Farrelly Brothers find their Stooges!?!

[taking a DEEP breath] So, as if learning a while back that the Farrelly Brothers were planning to do a “modern” remake of the Three Stooges wasn’t blasphemous enough, now we’re getting the news that MGM and the Farrelly Brothers are really closing to securing their stooges.

Why is this bothering me so much? Well, I haven’t told you WHO was being cast yet. Sean Penn is already confirmed to play Larry, the studio is in negotiations to cast Jim Carrey as Curly, and they’re apparently growing closer to landing Benicio del Toro as Moe!

The Farrelly Brothers have been struggling to get one of the major studios to bite on this project for the better part of a decade. Now that MGM has climbed aboard, it seems things are full steam ahead.

So goes the word on the street, Carrey is even already making plans to gain 40 pounds for the role! God, why hast thou forsaken me! Yeah, I like all of these actors and I could totally see this working if they were making a BIOPIC of the actors and not a COMEDY, but that’s not the case.

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. — Variety

I’m not even sure exactly what the above snippet means, but it’s clear that the movie is NOT a biopic. Jim Carrey makes sense, I suppose, but how the three will manage to work together on such a fragile comedic concept without butchering it and still, by some miracle, reignite that special chemistry that the REAL Three Stooges had is way beyond me.

I’m sorry for being so negative and pessimistic (not really) about this news, but I grew up watching and loving ‘The Three Stooges’ [re-runs that is] and still have many fond and joyous memories of that time and activity of my life. I’d like to say I still religiously watch the Stooges on Spike TV, but who has the time? This is really a hard realization for me to swallow. All I can say is… Farrelly Brothers, you’re treading on thin ice, my friends!

[source: Variety]