Farrelly Brothers Want Cher To Play A Nun In ‘The Three Stooges’
By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2011 4:30 pm EST
The LA Times talked to the directors, who praised Cher as they talked about wanting her for the role. (“Cher is just the coolest chick ever. It’s hard to describe. You meet a lot of celebrities in our business. We’re not cowed by many of them. But Cher is bawdy, she’s fun, she’s cool, she’s lived a life, she’s got experience, she’s humble.”) She’s not cast yet, but it’s
They say that Jim Carrey, once set to be Curly, dropped out without even calling them (ouch) but that Benicio Del Toro is still being considered. And there were rumors of Andy Samberg and Johnny Knoxville filling other Stooge shoes, and they’re not ruling those guys out, either.
If you missed other recent comments on the film, the brothers say that it is a straight-up Stooges movie:
The brothers also acknowledge the challenge of making new Stooges stories that are set in the present day featuring new actors but the same classic gags and tone. (Their movie is written as three connected half-hour shorts.)
This isn’t a Farrelly version of The Three Stooges. This is The Three Stooges. And, it’s not a biopic, by the way. We’ve written three new episodes. The movie is actually three episodes that go back to back to back. Each one picks up where the other one left off. We want you to look at it and say, “It’s Mo, Larry and Curly!,” so we have very high standards on this route.
What it comes down to is this: The Three Stooges, strange as it may seem, is their passion project. Says Peter Farrelly,
The Stooges themselves, we can’t beat. But I think we can beat the material. And it’s because they didn’t have a budget. We don’t have a huge budget, but they didn’t have anything. They were working on nothing. They were creating something out of thin air to put in the present day and put in the real world; updating it allows us to be better than they were.
I literally lie in bed thinking about every single shot. I’ve never been more prepared to do a movie in my life.
