Monday, August 10
In an interview with The Boston Globe, director Peter Farrelly announced a new casting decision for The Three Stooges, which he is directing with brother Bobby Farrelly. Paul Giamatti (Sideways, American Splendor) will play Larry, replacing Sean Penn who withdrew from the movie two months ago. Giamatti will star opposite Benicio del Toro as Moe.
Jim Carrey was rumored to star as Curly, but the Farrelly Brothers confirm that this is not true, and they have not yet cast anyone in the role.
Posted 8/10/2009 by Rich Z
Related: Paul Giamatti | Sean Penn | The Three Stooges
Wednesday, June 17
Variety reports that Sean Penn announced he will pull out of two projects for unspecified personal reasons related to family.
Penn will no longer star in Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly's The Three Stooges, in which he was to play Larry opposite Jim Carrey as Curly and Benicio Del Toro as Moe. He also withdrew from Cartel. In the Asger Leth-directed drama, scripted by Peter Craig, a man struggles to protect his son after his wife is killed in the world of Mexican drug cartels.
It is unclear how long Penn will be on hiatus. Prior to the announcement, he had already completed two other projects, which should still see release. The first is Fair Game, the Doug Liman-directed biopic based on the memoir of CIA agent ValeriePlame (with Naomi Watts in the starring role). The other is The Tree of Life, which stars Brad Pitt and was directed by Terrence Malick (The New World, The Thin Red Line).
Posted 6/17/2009 by Rich Z
Related: Sean Penn | The Three Stooges
Thursday, March 26
Directors Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly finally found a home for their Three Stooges movie at MGM last year, and it looks like they have finally put together a surprising cast for the movie..
Variety reports that Jim Carrey will play heavier Stooge Curly, and will gain 40 pounds for the role. With Carrey's history in comedies, this isn't as surprising as the next two choices: Academy Award winners Sean Penn as Larry and Benicio Del Toro as Moe.
While neither Penn or Del Toro are strangers to comedies, Penn played the iconoclastic surfer Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Del Toro has made subtle comic turns in both The Usual Suspects and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, however, they are hardly two names that typically come to mind when thinking of the slapstick comedy of The Three Stooges.
The Stooges movie is not a biopic but a complete remake, with a script by the Farrellys, which Bobby described as "Dumb, Dumber & Dumbest." The Farrellys will start shooting this fall for a 2010 release.
Posted 3/26/2009 by Ryan
Related: Benicio Del Toro | Bobby Farrelly | Peter Farrelly | Sean Penn | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | The Usual Suspects | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Jim Carrey | The Three Stooges