I don’t want to turn this into the all about the Three Stooges movie abomination blog, but come on, guys, if you’re gonna do it, at least give one role to Billy West, the guy who was born to ‘play’ Larry Fine.
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Billy West has been helping Sean Penn prepare for the part.
Billy does a great Larry, right down to the voice…you got my vote, but unfortunately, you know the saying – Billy has a face for radio…er, I mean…
“I’m walkin’ on sunshine…!”
Love ya, Billy!
(p.s. – wasn’t Stimpy based on Larry?)
I’ll agree-his Larry impression is uncanny-not to mention hillarious.
Yeah I saw this on Youtube ages ago and unfortunetly, he has no name in Hollywood. He once said in an interview he was banned from the premiere of Space Jam because the execs said he wasn’t an actor.
Keith: Yes it was.
How about a novel idea, NO ONE replacing Larry Fine & the Howard Brothers.
There was a straight to video flick a few years ago called “The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy” starring Bronson Pinchot as Stan (I hear it made Atoll K look like Sons of the Desert).
Didn’t the Fine & DeRita families win control of The Stooges licensing rights a few years ago?
I don’t care who they cast- a bad idea is a bad idea. I don’t care how good the impressions are, it’s not them. Look at it this way- Rich Little does a pretty good Humphrey Bogart, but would you pay to see him in a remake of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre? No, because it would be awful. A copy is a copy is a copy, and there is nothing especially interesting in a copy. Except maybe as a comparison study, and in every instance a copy will come up short. Better that it never be made. However, if it must be made, go the homage route and make it an animated film, like the Kirk Dougals characters voiced by the late Frank Gorshin for the short “The Big Story”.
Re: ‘Yeah I saw this on Youtube ages ago and unfortunetly, he has no name in Hollywood. He once said in an interview he was banned from the premiere of Space Jam because the execs said he wasn’t an actor.’
Billy West must have been “out of it” when he said that, because Dee Bradly Baker and Bob Bergen confirmed that that the three of them were in fact at the premiere of Space Jam. West and Baker were initially the only two of the voice actors allowed to come, but West’s wife gave up her guest invitation for Bob Bergen
John A:
I think most of here know that you can’t replicate the originals but this thread is about if it you are going to recast a great part, no matter how offensive the idea is, just do it right.
I have to ask – who do they think is gonna go see this? Stooges fans? People who have no idea who the Stooges were, but think Penn & Del Toro are funny? WTF times ten.
“He once said in an interview he was banned from the premiere of Space Jam because the execs said he wasn’t an actor.”
The more I hear about the behind-the-scenes problems of that movie, the less respect I have for it.
Brandon: I didn’t know that.
Ricardo: I’m sorry, but even as an intellectual excercise, there are some instances that are just so flat out wrong and offensive that any answer would be a bad answer, it’s like making a list of the people you’d most like to rape your grandmother. I hope everyone involved in this travesty in progress will stop and reconsider, and maybe even reevaluate their lives.
Scene: A boardroom in some faceless entertainment corporation
Exec 1: So we’ve done Bewitched, The Beverly Hillbillies and Get Smart. Is there anything left with some recognition that’s old and was on TV we can milk?
Exec 2: Well, my dad said the Three Stooges were big when he was a kid.
Exec 1: Stooges! Great. I think I saw them once. They were funny, right?
Exec 3: I’ve never heard of them.
Exec 2: Oh, that’s going to be a problem. How are we going to get people to watch a movie about people they’ve never heard of.
Toady 1: Do what all those other rehashes did. Pump it with some big name comedians. Guys who get a laugh just by walking on screen. Maybe that Adam somebody.
Exec 4: Nah. He’s got his own company and will want a cut. How about Jim Carrey?
Toady 2: Does he look like any of them?
Exec 1: Who cares? Stooges fans will see it because they’re nuts about anything Stooges. Everyone else will come for the big names. Think we can work a brooding teenaged vampire into it to get the female demographic?
Exec 3: Get me marketing. We’ll worry about a script later.
How close do you think I am?
Jim
John A.: My only solace that monkeys are infact behind all this. No rational humans can be this stupid, right ?…
Right ? :( *sob*
Jim B. : Yes Bewitched, what fantastic idea. Make a film about remaking a show. Also, you forgot The Honeymooners with the ground breaking idea of an all black cast.
O.K.,If something this horrible MUST be made, Tim Kazurinsky from SNL would probably make an excellent Moe, and I just recently saw a repeat of Kevin James’ standup act, and I noticed what a fine physical comedian he was for such a heavy guy. Plus he can really act well with his face, something that Carey covered with fat makeup could never duplicate. Aside from the fact that I just hate him anyway, Jim Carey is all wrong for the part, no matter how much weight he puts on. Heavy people just move differently from thin people, they’ve spent most of their lives moving that excess mass around- watch a physical comic like Jakie Gleason and compare him to footage of Dick Van Dyke in his prime. both of them use their bodies differently to get laughs.
OK, all ready.
Spend the $250 million on this turkey, release it and then let it go straight to the 2/$11 bin at WAL*MART. It will be in the pile with Bewitched, Honeymooners, McHales Navy, Car 54 Where Are You, Dragnet, Underdog, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Leave It To Beaver, Dennis The Menace and the other bazillion remakes that are eluding me right now…
Craig:
I work at Wal-Mart and all those shitty films are the dust collectors.
Ricardo: I was wondering what they were good for! Though I though dust had more self respect than that…
This is what I meant about reevaluating their lives. If a person is spending millions of dollars of invested money on something that ultimately sells fewer copies than the $5 Spanish language DVDs, that person needs to be barred from making movies for life, and they should probably be fined for standing within 50 feet of a camera.