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Film: The Three Stooges (you won't believe who they're looking to cast)

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MGM gets its 'Stooges'
Penn, Carrey, Del Toro part of studio's plan
By MICHAEL FLEMING

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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Thank God its not Seth Rogan!!!!

I dont think that I have even ever seen an episode of the 3 Stooges, but I think if I did I would dig 'em

I love all those 3 actors-I can't wait to see this. And woop woop for Jim Carey gaining 40 pounds lol
 
This is extremely retarded. I am shocked. Sean Penn?!? Jim Carrey makes a bit of sense... I guess... But Sean Penn?!? I have no idea what either he or the casting director are thinking.

Also the Farrelly brothers haven't done anything good for a long time.
 
I sense an epic fail. There are times when a product is more than its jokes or characters, and the Three Stooges are it. For instance, I never liked Animaniacs as much as some of my other peers, because for all its cleverness, you could tell it was trying too hard to be like the original Looney Toons in terms of its in-jokes. You can't do it, though; you can't reproduce Chuck Jones or I. Freleng or the time and the place and history that, rolled into one, makes a Looney Toons episode great, and an Animaniacs just watchable.

My point: you can only make a watered-down copy of the Three Stooges, just like you can only make a pathetic attempt to update The Pink Panther with someone other than Peter Sellers.

P.S.--Sean Penn? Christ Almighty.
 
I saw a picture of Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and Jim Carrey in a shopped poster for the Three Stooges floating around the net....looked good! I'll look for it again...
 
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Wow Sean Penn is like one of my favorite actors. I totally think he can take on the comedic challenge. I'm excited to see this
 
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