Sean Penn playing Larry in Stooges movie

Houston Chronicle ^ | 3/28/09 | (none given)

[laotzu]

Sean Penn is going slapstick. MGM says the double Oscar winner has signed on to play Larry in the Farrelly brothers' big-screen update of The Three Stooges.

Jim Carrey was in negotiations for the role of Curly, said MGM spokesman Grey Munford.

The studio first featured the Stooges in a series of shorts and features beginning in 1933. Munford would not confirm reports that Benicio Del Toro will play Moe. He said filming begins this fall on the comedy, which is expected to be released in 2010.

[gate2wire]

Benicio Del Toro...? Isn’t that the guy who portrayed/admires Che?

Along with little sean, two reasons not to see this movie.
No way in hell.

[al_c]

Huh? Jim Carey? Sean Penn? That’s just horrible casting.

[AnnGora]

Sean Penn couldn’t carry Larry Fine’s jock strap.

[woodbutcher1963]

” detest Penn’s politics but I respect his acting.”

He was great in Mystic River. Of course Clint Eastwood directed him.

Jim Carey was very funny in Liar, Liar and Bruce Almighty.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

As much as Sean Penn is a very lost individual, he is a great actor. I’ll watch it on DVD when it comes out.

[wbill]

I saw this.

I've watched a lot of 3 stooges. Wonder how Penn is going to work in a lecture on the evils of Conservativism, while getting boinked in head with a hammer.

[Raster Man]

They will make Larry into a closet homosexual, and Penn will win an Oscar for such a “courageous portrayal.”

[BenLurkin]

He's gonna bailout Hollyweird...

[DM1]

much as i despise Penn when i saw Sean Penn in Carlito's way i commented to my friend "wow he looks like Larry Fine from the stooges"

[BenLurkin]

[NavyCanDo]

There was a made for TV movie about the stooges a few years back. I was exited about the show, and set the DVR to record it to DVD. That DVD became a coffee coaster, because the show was a hot stinking, steaming pile of cow-pie. The acting was terrible and it was impossible to believe it was the 1930’s 40’s and 50’s.

Granted, passing yourself off as a huge celebrity in a movie is one of the most challenging bits of acting you can do, but it has been done. The Buddy Holly Story, la Bamba, Walk the Line, and even Kurt Russel as Elvis. But somehow doing a successful imitation of the stooges on film, even for Sean Penn is going to be a tough nuk to crack, and I do mean nuk.

[Fresh Wind]

Why can’t Hollyweird leave the classics alone? They ruin everything they touch.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I think of, for example, the Beverly Hillbillies movie. That was one of the all time great TV shows but the movie was pretty awful. I think the Miss Jane character was semi-OK (I think it was Lily Tomlin, no?) but the rest - well once you have the initial characters in your head everyone else comes up short.

Which is why 99% of Stooges fans don’t like the post-Curley Stooges shorts. Shemp, or the others may have been “good”, but they weren’t Curley. It’s an almost impossibly high bar.

[shove_it]

Type casting.

[mass55th]

"Moe had an accent ?:o)"

I wonder how they're going to get around that? Voice-overs?

[WrightOnTarget]

[Squantos]

LOL !

[mass55th]

"Also love the Stooges"

I've purchased and have been watching the recently released collections of their film shorts. They are well-done, and the quality is excellent. I highly recommend them. So far there are five volumes that have been released. These run from 1934-1948. The last volume includes Shemp, who replaced Curly after his stroke.

[a fool in paradise]

Benicio Del Toro is fatter than Jim Carrey. Is Jim going to wear a fat suit?

Cast Joe Biden as Moe.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“If Penn is in it, I won’t see it!”

Copy that!