OT- I hope this never materializes. Stooge-related

[jonmayo15]

Why?
http://www.variety.com/VR1118001643.html

[Matthew Hunter]

http://toolooney.goldenagecartoons.com/images/screencaps/wiletrolley.jpg

[Bugsy-Kun]

Gawd! Why they don't make something from their own?
And Jim Carrey played on this besides! :mad:

[ohmahaaha]

Oh my God what a trainwreck that would be ... I'll believe it when I see it as far as Penn goes, anyway ... the kind of scripts he's probably getting you can't tell me he stopped at this one.

[Niagara Fool]

Well, they've already tarnished the memory of both Laurel and Hardy (anyone remember that god-awful tv movie with Bronson Pinchot?) as well as the Little Rascals, so I guess it's now the Three Stooges turn.

I'll be taking a pass on this, and continue to enjoy the current Sony DVD releases...

[nickramer]

They can't just adapted vintage Hollywood stars like they were books. That's like having someone imatate Humphrey Bogart the whole time in a "Casablanca" remake (:bugs2: : "Don't get any ideas, Doc!").

Why couldn't they do a biography film instead?

[Daws Butler Jr.]

I almost can't imagine worse casting than this. Compared to Jim Carrey, Curly was subtle. I think casting three women in these parts would be more appropriate than these three guys. Yuck!

[Jack G.]

I heard about the Farley brothers working on this years ago.
I was hoping that the project got lost in Development_Hell. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_hell)

The Three Stooges were a product of their time. And that time has past.
People just aren't capable of producing this kind of thing.
I certainly hope it doesn't have the success that the new version of the Pink Panther has. :(

[tristar]

No, No, THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Can't Hollywood come up with their own ideas anymore?
Oh well, here comes the big fart-joke movie of 2010.

[tristar]

Well, they've already tarnished the memory of both Laurel and Hardy (anyone remember that god-awful tv movie with Bronson Pinchot?)... I sure don't... and I'm glad!

[Matt the Y]

I just hope that some sort of event (ANY event) happens during the course of this film's production that puts a monkey wrench in the works and permanently prevents this film from ever being completed or being released to the innocent public, moviegoers, and millions of Stooges fans worldwide. All of these people must be spared this abysmal, horrific abomination! The entire 90 minute reel of wasted film must, repeat MUST, be left on the cutting room floor (and then have the entire movie studio come in and relieve themselves on it after developing a serious diarrhea virus)!

Bobby & Peter Farrelly, you've done enough damage in this film world with your previous films. Do NOT touch the Three Stooges. Even the Joe Besser Stooges shorts are better than the most entertaining of your so-called "comedy" movies! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Glowworm]

Turning a classic cartoon into a live action movie is bad enough-but you can't just take three famous actors and turn them into three (even more famous) actors. It just isn't going to work. Why do I have the feeling that this movie would be rated either PG 13 or R and full of unfunny sex jokes and bodily functions-not to mention the addition of a kick to the groin besides the usual eye-poking and head bashing?


I pray that this doesn't get made-much like that possible Marvin the Martian 3-D movie-I haven't heard anything about that awful idea since.

[larriva9/11]

Years ago, I thought Pauly Shore would make a perfect Larry in a Stooges remake.

Maybe that's the problem here; they aren't stooping to a Pauly Shore level. They forgot: the Stooges are meant to be lowbrow, not middlebrow.

[Bradskey]

:eek: If this travesty happens I'll just curl up in a fetal position locked in my study and watch the real stooges, all of whose shorts I will own before long anyway.

[Geezil]

http://toolooney.goldenagecartoons.com/images/screencaps/wiletrolley.jpg

Amen, brother!!!!!!!!!!

[That 70s Mom]

Turning a classic cartoon into a live action movie is bad enough-but you can't just take three famous actors and turn them into three (even more famous) actors. .

Why not just kill 2 birds with 1 stone and make "Three Robonic Stooges: The Movie" :rolleyes:

[cartoonfan4ever]

This is sad news indeed. And Sean Penn?? OOOOKay.

[LTS]

Three no-name actors would've been better than the three actors in this film, well, not making the film would've been better. Besides how can you remake people? Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard were people, they werent stage names. :rolleyes:

We'll probably get some sort of "This film is based on a true story" kind of crap before the film.

I wont be watching it, not even out of curiosity.

[Matt the Y]

How can anyone even take the Farrelly brothers seriously enough to be able to touch a project like this on a theater screen with a ten-foot pole? Latter-day movie + Farrelly Brothers + Three Stooges + "Modern" 2000's decade-era humor - actual comedy that makes people & audiences laugh = GREAT BIG FAILURE!!!!!!!!!!

And that's the worst kind! But, hey, at least the graves of Moe, Larry, and Curly will be nice and warm after being heated up real good from their spinning corpses!

[Bradskey]

Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard were people, they werent stage names. :rolleyes:

Well, they were stage names, or stage versions of their actual names, but your point still stands. :D

[AnthroCoon]

A friend of mine was having a moving sale and I tossed him a few bucks and picked up, among other things, a book called the Three Stooges Scrapbook (1982). It mentioned that Moe's son-in-law Norman Maurer co-produced Robonic Stooges and Norman also did a bunch of
Stooge comic books. He pitched the idea (for TV) of the Stooges as little kids (the
same age as the Peanuts gang) and also pitched teenaged "sons of the Stooges" as a rock band--these did show up as comic books, though--and a company called Fine Arts productions suggested a cartoon series with
them as super heroes, "Super Stooges" but Norman Maurer Productions turned it down.

So there COULD have been a TV series with teen versions of Moe, Larry,
and Curly having Monkee-esque adventures, but...didn't come to pass.

[larriva9/11]

So there COULD have been a TV series with teen versions of Moe, Larry,
and Curly having Monkee-esque adventures, but...didn't come to pass.

Or, rather, Moe, Larry, and Curly-Joe. Which is why it's just as well that it didn't come to pass.

[LTS]

Well, they were stage names, or stage versions of their actual names, but your point still stands. :D

Touche! :) I should've said character names. :cool:

[Don59]

Don't these movie gurus realize you just can't remake classic movies or TV shows and find success. Look at films based on The Little Rascals, The Pink Panther, Bewitched, The Honeymooners, The Flintstones, etc. Most of these were flops or just barely watchable. To think that anyone could duplicate the comic genius of the Three Stooges, especially Curly Howard, is out of their mind. The casting is so absurd it's almost funny. Sean Penn as Larry Fine and Jim Carrey as Curly Howard? I don't even know the guy they want to play Moe Howard. The whole project needs a triple slap across the face.

Vernon Dent: "How do you wish to die, having your head chopped off or burning at the stake?"
Curly: "We'll take burning at the stake!"
Moe: "You idiot, why did you say that for?"
Curly: "'Cause a hot steak is better than a cold chop.......NYUK NYUK NYUK!"
From "Three Little Pirates" (1946)

[AnthroCoon]

Well, the pix reproduced in the book say "Curly" not Curly Joe although the "Curly"
char does resemble Curly Joe a bit more.
http://www.3-stooges.com/comics/comics.html

Look for the Little Stooges covers, about 2/3rds of the way down the page

A bigger image can be found here
http://image2.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/48618056648.6.GIF

Again, billed as "Curly" not Curly Joe

[Shemp]

Well, the pix reproduced in the book say "Curly" not Curly Joe although the "Curly"
char does resemble Curly Joe a bit more.
http://www.3-stooges.com/comics/comics.html

Look for the Little Stooges covers, about 2/3rds of the way down the page

A bigger image can be found here
http://image2.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/48618056648.6.GIF

Again, billed as "Curly" not Curly Joe

- Moe, Larry & Curly - 1949 Jubilee/St. John series, 2 issues

- Moe, Larry & Shemp - 1953 - 1954 St. John series, 7 issues

- Moe, Larry & Curly Joe - 1959 - 1972 Western Publ. series, aka Dell, Gold Key, Whitman and K.K., 55 issues of "4 Color Comics" and "The Three Stooges"; plus additional releases as "Comic Album," "March of Comics," "Top Comics" and movie adaptations of THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT and THE THREE STOOGES MEET HERCULES

- Moe Jr., Larry Jr. & Curly Joe Jr. (and Sr.'s) - 1972 - 1974 Western Publ.'s "The Little Stooges," 7 issues. Although it says "Curly" on a couple of the covers, that was just a marketing ploy to capitalize on the general perception of the Stooges as "Moe, Larry and Curly." The character is based on Joe DeRita, and is referred to as "Curly Joe" throughout the stories themselves.

The Three Stooges Comicography (http://threestooges.net/comicography.php)
- Comprehensive index of Three Stooges comic books, 1949 - 1992, with hundreds of scans of covers and story splash pages.
- For Abbott & Costello fans, the same info and images are indexed for the 1948 - 1956 and 1968 - 1971 comic books published by St. John and Charlton.

[A. Flea]

Chey as a Stooge? Did they pick 3 random actors out of a hat and give 'em the parts?!

I'd pick Johnny Vegas (he at least looks a BIT like Curly, and is convincingly fat enough to do it)

Jean Wilder could have done Larry if he was a bit younger.

I dunno about Moe though.

[Bradskey]

Jean Wilder could have done Larry if he was a bit younger.


I'm a huge Gene Wilder fan. Love his movies and his characters. Even love his narcissism and ego, for the same reason everybody loves Bill Shatner, because he's an egomaniac and we love him for it. lol. I guess he had the frizzy hair and maybe the voice, but I'm not sure Gene could be Larry, too much intelligence in his eyes and expressions. Larry gets overlooked a lot -- I wouldn't go overboard like some and say he's the greatest stooge, but he has moments that are brilliantly funny if subtle. But they're all so great, and these jokers and their awful "remake" [sic] will make Joe Besser look like one of the beloved four.

[Der Captain]

I would have pegged Sean Penn for Moe, especially early in his career. Couldn't you just see him holding out his fist to a photographer and saying "Hit this, numbskull!"?