SI: ?The Three Stooges? Still Set For 2010, Search Is On For Curly

[Christopher]

A film about the Three Stooges, simply titled The Three Stooges, is scheduled to be released in 2010. The Farrelly Brothers, who have directed smash hits such as There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, Me, Myself & Irene are attached to the project, even though their Warner Bros. deal to write and direct the film has expired. First Look Studios, working with C3 Entertainment, will distribute the motion picture. The Farrellys have said that they were not going to do a biopic or remake, but instead new Three Stooges episodes set in the present day. The film taken to MGM studios will start production in the fall of 2009 to be released in 2010, and will be distributed worldwide by Columbia and Sony Pictures.

Jim Carrey is set to play Curly, with the actor already making plans to gain 50 pounds to approximate the physical dimensions of Jerome “Curly” Howard. The studio is zeroing in on another Oscar-winner, Benicio del Toro, to play Moe. The studio had previously set Oscar-winner Sean Penn to play Larry, but Penn has since dropped out to spend time with his family. Actors Paul Giamatti, Simon Pegg and Zach Galifianakis are rumored to be replacing Penn.

Farrelly hasn’t mentioned much about its status aside from, “It will be three half-hour episodes rolled into an hour-and-a-half movie,” he said. “Each part picks up where the other one left off. They look the same, talk the same and act the same, but it takes place in the present, and we wrote new material.” There is some lingering skepticism that Penn’s departure could cause a “domino effect” on the other actors.

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