.  I won't see it.

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Kids love The Stooges, too.  Tells you something about men, doesn't it?  biggrin

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I've never liked The Three Stooges, so I know this will be a movie I pass on.

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why are we men always being picked on.

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I dunno.. I like the Stooges. I tend to refer to the collection of my grandkids as "Larry, Moe, and Squirrely". Grandkid #4 will be "Shemp". If I see somebody with the bowl haircut, I can't resist yelling "Hey Moe!"

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ghostdancer wrote:

I've never liked The Three Stooges, so I know this will be a movie I pass on.


I agree.  I'm not that much of a girly girl, but I must have too much estrogen for The Three Stooges.

 



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Mad Mema wrote:

I dunno.. I like the Stooges. I tend to refer to the collection of my grandkids as "Larry, Moe, and Squirrely". Grandkid #4 will be "Shemp". If I see somebody with the bowl haircut, I can't resist yelling "Hey Moe!"



AWESOME! biggrin



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I still think that some things should be left alone.

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JR, JD and Web?confuse

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