Johnny Depp And Sean Penn As Part of The Three Stooges?!?

[Brian Damage]

Johnny Depp could be starring in the upcoming film adaptation of The Three Stooges, reports In Touch.

The 45-year-old actor could soon be poking Sean Penn in the eye in the Farrelly brothers’ forthcoming comedy.

“They want Johnny to play Moe and Sean Penn will be Larry — they’re still looking to cast Curly,” an insider says.

The Farrelly brothers will work on the Stooges movie after filming Walter the Farting Dog with the Jonas Brothers this spring.

Johnny may have to get a Moe bowl haircut!

http://intouchweekly.com/

http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/02/04/johnny-depp-three-stooges/

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/

:stooges:

[catlover79]

This...should be interesting. :eek: :crazy:

[Marvo301]

This...should be interesting. :eek: :crazy:
interesting indeed...nyuk,nyuk,nyuk

[comedyfreak]

hehehehe can't wait to see how it comes out. Michael Chicklis can reprise his role as curly, he played the part in the made for tv movie a few years ago.

[catlover79]

interesting indeed...nyuk,nyuk,nyuk
My dad has always called his three kids the three stooges. Wiseguy, huh?? Woo woo woo!!! :stooges:

[Zoneboy]

Link (http://www.variety.com/VR1118001643.html)

MGM and the Farrelly brothers are closing in on their cast for "The Three Stooges."
Studio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, and negotiations are underway with Jim Carrey to play Curly, with the actor already making plans to gain 40 pounds to approximate the physical dimensions of Jerome "Curly" Howard.

The studio is zeroing in on Benicio Del Toro to play Moe.

The film is not a biopic, but rather a comedy built around the antics of the three characters that Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Howard played in the Columbia Pictures shorts.

The quest by the Peter and Bobby Farrelly to harness the project spans more than a decade and three studios. They first tried at Columbia, again at Warner Bros., and finally at MGM, where Worldwide Motion Picture Group chairman Mary Parent championed the cause and bought the WB-owned scripts and made a deal with Stooges rights holders C3.

Production will begin in early fall for a release sometime in 2010. The Farrellys, who wrote the script, are producing with their Conundrum partner Bradley Thomas, and Charlie Wessler.

C3 Entertainment principals Earl and Robert Benjamin will be executive producers.

Project will get underway after Penn completes the Asger Leth-directed Universal/Imagine Entertainment drama "Cartel." He hasn't done a comedy since the 1989 laffer "We're No Angels."

The Farrellys have long had their eyes on Del Toro to play Moe. Del Toro, who's coming off "Che," showed comic chops in the Guy Ritchie-directed "Snatch."

The surprise is the emergence of Carrey to play Curly. Howard established the character as a seminal physical comedian, from the first time he appeared in the first Stooges short in 1934 until he suffered a stroke on the set in 1946.

[robyrob]

and let me guess - with Ben Stiller as "Shemp" ?

[MonarC]

With Johnny Depp on board it should be a great movie! :D

[Zoneboy]

With Johnny Depp on board it should be a great movie! :D

Depp may be out if they get Benicio Del Toro

[MonarC]

Well if that's true the movie just got a lot less appealing.

[catlover79]

and let me guess - with Ben Stiller as "Shemp" ?
Please, no!! :eek: :lol:

[comedyfreak]

Link (http://www.variety.com/VR1118001643.html)
The film is not a biopic, but rather a comedy built around the antics of the three characters that Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Howard played in the Columbia Pictures shorts.


This may be good since it's different from the Biopic that had Michael Chiklis
playing Curley Howard. But we'll see........

[Cactus Jack]

There's Something About Larry should still be the title

[robyrob]

There's Something About Larry should still be the title
when are you gonna update the SNL schedule in your signature - I keep thinking its gonna be a rerun because of you!