Exactly. And can they do it without being crude?
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Posted on 03/30/2009 6:34:04 AM PDT by 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.
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Ick. Hate Sean Penn...hate the 3 stooges even more.
Art imitating life.
Sean Penn is a Stooge? Imagine that.
Moe had an accent ?:o)
An insult to Larry Fine.
I see Hollyweird is back to typecasting.
Larry Fine’s widow should sue for blasphemy.
I detest Penn’s politics (and that of his father BTW) but I respect his acting. Also love the Stooges and enjoy Jim Carrey. I will probably see this film at some point - although I personally doubt that they can recreate the magic that was Moe, Larry and Curley.
Yes, she should.
This is an affront to the Howard (Horwitz) family. Leo Penn was an ardent supporter of Adolph Hitler until he broke the Molotov-Rippentrop Treaty with Stalin, his other hero. The Stooges lampooned Hitler at every opportunity.
Why in the world do a remake? Is no one creative anymore, impossible to come up with something new?
In Cypress and Athens in the Med those folks are NUTS about the stooges. Insane crazy and episodes are played on the walls of the open courtyard bars and cafes. Their idea of a great night out is a Stooge’a thon !
Funny stuff !
Then there’s always a John Wayne movie dubbed in italian ......Buuuenaseria Senoritaaaa !
I’ll pass on this Sean Penn movie like the rest of his crap.
> detest Penn’s politics (and that of his father BTW) but I respect his acting.
Me too. I really enjoyed “The Thin Red Line” — he was good in that.
Can’t stand Jim Carey, not even for 2 minutes. He makes my teeth ache. So I won’t be going to the 3 Stooges movie — not if he’s in it.
Exactly. And can they do it without being crude?
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Yep......Agree !
Stooges.... they were funny ! I liked Chaplin yet despised his politics and fence sitting !
If Penn is in it, I won’t see it!
Penn’s been rehearsing for the part ever since he became Hugo Chavez’s stooge.
Exactly. And can they do it without being crude?
I heard about this for the first time yesterday and knowing nothing else about it, I’m willing to bet it will be very crude and vulgar.
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.
Huh? Jim Carey? Sean Penn? That’s just horrible casting.
Sean Penn couldn’t carry Larry Fine’s jock strap.
” 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.
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.
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.
They will make Larry into a closet homosexual, and Penn will win an Oscar for such a “courageous portrayal.”
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.
Why can’t Hollyweird leave the classics alone? They ruin everything they touch.
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.
Type casting.
I wonder how they're going to get around that? Voice-overs?
LOL !
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.
Benicio Del Toro is fatter than Jim Carrey. Is Jim going to wear a fat suit?
Cast Joe Biden as Moe.
“If Penn is in it, I won’t see it!”
Copy that!
Shemp Howard had the most viable film career outside of the Three Stooges. Moe appeared in a couple of films.
They almost reunited for Blazing Stewardesses but the Ritz Brothers ended up with the part (I think because of Larry’s failing health).
Sean Penn couldn’t carry Larry Fine’s jockstrap.
Hollywierd has to resort to remakes because they don’t have an original idea or writer left on the whole Left Coast.
This one will flop like a rotting dead carp in the hot sun, and smell even worse.
And I am unaware if he is a stinking Commie who pals around with dictators while insulting America.
Larry was my favorite of the 3 stooges, I imagine Sean Penn could play Larry very well. I don’t like Penn’s politics, but I don’t let that stop me from enjoying his performances.
Yeah I do remember that about Shemp. And that’s more or less my point. Shemp had too hard of an act to follow when Curly had to retire. Objectively Shemp was great - it’s just that he wasn’t Curly.
Jim Carrey as Curley? Well sure! I mean, I can hardly tell them apart. And how about Rosie O’Donnell as Moe.
Sean Penn to play Larry. Jim Carrey was in negotiations for the role of Curly. Munford would not confirm reports that Benicio Del Toro will play Moe.
That is just friggin sad,pathetic and asinine.
Penn? Why not save money and use a wooden log?
Del Toro? Wow a barrel of no luaghs there........... The only Stooges here are the idiots that think Sean Penn can be in a Stooges movie...........
I won’t fund a naked Communist.
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