Giamatti’s a Stooge! Carrey’s Not!

That’s the word from The Boston Globe, anyway.  They have reported that Paul Giamatti has signed on to replace Sean Penn as Larry.  Word comes straight from director Peter Farrelly.  They are also saying Jim Carrey, earlier announced to be playing the part of Curly, would not be appearing in the film.  As far as anyone can tell, Benicio Del Toro is still on as the troupe’s leader, Moe.

It was announced earlier in the Summer that Sean Penn had dropped out of the project.  Penn wanted to take a step back from Hollywood and spend some time with his family, something that’s not that hard to do once you’ve just won an Academy Award.

This idea is just bad, bad, bad all the way around.  There is really no point in the Farrelly’s putting an A-list cast together to try and reenact some of the Stooges’ greatest adventures.  Okay, maybe a biopic on the group’s life together might be interesting.  I stress “MIGHT,” but the idea of continuing on the Three Stooges with three, modern actors filling the roles is just, plain dumb.  This, to me, is even worse than remaking a classic film.  This is remaking characters made famous by other, gifted actors and using what they have done in the past to make your own movie.  Just shameful.

‘The Three Stooges’ is eyeing a 2010 release.