The Farrelly Brothers are closing in on their take on a big screen adaptation of the kings of slaptstick, The Three Stooges. Sean Penn is signed and Jim Carrey and Benicio Del Toro to play Curly and Moe.
The 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.
Earlier rumours pointed that they wanted Johnny Depp to play Moe, but Depp’s name gets thrown around as “in consideration” for every role lately, so I automatically dismissed it.
Should be interesting to see Jim Carrey pack on some serious pounds for Larry, which I think is a good fit for a slapstick character. He did look more like Moe in Dumb and Dumber though.
I still think this doesn’t need to be made. (it failed our litmus test) but that wont change that they are doing it anyways The original still holds up for what it is. They didn’t invent slapstick, but they did perfect it, and I would watch a Biopic about the Stooges, but I just think this will be another Dumb and Dumber … which I hated.
What do you think about the casting? Does the very idea of adapting the Stooges to the big screen even have appeal to you?
