Casting call to reform Stooges

Barklessdog · March 26, 2009, 05:00:29 AM

The three stooges that is, Nuck, nuck, nuck

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/14606.html

Dave W · March 26, 2009, 10:43:43 AM

I can't imagine any chance of this being a success.

Does anyone in Hollywood ever have any new ideas?

Barklessdog · March 26, 2009, 11:23:12 AM

I can't believe Sean Penn would go anywhere near Jim Carry!

Dave W · March 26, 2009, 01:53:26 PM

And the thought of Benicio Del Toro playing Moe makes me shudder.

That would be the most brilliant casting decision since David Johansen as Gunther Toody in Car 54, Where Are You? (another brilliant Hollywood remake).

Rocker949 · March 26, 2009, 02:18:03 PM

Sean Penn doesn't have one tenth the comedic talent that Larry Fine had.

godofthunder · March 26, 2009, 03:13:28 PM

Quote from: Rocker949 on March 26, 2009, 02:18:03 PM
Sean Penn doesn't have one tenth the comedic talent that Larry Fine had.

Agreed ! They should leave this alone.

Pilgrim · March 27, 2009, 09:38:58 AM

I suspect that the reaction of those 25 and under will be somewhat different than that of us with grey hair. There is always a strong reaction (and I share it) in favor of the originals, but when you may not have seen the originals, your mind is more open.

I'm not even saying that's a good thing - just that it does happen.

Dave W · March 27, 2009, 09:43:25 AM

I don't think so. Nobody who isn't familiar with the real Stooges is going to be interested, regardless of age, and I can't see many of those people wanting to see an imitation.

Hell, Joe Besser's ghost would be better than Sean Penn.

Barklessdog · March 27, 2009, 10:14:21 AM

I still remember Curley Joe!

The memory burns!

Dave W · March 27, 2009, 04:20:15 PM

Curly Joe was Joe DeRita, the one who resembled Curly Howard. He came after Joe Besser, who joined after Shemp died.

Curly Joe was bad, Joe Besser was awful.

Pilgrim · March 27, 2009, 05:33:27 PM

Without someone who could do the right "nyuk-nyuk-nyuk", there would be no Stooges.

Highlander · March 27, 2009, 06:36:12 PM

Gent's... it could be worse... they could go for a biopic of the Marx Bros...

(fyi, not that that's worth 2 brass nickles... used to have 3 little furry creatures stuck to the top of my Hiwatt nicknamed "L,C&M", my "Good-Gig" charms- always favoured Larry's hairstyle, m'self...

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We used to have the "Saturday Morning Pictures" as our weekend entertainment as kids in the sixties and would often see their films, re-run... just don't make em like they used ta...

Pilgrim... I remember hair...

Sean Penn must be good for some comedic value, he was married to Madonna, after all...

Lightyear · March 27, 2009, 08:27:22 PM

"LARRY, MOE....CHEESE!!! NO ROUGFORT!!!"

Haven't seen one of these for years but I watched them on local TV every morning before school all the way up to higschool - bet I still can recite most of the lines!

Dave W · March 27, 2009, 09:23:48 PM

I just spent 5 minutes watching this, you tell me how Penn, Carrey and Del Toro could ever begin to come close.

Barklessdog · March 28, 2009, 04:48:56 AM

I dont think I can ever except anyone else as the three Stooges, although I did enjoy the mini series awile back (by Mel Gibson?) about their story. That was pretty insightfull