This is really scary.

Yeah, I'm having a hard time seeing it...

"Angsty"?

Once again, Shemp gets the shaft.

Johnny Depp was a rumoured choice as well. If any of these casting choices are true I will give it a chance.

As I recalled a lot of people thought Heath Ledger wasn't right for the role of The Joker in Dark Knight but Ledger proved all the naysayers wrong.

Pacino for Shemp, I'm starting the petition now.

I enjoyed Mel Gibson's version with Chiklis.

I have never liked the Three Stooges. I give these guys permission to make a movie and fuck up the franchise. Hell, they've done it stuff I LIKE, so ...

LOVE the Three Stooges. Watched them religiously as a kid.

I would pay eight bucks to see somebody twist Sean Penn's nose with a pair of pliers, poke him in both eyes, and tear chunks of hair from his scalp.

Zac Snyder's Three Stooges.

I did, too. But Chiklis was playing Jerome Howard, not Curly Stooge.

I can't believe that Carrey would even consider trying to pass himself off as a "Stooge." Why doesn't he make another Ace Ventura movie instead?

Any Stooge films after Shemp just don't do it for me. Joe Besser and Curly Joe De Rita were the shark bait.

I don't believe the article, nor shall I until they release footage.

I was a Curly fan all the way as a kid, if a Shemp episode popped up I felt gypped. Later on I learned to appreciate Shemp and Curly Joe. Joe Besser was just a mistake, he never meshed with Moe and Larry. But, I saw a piece of their nightclub act with Curly Joe and he was hilarious, it's too bad there's only snippets of that as everything else they did with him was pointed down at kids and not very good. They toured that nightclub act all over to packed houses, pretty much until Larry had his stroke and they fell apart. Moe was a weekend away from signing one of their long time straight men/company players, Emil Sitka, to play the middle stooge when he died and brought the era of the Stooges to an end.

The secret to the Stooges shorts was the sound effects. All that realistic violence with the cartoon sound track made it unreal and therefor funny. The way Wyle E. Coyote falling off a cliff is funny.

Del Toro actually looks the part for Moe. That could work.

I can see it... although Carrey will obviously have to have some "fat-guy make-up" to play Curly. I'm sure the movie will address Shemp.

Anybody remember "Fridays" a superior SNL on ABC a while back.
They had the best 3 Stooges. I don't remember who, except for Larry David as Larry.

Yes. They did a weird "New Wave druggies" take on the Stooges. I think there was a third sketch besides these two:

Thank you, Milady.
It's been too long since I've enjoyed those.
Great seeing them again.

I don't know if Fridays was superior -- it's generally written off as a second rate rip off of SNL.

But then again, I haven't seen it since it originally aired. It's probably superior to today's SNL, to be sure.

It did fairly well in the ratings compared to SNL (which was at its low point). The ratings didn't last though. It was pulled after a couple of years. I'd put it up against one or two of the weaker years of SNL, but not the current cast when they have a decent host.

I was gonna come into this thread to say that this would suck ass then leave to never return, but if the Farrely brothers do it I'd give it a shot. They're the only directors whom I think would have any chance of pulling this off, all that said I doubt this is real.

And I really hope that if this is real they don't go all fat suit on Jim Carrey, it's just not necessary.