Three Stooges Sign up Penn as Larry, Carrey as Curly

With a release date set, and the project lingering for the longest time, you can bet that MGM made it worth their while for the possibility of seeing the double Oscar winning Sean Penn to play Larry, and for Jim Carrey to play Curly in the revived Farrelly brothers’ dream project. The Three Stooges can now claim to have three excellent actors on board with Carrey the one that will benefit the most from Benicio Del Toro‘s and Penn’s current cred. Worth noting, Carrey is going the DeNiro Raging Bull route, packing on the “40 pounds” for the role.

The new movie will be an adventure that revolves around the Stooges characters originated by Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Jerome “Curly” Howard in the classic Columbia Picture films. The film will be structured similarly to the shorts, as a feature storyline plays out over three instalments that run between 25 and 30 minutes each.

Since his Oscar win, Penn has been attached to a couple of projects – he is filming Fair Game and will embark on Cartel, before hitting the slapstick comedy.