Looks like the Farrelly Brothers efforts to bring a big screen adaptation of The Three Stooges has suffered another setback. It was a pretty solid cast of Bencio Del Toro as Moe, Sean Penn as Larry and Jim Carrey as Curly. But then Sean Penn quit.
And now Jim Carrey has quit too.
Worst Previews shares his reasons:
Then things began to fall apart. Penn dropped out and Carrey now tells MTV that he’s out as well. “I think it’s dead,” he revealed. “It’s dead at least with me.”
He went on to explain that he’s worried that the weight he’ll have to gain may actually jeopardize his health. “I don’t really want to do anything halfway, and I don’t feel like a fat suit does it,” said Carrey. “I started experimenting with it a little bit, and I gained 35, 40 pounds. I wanted to gain another 30, 40. When you’re [Robert] De Niro in your 20s or early 30s, you can kind of come back from that. It’s a tough thing to come back from when you’re upwards of 30 (joking about his age, he’s actually 48 years old). Your body can’t carry it or you can have a cardiac arrest.
That is a pretty drastic commitment to make to a film. Gaining 60-80 lbs on his already slender form might have worked great for the character, but less for his physique in the long run.
There has been so little news about this film I would imagine timing would be an issue as well. No word as to when filming would take place and if they sprung it on him he would have to pork out in a hurry. Or get himself into chubby shape and stay there hoping filming starts soon.
Carrey would have been a great addtion to the cast, but I understand his reasons for leaving.
I’m ok with this one dying. There was nothing inherently funny about the stories of the Three Stooges (the stories were pretty much vehicles for the comedy) and there is nothing interesting about the “characters” in the Stooges (do we really know anything about them that is the same from one short to the next?)
The reason the Three Stooges is brilliant and well-remembered was because of the guys who played the Stooges themselves. The Howard Brothers and Larry Fine were gifted vaudevillians. How can you replicate that other than have some new guys poke each other in the eyes and throw an occasional pie?
No reason to remake this at all.
I’m glad this is dying. A biopic would be one thing, but the stooges are iconic and having other actors in these rolls just wouldn’t be right (in my opinion).
I cant say I would’ve even been interested in seeing it even if none had dropped out.
I don’t know, just how I feel really.
They should get Russell Crowe for Moe, Zach Galifianakis as Larry and Jack Black as Curly
With both guys out I can assume it’s dead as well, Sorry Benicio