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Farrellys Nyuk-Nyuking It
Moe, Larry and Curly are taking their act back to the big screen, courtesy of some other wise guys, the Farrelly brothers.
Peter and Bobby Farrelly have officially signed on to direct Warner Bros.' The Three Stooges, a feature comedy that will set the classic slap-happy trio in the present day.
"It's true," says Warners spokeswoman Stacy Ivers. "They have been developing this [with us]."
The new film will feature actors playing the original vaudevillian--Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Jerome "Curly" Howard (that's bad news for fans of substitute Stooges Shemp, Joe DiRita and Joe Besser).
Based on the dozens of two-reel shorts the original Stooges made for Columbia (and which continue to unspool in syndication), the Farrellys' Three Stooges will showcase all the trio's trademark slapstick, including the nose-pulling, face-slapping, eye-poking bits and Curly's classic nyuk-nyukking head-slapping bulldog act.
The Stooges' unique brand of cartoonish humor has had a big influence on the Farrellys' oeuvre, informing such flicks as the brothers' Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary and Me, Myself and Irene.
The Farrellys are currently huddling with writer Mike Cerrone to work on a script updating the Stooges' shtick.
No word yet who'll play Moe, Larry and Curly, though Emmy-winning The Shield star Michael Chiklis played Curly in a 2000 TV biopic. We'd like to nominate Mel Gibson for Moe, considering the actor's hammy homage to the boys in Lethal Weapon; Gibson has also expressed interest in the adapting the Stooges before.
Rights for the project were initially owned by Columbia Pictures parent Sony, but the studio allowed them to expire, and Warner Bros., desperate for a comedy hit, quickly snapped them up.
This will be the second time the Farrellys, who normally release their films via 20th Century Fox under their Conundrum production banner, are working for Warner Bros. The siblings set up the animated Chris Rock vehicle Osmosis Jones at the studio in 2001.
The Farrellys' latest, Stuck on You, a comedy starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as conjoined twins, is due December 12. After that, the filmmaking siblings are slated to produce The Ringer, a farce featuring Jackass alum Johnny Knoxville playing a guy who pretends to be mentally challenged so he can win gold at the Special Olympics.
They are also preparing their first foray into television, producing and directing a pilot for a new half-hour Fox comedy tentatively titled Who the Hell is Ricky Blitt?. The project will reunite them with Something About Mary star Cameron Diaz, who has agreed to make a guest appearance on the show.
As for The Three Stooges, if all goes well with the script, the Farrellys expect to start filming early next year for release in summer 2005.
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