The film's orginial directors the Farelly Brothers have even gone as far as to outline the plot and said that production has stuttered because of scheduling issues. Scheduling issues seems to be a very polite way of saying "one of the main stars doesn't want to do it" if Jim Carrey's comments are anything to go by, but you know, these crazy Hollywood types have a habit of saying one thing and then doing something the complete opposite. Almost like a lot of money's involved and they are trying to get as much as possible. Weird.
Anyway, here's some quotes from the glorious people at www.empireonline.com:
"We were hoping to shoot it very soon - this fall - but that didn't come to pass because of scheduling conflicts. Jeff has a successful TV show over here now so we have to work around that. We are planning on shooting it this coming spring and hopefully it will be out by next fall. That's the plan and that will be our next movie, we've already written the script. We're very anxious to get back in business with those two guys."
Well I'm glad they mentioned poor Jeff - so far a lot of the focus has gone on the Farellys and Carrey in getting this created, but seeing as he is the most sucessful part of the creative trilogy at the moment, maybe he was due a little more focus. Daniels is busy getting all kinds of critical acclaim with Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, and with Carrey's last few efforts bombing (Mr Popper's Penguins...really?) and the Farelly's latest offerings pissing on the chips of their earlier work, he could now be the sticking point in getting this made.
As for plot details:
“I can tell you that there is no growth out of either one of them and it's 20 years later. The story revolves around the fact that one of them may have sired a child. They want to go and find the child because he's having a kidney problem and he wants to ask him for one of his kidneys."
Well, let's all let out a collective "huzzah" that it at least seems to be going in the right direction and has moved at least four inches - we will just have to wait with baited breath to see if this comes to fruition.
(Original story posted by Empire Online http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=34947)
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