Paul Giamatti to replace Sean Penn as Larry in 'The Three Stooges'

New York Daily News ^ | Tuesday, August 11th 2009 | JACOB E. OSTERHOUT

[nickcarraway]

Go ahead, yuk it up.

Actor Paul Giamatti has signed on to replace Sean Penn as Larry in the Farrelly brothers' new movie version of “The Three Stooges."

Penn dropped out of the film earlier in the year citing personal reasons. Director Peter Farrelly recently confirmed that Giamatti had assumed Penn's role. Giamatti will join Benecio Del Toro, who will play Moe, and a yet-to-be-cast Curly.

There were reports that Jim Carey was set to play Curly, and the actor's appears on the Internet Movie Database alongside that role. He was even said to be gaining weight in preparation for the part. But Peter Farrelly told the Boston Globe last week that Carey was not involved in the project.

"The Three Stooges" is slated for release sometime in late 2010.

[ETL]

The remake of The Honeymooners made half of what it cost to produce.

And the original TV Honeymooners, which was so good it can't seriously be compared to this garbage, costs practically nothing to produce.

[GunsAndBibles]

The role was beyond Penn’s intellectual grasp.

[Lockbar]

"Did you hear about the remake of Red Dawn?"

I heard that it was being made. I'm sure in the new one a Clinton or Obama "look-a-like" will lead a group of young people to kill conservatives.

[rfp1234]

[Ranger Drew]

Actually, the Howard Brothers, to include Larry Fine were all real short guys.

[TomGuy]

They remade The Honeymooners? When was that?

2005

With Cedric the Entertainer as Ralph Kramden
The Honeymooners (2005) IMDB information

[duckman]

When they remake Abbott and Costello, my vote is for Bill Richardson as Costello.

[isom35]

funny you mention him, he played Curly in in 2000 in a made-for-tv movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214698/

[RichInOC]

I think Hugo might actually be too crazy to play Curly.

[rfp1234]

Wow, thanks for the link. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction!

[Richard Kimball]

Andy Richter looks a bit like Farley, but is too short to play Curly.

?

Curly was about 5'5". Moe was 5'4." Andy Richter is 6'2." I've always thought one of the reasons the Stooges always appealed to kids was that they were so short, kids identified with them. All the other actors were taller than them, so they came across like kids that pulled all the stuff the real kids would have loved to have done, but were afraid to do.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Either the late John Candy or the late John Belushi would also have been perfect as Curly, IMHO.

[rfp1234]

Hmmm. I stand corrected; he looks short compared to Conan, and is usually sitting down. Curly somehow looked big to me, on a tiny black/white TV screen. ROTFL (too busy laughing to pay attention to their heights).

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Either the late John Candy or the late John Belushi would also have been perfect as Curly, IMHO.

[Richard Kimball]

Just a little note on the Honeymooners. The producers used to receive curtains from fans. Then, as now, many people believe the characters. They felt sorry for Alice, not having any curtains on her windows.
I had never thought about it when seeing the show as a kid, but Ralph and Alice were really poor. She washed dishes in a utility sink.
Agree on your premise. Jackie Gleason and Art Carney were the reasons for the success of the show. Gleason WAS Ralph Kramden. It’s like casting a different Herman Munster or Gilligan. The actor was the character. There wasn’t any particular genius to the concept. It was two working class families that lived in the same apartment building.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Sorry for the repeat.

[Richard Kimball]

As Dustin Hoffman said in Hook, “to a child, I’m enormous.”

[posterchild]

Just finished watching the John Adams series. He did a great job!

[TomGuy]

Alice, not having any curtains on her windows

That was one contrast I always noted.

Trixie and Norton's apartment was seldom shown. But on those rare occasions when it was, it was decorated/painted and had nice furniture.

I always thought it strange that the 'star' family's apartment was sparse, and lacked almost any decorations.

[Stonewall Jackson]

During the filming of the parachute jump at the beginning of the movie, five of the thirty-six stuntmen were injured when a strong wind gust hit them and blew them into some rocks and trees.

Another stuntman, Jim Fisher, ended up almost two miles from the set, hanging in a tree, wearing a Russian uniform, including Soviet military insignia and an AKM assault rifle. He soon found himself surrounded by police officers and armed citizens and had to shout, "Don't shoot! Don't shoot! I'm not a Russian!"