The Three Stooges’ Movie in the Works

Hollywood has decided that they are going to remake everything from how childhood into either something amazing or leave you will a feeling of violated and dirty. Hopefully this will not be the case, MGM and the Farrelly brothers are tossing back and forth the idea of Sean Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio Del Toro as The Three Stooges. Ya, I don't see it either.

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.

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.

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.

I don't know about this remake, then again, I say that about all the remakes that Hollywood is molesting. I guess we are going to have to wait and see when the trailer is released. source>>>

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