Barney Frank could fill in for Besser as "Stinky"
Posted on 03/25/2009 2:24:54 PM PDT by buccaneer81
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.
I didn’t know what YGTBFKM was, and then I figured it out. It’s what I thought when I first saw Sean Penn. UUUGGGHHH.I can’t give him any of my money, so I’ll have to wait for it on HBO.
I think YUK YUK YUK YUK YUK! is actually more fitting :)
I wanted Ringo to play Larry
Moe wanted to quit after Curley died in 1952. He was rich from real estate investments. But he stuck it out for Larry, who went through money like water.
The guy who just played Che, now playing Moe.
Moe is their leader.
Curly Takes the Stand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxAk3B_zS5k&feature=related
Robert De Niro = Moe
Woody Harrelson = Larry
Kevin James = Curly
Michael Richards = Shemp
Jack Black = Curly Joe
I burned a dvd of Chiklas as Curley. He was pretty good at the role, too!
Chiklas already did play Curly in a movie. He was very good in the role. The guy that played Larry in that movie was absolutely perfect.
Funny that Chiklas made his greatest mark playing the ruthless badass Vick Mackey, after playing both Curly and John Belushi on the way up.
Moe is part Native American. You can tell.
This is a crime against Humanity.
Barney Frank could fill in for Besser as "Stinky"
Curly is the only reason the Stooges are remembered.
I wasted an entire summer trying to figure out how to make the sound Curly made when he thumped his neck with his fingers. It wasn't until about ten years after I'd grown up that I saw an episode and realized they'd put in the sound of wood blocks.
Larry Fine Interview 1 - Motion Picture Country Home - 1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKzgbrfn9bw&feature=related
Well, I left that out ‘cause I figured everyone at FR was aware of that.
Ain’t gonna work.
Actually, it is: Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck!
I don't know if I should fall on the floor and do The Curly Shuffle or cry.
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