I can deal with Hank as Moe, and Sasso as Curly. Marsden is an interesting choice. I, personally, don't see it, but perhaps I'll be surprised.

Hank Azaria and Will Sasso seem like solid casting choices.

James Marsden as Larry?! I can't say that I can make sense of that, but I said the same thing about Heath Ledger taking on the role of the Joker, so... we'll see.

I suspect that this is going to be a highly anticipated and hotly debated movie that will result in a resounding "meh" when it actually comes out.

ne2d: I suspect that this is going to be a highly anticipated and hotly debated movie that will result in a resounding "meh" when it actually comes out.

Kind of like your homemade porno?

strangeguitar: I can deal with Hank as Moe, and Sasso as Curly. Marsden is an interesting choice. I, personally, don't see it, but perhaps I'll be surprised.

^

Sasso's one of my favorites from MadTV. Hank Azaria is a comedy god. James Marsden... *shrugs*.

Quote Nancy Kerrigan:

WHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYY????
WHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYY????

Hank Azaria is hysterical. He was the only thing good about Night at the Museum 2, and funny as shiat in America's Sweethearts. "Who am I? I am the ass kicker of you." lol

Larry: WTF?!?

The only way this would interest me is if they found a way to get the originals back. It would be terrifying, but at least interesting.

The problem is that too many people today would be uncomfortable with someone completely re-doing an idea. So, we just have to have Star Trek with people who remind us of Shatner, Nimoy, Kelley, et al and we just have to have people that remind us of the Stooges.

It's bullshiat.

Just let people play a role. If you walk in expecting a carbon copy of the old stories then you should stay the fark home and watch old stories.

aren't they all rather tall to be playing the stooges? Aside from the pure comedy gold that is the stooges (Moe, Larry, Shemp, and Curly; the other 2 farkwads had no business being included in that list), one of the things I liked was how short they all were.

Sasso is good, as is Azaria. The other guy not so much.

Three people that I...don't hate, to varying degrees.

Hell, Hank Azaria was the best thing about Spamalot. And I've never seen him do a shiatty role before. I haven't seen The Smurfs yet, of course, but I expect him to be good in the way Chow Yun-Fat was good in the Dragon Ball movie.

I dunno, I guess I'm gonna see this movie, my expectations are low, so maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Is Sasso a fat piece of crap again? Otherwise, he hasn't been remotely funny since he lost the weight.

This is not the same as recasting Kirk or Spock. It's not the same as recasting Superman, or Samantha from Bewitched, or The Little Tramp (I mean Charles Chaplin's character; not Lindsey Lohan). It's not even like recasting Martin & Lewis in any of their buddy pictures.

This is more like recasting Laurel & Hardy, or Abbot & Costello, or The Marx Brothers. They WERE their characters.

Will Sasso is not, and never will be Jerome "Curly" Howard. He can play Jerome Howard in a biopic, but he can't replace Curly, because Curly is not just a role; Curly is the man.

`Same for Moe and Larry, too.

Doing this is like having someone step into Jerry Lewis' role in the MDA telethon, but having this new guy call himself "Jerry Lewis."

It's like remaking Seinfeld and casting someone new to play Jerry Seinfeld. You can't do that. Seinfeld is Seinfeld. That's all there is to it.

Moe was Moe. Nobody else can "play" Moe because Moe WAS Moe.

Argh. This is all maddening.

I'd go with Jack Zalifackus for Larry, Adam Sandler for Moe, and Jonah Hill for Curly.

Done and done

Do writers even exist anymore?

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: I'd go with Jack Zalifackus for Larry, Adam Chandler for Moe, and Jonah Hill for Curly.

Done and done

FTFY

They already did a Three Stooges movie with that guy from "The Shield". We don't need another one.

I had always assumed this was a bio-pic, but no, it's a 3 part sketch movie that clocks in at less than 90 minutes. So it's 3 modern day actors playing the roles of 3 classic comics. It's the equivalent of a bar cover band playing "Honky Tonk Woman" and trying to convince you they're the Rolling Stones.

Don't worry. This cast has been changing every month anyway. April is almost here, and with the current trend what we will see by June is that the cast will be Gilbert Gottfried, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Gallagher.

This movie will never (and should never) happen.

That Wasn't a Fart: Do writers even exist anymore?

There exist two (some-value-of-original) scripts for every person currently residing in Los Angeles County.

The spineless risk-averse hacks currently employed in the corporate boardrooms of present-day Hollywood are (to understate) extremely reluctant to produce those scripts because they don't have what the hacks view as the built-in audience awareness of remakes and adaptations.

Those same hacks' fear of producing flops (and, thus, the fear of loss of their comfy positions of employment) means that very damn little is going to be made that isn't already a pre-existing known brand.

I've no interest in seeing this film.

Is Portland the black guy?

chewielouie: Hank Azaria is hysterical. He was the only thing good about Night at the Museum 2

I thought the best part was Amy Adams's ass.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Hank Azaria and Will Sasso seem like solid casting choices.

James Marsden as Larry?! I can't say that I can make sense of that, but I said the same thing about Heath Ledger taking on the role of the Joker, so... we'll see.

Sounds about right to me. Not that I care that much about this whole project, but two thirds of the casting is solid and Marsden...well, we'll see.

JosephFinn: Sounds about right to me. Not that I care that much about this whole project, but two thirds of the casting is solid and Marsden...well, we'll see.

The guy's got comedic chops... I just don't know if he'd be right for the role of Larry.

As for the movie itself... I don't think it'll be anything exceptional, but I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and the price of a weekend matinee ticket.

i'm happy for will sasso

he's been extremely underused by hollywood

I thought they meant Jason Marsden, at least he can act.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: JosephFinn: Sounds about right to me. Not that I care that much about this whole project, but two thirds of the casting is solid and Marsden...well, we'll see.

The guy's got comedic chops... I just don't know if he'd be right for the role of Larry.

As for the movie itself... I don't think it'll be anything exceptional, but I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and the price of a weekend matinee ticket.

He is quite funny in Enchanted, to be sure.

ZeroCorpse: This is not the same as recasting Kirk or Spock. It's not the same as recasting Superman, or Samantha from Bewitched, or The Little Tramp (I mean Charles Chaplin's character; not Lindsey Lohan). It's not even like recasting Martin & Lewis in any of their buddy pictures.

This is more like recasting Laurel & Hardy, or Abbot & Costello, or The Marx Brothers. They WERE their characters.

Will Sasso is not, and never will be Jerome "Curly" Howard. He can play Jerome Howard in a biopic, but he can't replace Curly, because Curly is not just a role; Curly is the man.

`Same for Moe and Larry, too.

Doing this is like having someone step into Jerry Lewis' role in the MDA telethon, but having this new guy call himself "Jerry Lewis."

It's like remaking Seinfeld and casting someone new to play Jerry Seinfeld. You can't do that. Seinfeld is Seinfeld. That's all there is to it.

Moe was Moe. Nobody else can "play" Moe because Moe WAS Moe.

Argh. This is all maddening.

No. They were men playing characters. Granted, characters that had been carefully crafted over years and years of vaudeville work but characters nonetheless.

mitchcumstein1: HawgWild: I don't care who you cast, this is just not a good idea ...

This is the correct answer.


Yes indeed.

I had to google Marsden and I must agree he doesn't seem the type to play Larry. As a bio pic it might work but it has been done already.

mat catastrophe: ZeroCorpse: This is not the same as recasting Kirk or Spock. It's not the same as recasting Superman, or Samantha from Bewitched, or The Little Tramp (I mean Charles Chaplin's character; not Lindsey Lohan). It's not even like recasting Martin & Lewis in any of their buddy pictures.

This is more like recasting Laurel & Hardy, or Abbot & Costello, or The Marx Brothers. They WERE their characters.

Will Sasso is not, and never will be Jerome "Curly" Howard. He can play Jerome Howard in a biopic, but he can't replace Curly, because Curly is not just a role; Curly is the man.

`Same for Moe and Larry, too.

Doing this is like having someone step into Jerry Lewis' role in the MDA telethon, but having this new guy call himself "Jerry Lewis."

It's like remaking Seinfeld and casting someone new to play Jerry Seinfeld. You can't do that. Seinfeld is Seinfeld. That's all there is to it.

Moe was Moe. Nobody else can "play" Moe because Moe WAS Moe.

Argh. This is all maddening.

No. They were men playing characters. Granted, characters that had been carefully crafted over years and years of vaudeville work, and based on their own personalities and experiences but characters nonetheless.

There, FTFY.

L_Ron_Jeremy: Larry: WTF?!?

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: I'd go with Jack Zalifackus for Larry, Adam Sandler for Moe, and Jonah Hill for Curly.

Done and done

I'm willing to bet the filmmakers would be willing to accept that as well.

Ladies and Gentleman, your Moe.

But hey, the Farrelly's have put out decent stuff with lesser actors...

I saw the name, and was really wondering why they had cast Spike from Buffy as one of the stooges. Was I the only idiot that did this?

(checks the comments above)

Yep...looks like.

ZeroCorpse: mat catastrophe: ZeroCorpse: This is not the same as recasting Kirk or Spock. It's not the same as recasting Superman, or Samantha from Bewitched, or The Little Tramp (I mean Charles Chaplin's character; not Lindsey Lohan). It's not even like recasting Martin & Lewis in any of their buddy pictures.

This is more like recasting Laurel & Hardy, or Abbot & Costello, or The Marx Brothers. They WERE their characters.

Will Sasso is not, and never will be Jerome "Curly" Howard. He can play Jerome Howard in a biopic, but he can't replace Curly, because Curly is not just a role; Curly is the man.

`Same for Moe and Larry, too.

Doing this is like having someone step into Jerry Lewis' role in the MDA telethon, but having this new guy call himself "Jerry Lewis."

It's like remaking Seinfeld and casting someone new to play Jerry Seinfeld. You can't do that. Seinfeld is Seinfeld. That's all there is to it.

Moe was Moe. Nobody else can "play" Moe because Moe WAS Moe.

Argh. This is all maddening.

No. They were men playing characters. Granted, characters that had been carefully crafted over years and years of vaudeville work, and based on their own personalities and experiences but characters nonetheless.

There, FTFY.

No, you've actually inserted content that has no real basis in fact. Unless, of course, it's a biography that I haven't read. Can you cite chapter and verse?

I doubt seriously that Moe Howard was a short tempered, belligerent, and scheming man intent on sacrificing his dignity and the well-being of his brothers for short term profit (which, as near as I remember, is the plot of about 90 percent of Stooges shorts).

In fact, that version of Moe came about only after Ted Healy left the act. Healy was the original conniving character, with Moe, Shemp (later Curly), and Larry playing Stooges.

And all of this, again, is based off some pretty standard vaudeville bits. The acts that you can remember (Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, Abbott and Costello) were just the most successful versions to come out of vaudeville and make movies. Just like for every John Coltrane there's thirty sax players you have never heard of. There is nothing in any of this that requires a filmmaker to cast lookalikes or actalikes.

If there were, they wouldn't even hire name talent, they'd just hold auditions for imitators.

The fact that people clamor so much for redundant tripe that is produced exactly like the previous incarnations is one reason why our culture sucks so much. Let's put away the notion that nothing is new and that everything is bound to repeat itself, ad infinitum, until the eventual end of history.

Let's even go one step further and say that blatant cannibalization of past properties outright is the best way to produce entertainment. We won't even try to update the core gags anymore, just remake and reboot and so on and so forth.

Why does it have to be down to the level of looks or hairstyle? Again, if you want to watch The Three Stooges and be reminded of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp or Curly, then go watch those shorts.

In the meantime, I'd love to see someone do a twist on the caricatures they created. Maybe women instead of men. Maybe something else.

Otherwise, why not just have a film festival and be done with it? Hell, just edit together some shorts and some of their feature length material.

It would be cheaper than a new movie and certainly be truer to the "original".

Six_By_Nine: Three people that I...don't hate, to varying degrees.

Hell, Hank Azaria was the best thing about Spamalot. And I've never seen him do a shiatty role before.

So you didn't see "Godzilla"?

As far as I know, Azaria is the only one of the three who is Jewish. That might not make any difference at all, or it might make all the difference in the world.