Sean Penn, Jim Carrey in line for Three Stooges flick

By The Philadelphia Inquirer
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Sean Penn and the Three Stooges? Sean as a Stooge? Variety reports that the brooding actor-director has actually consented to play Larry in Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s comedy about the American philosophical coterie "The Three Stooges."

It doesn’t sound nearly as crazy if you consider Penn’s co-stars: Benicio Del Toro is negotiating to play Moe, while Jim Carrey has agreed to put on 40 pounds to play that lovable bear, Jerome "Curly" Howard.

The Farrelly brothers, who have been trying to get a Stooges movie made for more than a decade, will start shooting in early fall.