Sean Penn is a Stooge Again!

Sounds like I’m making this up, but it’s honest to God the truth. AMC was playing a Three Stooges marathon this past New Year’s Eve. So I showed them to my five year old niece. She didn’t like them – just sat there and did some fake laughs. Damn kid.

Anyway, the last thing we heard about a film-version (to be directed by the Farrelly Brothers) was Sean Penn stepping down from his role as Larry to get his marriage and family life back on track. Yes, the man’s a fucking retard with the shit he’s said and done in the past. But you have to give him props for having his priorities straight. Family first, fuck everything else.

According to co-director Bobby Farrelly (speaking to Boston Herald), Penn has now returned to the production. Benicio Del Toro still appears to play Moe ("He he Moe is their leader!") while Jim Carrey has fallen out as Curly. I suppose the notion of doing a comedy people would pay money to see was too much for Carrey.

While the search for a new Curley presses on (No love for Shemp? Come on!), Bobby and Peter will direct an Owen Wilson comedy Hall Pass first.