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.