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The Farrelly Brothers Find A Studio And A Release Date For Their Three Stooges Movie!
Beaks here...
Seven years after Ain't It Cool's first story on the matter, Variety is reporting that Peter and Bobby Farrelly are finally set to make their big-screen Three Stooges movie.
Though the film spent five years in development at Warner Brothers, the project has now moved on to MGM, which has also announced a November 20, 2009 release date just to let you know they're serious about making this fucker. As for whether someone like Benicio Del Toro is still interested in playing Moe, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
A year ago, the Farrellys were talking about doing a traditional-feeling Stooges picture with the addition of bodily fluid humor: for example, the classic oyster stew bit would be replicated with peeing infants. I respect the hell out of the Farrellys (even after they destroyed Elaine May's brilliant THE HEARTBREAK KID), but I think random, unprovoked violence is funnier than shit-and-piss gags. Then again, I didn't write for SEINFELD.
Interestingly, that November 20th date is already occupied by Guy Ritchie's SHERLOCK HOLMES and an animated film called PLANET 51. Gettin' a little crowded there.
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Three Stooges and Passion of the Christ. The best director in Hollywood.
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Their only good movie was There's Something About Mary and they've been coasting by from that ever since. Someone needs to tell them their brand of humor is old and doesn't work anymore, if it ever did.
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Let the Stooges stay in the past. I can't see this flick being much better than the 'Honeymooners' update.
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Is this pic meant to be a biopic about the Stooges, a flick featuring new actors in the roles (like the new Trek), or a "tribute" not unlike the Marx-like "Brain Donors," or the way "Mouse Hunt" was inspired by Laurel & Hardy?
We are all victims of circumstance. -
Who's playing those parts?
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The movie will end with the Stooges running into the distance, with an angry mob chasing them. "Hot on their heels," as the kids today say.
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Which one will calm down Curly in this version?
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Raise your right hand!
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I'd take the bread out of one corner and pilot in the other!
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"Curly" can still rock the buzzcut, but I think "Larry" should have whiteboy dreads instead of the nappy Jewfro.
Also, "Moe" should sport more of an emo 'do rather than the Spock bangs. I'm just sayin'... -
Slowly, I turn...
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when's the marx brothers and abbott and costello movie? Why don't we just remake every single stinkin movie ever made and get it over with.
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This is an epic fail. You cannot update the stooges. It simply cannot work.
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I hope they either change their minds or get hit by a bus...it's up to them.
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Unless Russel Crowe plays Moe.
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...that sounds stupid. Beaks, if you're going to use the word "fucker" at least use it so you don't sound like a retard. Here is an example of how this word could have been put to better use:
"a November 20, 2009 release date just to let you know they're serious about making this MOVIE. As for whether some FUCKER like Benicio Del Toro is still interested in playing Moe, I guess we'll just have to wait and see,FUCKERS."
See? My way is not retarded at all.
Flames on Shemp = Nipples on Moe.
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Wasn't Crowe as Moe the theory put forward in the New Yorker article years ago? Why that magazine did a profile on the Farrellies, I'll never know. This movie will only work if it's a biopic.
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With the Jonas brothers as Chico and Harpo! Shia as Groucho! And special guest appearance by Zac Efron as Zeppo! Pouty! Emo! Funny! Hot! Yes the timeless comedy of the Marx Brothers is back for all to enjoy in Horse Feathers - a frat house comedy riot! Coming next year - Laurel and Hardy starring Jack Black and Will Ferrell!!!!!
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One of those rare things that no matter what or when, always funny. I usually don't say this, but this one is pretty much impossible to remake.
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The Stooges are timeless. They are classic. Classic means that they don't go out of style. So if you want Stooges, all you have to do is watch them. The work has already been done and cannot be improved upon. NOW WHY WON'T SOME FUCKER MAKE A STAINLESS STEEL RAT MOVIE, ALREADY? Harry Harrison is a great author and Slippery Jim needs to be on the silver screen. The GODS demand it.
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Dumb and Dumber = Brilliant retarded bliss
Kingpin = decent but not brilliant
There's Something About Mary = Set the bar for modern comedy
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That's pretty low in the good ideas lexicon, but it's still just above a meta-remake of Bewitched starring Will Farrell so... wait they did WHAT?
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Not in a good way. And I'm not really a Three Stooges fan.
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C'mere, Porcupine...
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I got my EYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYES closed...!
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Hey, MOE...!
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I gots 2 words of utter re-make failure: "Beverly Hillbillies". I was forced to sit thru 15 minutes of it the other day. I'm scarred for life.
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"Brady Bunch"
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"Adams Family"
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I can't really see why three stooges fans would ever care for this project, and tweens these days probably have no clue who they were. There's a good reason why it's been some seven years since the inception of this project.
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"Three Stooges"
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"Theres Something About Mary". Funniest movie EVAR.
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I should point out that I'm not a Stooges fan, buy I'll say the only reason they ever were funny is because they worked well together and those were their characters. You cant just have some random comedians/actors doing Stooges impersonations and expect it to work. But if they have to do it, they should cast Will Sasso, Rob Schneider, Kurtwood Smith and Kathy Griffin as the Stooges (well maybe not Griffin, but it would be funny to see her getting smacked around).
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This is a perfect example of the lack of creativity in Hollywood and the pure visceral manipulation of the sheep who watch crap like this. FACTS: THE THREE STOOGES were CHARACTER ACTORS. You cant make a character movie by specific characters without the actual characters themselves. It would be like making a "son-of-Indiana Jones" movie after a failed 4th movie or something. Ummm...
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It's still a horrible idea, but it would be a different character and not Indiana himself. So the logic here would be to make it a Sons of Three Stooges movie with a bunch of Stooges Juniors.
See Hollywood? I'm more original than you!! -
is going in the wrong direction. It'd be an interesting experiment to see if a good, "traditional feeling" Stooges movie could be made (probably not) but I think that money can be better spent on another project.
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Sam Raimi won't be sad if they decide to get a new director for Spider-Man 4, just so long as he could direct a Stooges movie. And you can bet he wouldn't put any shit or piss gags in it.
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You can't replace the boys.They were unique. What's next, making new John Wayne movies with someone else starring as John Wayne? Whoever was stupid enough to greenlight this deserves to be sweeping up the studio parking lot, and after this movie flops he'll be damn lucky if they even let him on the lot to do that.
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I happened to bump into Pete Farrelly on Saturday afternoon, and we talked Stooges for a few. First of all, anyone whose favorite Stooge is Larry Fine is a perfect custodian for the property. And secondly, yes, Benecio Del Toro is still Moe.
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you can say what you want, but getting anybody no matter how talented to be in this, it's still just gonna be bad wannabe Stooges.
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The entire film would consist of recreations of opening scenes of all movies that are regularly rent - AND of pissin' an' fartin' "jokes"! The target audience of "Family Guy" would love it!
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In the one Mel Gibson Executive Produced. Who would they go for now. I got a funny feeling they'd use Kevin James. Buscemi for Shemp.
Piss and Shit humor in a Stooge flick. Say it aint so.... -
Yeah, 90% temper, 10% mental!
YackBacker... I couldn't agree more, but movie-goers deserve as much of the blame as Hollywood. As for a 3 Stooges film, it is destined for failure because the originals were a product of their time. I guess the only way this will work is if Curly's head explodes when Moe puts him in a vise. -
Oh for the love of a Mummy... If it is, cancel this abomination. If it's a biopic, there was one already. So what's the point?
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... the script is three Stooges shorts, back to back to back. No connective tissue. No larger storyline. No character growth or concessions to modern storytelling. Just three Stooges shorts.
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That much is already established. Kevin James, I sort of want as Curly, as I think he can do the goofy slapstick/smartass thing...Moe...if they got Russell Crowe, as bad as this flick would be, I would go see it.
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Get Billy to dub the voice!!!!!!!!
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http://tinyurl.com/67crtz
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Nov 04, 2008 8:21:41 AM CST
The Farrelly's lost it after Something about Mary
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
Up till then it was all class. Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin rate highly on my laugh-o-meter. They then proceeded to make an unfunny Jim Carrey film where he had split personalities!!!!How do you fuck that up????
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Hollywood yet again shows they have no talent or imagination. What's next, an I Love Lucy remake starring Rosie O'Fat?
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...with the three black Stooges who were throwing aorund cocaine instead of pies? I think that was funny. (But it's been 10 years since I saw this, so don't lynch me if it's not.)
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...The Addams Family? I'm sure you mean that Fox Kids show or the DTV-movie with Daryl Hannah and Tim Curry, right?
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He's already played one stooge, so he really knows the material!
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The reason this is going to suck and fail is because you can't bring in Benicio and tell me he is now Moe Howard. You can't bring in Mel Gibson and tell me he is now Jerry Lewis. To anyone who would give a crap about seeing this, you would be a Stooge fan and they would be so embedded in your brain that is would be impossible and ridiculous to accept anyone else as the Stooges. The Stooges would probably be amazed & honored that their films have been restored and released in the modern medium, but to tell them someone else is playing their parts? I'm sure you'd get a "N'yuk, N'yuk, go fuck yourselves!"
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Staring three guys impersonating the Three Stooges. I'd rather just watch the original ones.
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Although I stopped caring about what the Farrelly Brothers were doing nearly a decade ago...
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...is if they had three new stooges. Not impressions of the character actors that were the original stooges. Come up with three new modern stooges and make it very funny but with the typical stooges slapstick. Of course, that would defeat the point of the "remake" - to cash in on peoples' memories of the original, rather than create something fresh.
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Ohmigod, if this movie doesn't include cheaply-animated, bionic three stooges for Saturday Morning, then forget it!
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What a moronic phrase
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respect the stooges enough that they'll be careful how they write this. They're not trying to replace them, just do a modern continuation of them. If they can brew the right cast then it'll work in it's own way.
It's almost an impossible task to try and match the original. But it doesn't mean that they won't succeed in developing a franchise that's very funny. If you compare to much it'll fail.
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better meme, and more to the point.
This will be nothing but a bad series of standup impersonations. It will make money because it will cost sixty bucks to make. -
...because there has not been a big screen movie based on their life. There was a TV movie that sucked, and made Moe look like a total asshole/dickhead. He probably was an asshole/dickhead/prick. I don't know. It could work if it showed us what really happened back then, with the sex, drugs, and stuff like that.
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I hope it does anyways. The Farrellys are done making anything worth watching. They kinda made their version of the stooges with "Dumb and Dumber" and that was funny. This however will not be funny because we live in a different era of comedy, and you can't re create the timing and personality of those characters. You can't cater to the "Disaster Movie" "Meet the Spartans" crowd, and make a 3 stooges film with piss and fart jokes. I like the stooges because they play off each other and that's why it works. You can't re create that with modern day actors and that's why this film is gonna suck incredibly bad and I'm amazed that The Farrellys who claim to have so much respect for the original shorts would want to attempt this. I guess you must reach a point in hollywood where you start to believe in your own hype, however this isn't 1998. Whatever hype there was for the Farrellys has surely passed by now.
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Also it should be just like the traditional Stooges but with added graphic violence, blood and dismemberment.
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"the classic oyster stew bit would be replicated with peeing infants"My brain hurts.
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The Stoogrs weren't about frat humor (you can see it on the horizon; Curley eats a surplus of "nuclear" chili, cuts a fart and blows-up an entire city block; fade to the Stooges in a cheesy Heaven with visible wires animating their wings). I always thought the Stooges were inferior to Laurel and Hardy (a credible relationship and the reciprocal destruction motif has appended longevity to Stan And Ollie's legacy)--but I undeniably laugh, out loud, when watching DISORDER IN THE COURT (which has slipped into public domain!), POP GOES THE EASEL, PUNCH DRUNKS (nice visibility for Larry), MEN IN BLACK and WOMAN HATERS (Moe is out of control in this one). I enjoy vintage Stooges though I'm fond of THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT and MEET HERCULES (funnier than HERCULES IN NEW YORK, what with Arnold Stang's homoerotic link to Arnold. No one Arnie dodges this bullet). Their most extravagant movie, SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES, is godawful (body count is huge, what with a guy scalded to death, impalements, death-by-arrows, et al. It's undiluted Grand Guignol, the most sadistic of the Stooges movies. Really lame, with the boys often replaced by body doubles). But where's the love for Joe ("I'll harm you") Besser? Cast as Stinky, he was the scene-stealer on THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW. Yeah, he was no Curley but had a few moments in FLYING SAUCER DAFFY. Anyway, if you're gonna do a Stooges movie, hire Bruce Campbell (even in the perennial Emil Sitka role). Footnote: director Stuart Gordon predicted that Laurel and Hardy would be forgotten by "a new generation". I fumed and denied it. Goddam if he wasn't on the money. They're humor and effortless rapport is the BEST (referring to their Hal Roach collaborations) but I can't drag my own girlfriend to see their 2-reelers ("Black and white is boring"). Sad...sad and pathetic.
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Twenty years ago, I thought a Stooges-type movie should have been made starring Sam Kinison in the "Moe" role, Howie Mandel in the "Larry" role, and Bobcat Goldthwait in the "Curly" role. Not exact duplications of the originals, but similar in style. Not unlike that "Brain Donors" movie I mentioned earlier, and how it mimicked the Marx Brothers.
Twenty years later, I still think it would have worked. Then. Not now. Especially with Sam being slightly dead and all.
Currently, I'd suggest Steve Buscemi as "Moe," Paul Giamatti as "Larry," and just to get butts in the seats, Jack Black as "Curly." Cameo by Michael Richards as "Shemp." -
...where Kramer boinked all over an Entemann's and Elaine unknowingly passed it off to J Peterman as a vintage cake from the wedding of King Edward and Mrs. Simpson... whatever...
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OK, now that would be funny :)
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Please add THREE LITTLE BEERS to my list of Stooge favorites (a classic). God, how do I remember all of this stuff?
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Their slapstick was anarchic, as opposed to situational, and the dialog, while hilarious, was also cerebral.
When I was a kid, I always turned the channel when the Three Stooges was on and I always left the dial alone when the Marx Brothers was on.
As an adult, I still find Duck Soup one of the funniest movies ever made, whereas I cannot stand any Three Stooges.
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Farrely Brothers, you fucktards! How could you EVER achieve even a fraction of the greatness that was The Three Stooges without the old Stooges? This will flop. There's no way it wont. And nothing but Stooges shorts? Great, remake the exact same shit we've already seen and love the way it is! Dipshits.
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Says it all.
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"Keep on sucking 'til you do succeed." Curly in Movie Maniacs
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is one of the BEST, not to mention funniest, films ever made. Whenever Spike or some
another "hip" cable dump chronicles the "100 Greatest Comedies", DUCK SOUP and SONS OF THE DESERT are either ignored or exiled to the bottom of the list. Meanwhile, every Farrelly Bros. "comedy" is locked into the Top 25. Go figure. -
Picture it...see what I mean?
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In a fat suit.
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Now that was a decent attempt at modern 30-40's era comedys, like the Stooges and Marx Brothers. I'd love to get that shit on dvd
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From 1946's "Uncivil War Birds," after Curly says something uncharacteristically profound...
MOE: Brother, you-all ejaculated a mouthful!
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The censors were also asleep at the switch with GO WEST (Groucho: "Lulu, I didn't recognize you standing up") and BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE ("Aargh... Little Robin Red Breasts").
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then they should go all out and make The Three Stooges VS The Marx Brothers VS Laurel & Hardy VS Charlie Chaplin. Ruin every classic old time franchise in one movie.
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But, honestly, what 'best Stooges short' list is complete without A PLUMBING WE WILL GO?!
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W.C. Fields in "The Bank Dick". As a bank DICK, he is always most comfortable when he is inside the BLACK PUSSY Cafe, getting his ONE-EYE opener. Ahh, sexual innuendo at it's best. And Shemp Howard is the bartender.
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The token black stooge. It's only PC-fair you know. :))))
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Damn, I knew that I'd miss one. A PLUMBING is a Stooge classic (love the throwaway shot of Larry's head busting out of the front lawn {"I'll find that thing or else!"]. Ditto the black chef ["Dis house sho gone crazy!"]).
The "token" black Stooge? Tim Meadows, the most underrated member of the SNL ensemble (where's his "Best of--" DVD??). Meadows was among the best, along with Phil Hartman. He was brilliant as a funny or straight man (evokes Bud Abbott)--and Meadows is wayyyyy superior to everyone in the current SNL cast.
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