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Carrey-Free "Ventura" Sequel Coming
All righty then.
If you thought you 2003's Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd and 2005's Son of the Mask were a gas, you're gonna love the next Jim Carrey-less sequel Hollywood's got coming.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Morgan Creek Productions has initiated development on a third Ace Ventura--the franchise that launched the professional goofball from In Living Color skits to big-screen superstardom.
Only don't count on Carrey reprising his role as the oddball pet hunter with a penchant for channeling animal behavior. Reps for the funnyman weren't available for comment, but Carey is not involved in the project, per the Reporter.
The Santa Monica-based film company has tapped screenwriter Jeff Sank and sibling scribes Jason and Justin Heimberg to pen the next installment that will predictably focus on the screwball gumshoe's son who takes over the family business and will round out a trilogy that began with 1994's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective followed by 1995's Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. The first two films both starred Carrey and were produced by Morgan Creek and directed by Tom Shadyac.
The original grossed $72 million in domestic ticket sales, while its follow-up fared even better, tallying $108 million. (The franchise was also spun off into TV 'toon, with Michael Bell voicing the title role, that ran on CBS from 1995 to 1997.)
But if history repeats itself, the third Ventura movie could end up being a money looo-ser.
With Carrey aboard making the funny, Dumb and Dumber earned $127 million and The Mask, $119 million domestically. By comparison, the Carrey-devoid prequel Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd scraped up $26 million and Son of the Mask, an ill-fated experiment starring Jamie Kennedy in lieu of Carrey, raked in $17 million.
Or to put it in Ace Ventura terms, those dogs didn't hunt.
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