Over a year after the initial planned production under Tim Burton got canned, the JIm Carrey biopic about Robert Ripley, the explorer who started the whole Ripley’s Believe it or Not phenomenon, is gearing up again. According to Variety, this time Chris Columbus is in talks to direct. Carrey is still on board and the entire concept has reportedly been revamped, with the China-based storyline that helped scuttle the first production scrapped.
Columbus needs to finalize his deal before a writer is hired, and Paramount has eyes on a planned 2011 release date, with hopes of a franchise. Columbus has most recently been working on I Love You, Beth Cooper, starring Hayden Panetierre. And Carrey has Peyton Reed’s Yes Man and I Love You Phillip Morris, an indie directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa upcoming, as well as Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol.
After making a quick check, it occurs to me that I haven’t seen a Jim Carrey movie in the theatre since way back in Liar Liar, but I have a interest in seeing this, which could potentially be very interesting. Ripley was an interesting dude and could be the perfect character for someone of Carrey’s talents and ability to mix the serious with the bizarre.
Hopefully they can CGI in Jack Palance for a cameo or something.
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I want Jim Carrey to be great again. Yeah, I think he was once great. Not with Liar, Liar. Already off the rails by then. In fact, that success probably encouraged him to lean in directions he shouldn't have. BUT. I am encouraged by the sound of his new projects. They don't sound half bad, if not interesting.
You didn't see Eternal Sunshine in the theatre? Unlucky.
I'm interested in this interesting looking movie too. Interesting.
Well that's a bummer. For years this seemed to have potential mainly because it was the reunion of the director and the writers of ED WOOD. Now it's unknown writers and the dude who did MRS. DOUBTFIRE. And BICENTENNIAL MAN. And RENT. If that's the best director you can get it's time to hang this one up. "Franchise" my ass.
I'm not really on board with Jim Carrey as the lead. I just don't see it. From all the Ripley museums I've been to (I think three or so) and what little I've read on him in the museums, I see him as more of an Indiana Jones type.
The other thing that surprises me is that Jim is signing on to a "franchise" when it's known through out Hollywood that Carrey hates to do sequels. He was against Ace Ventura II and up until three weeks before shooting Bruce Almighty II, he backed out, took his $5 million check and ditched the production leaving them to do a rewrite of the entire script.
Of course being we haven't seen anything that resembles good out of Carrey in years, maybe he's learning to play nicely instead of being such a headache to work with. Which would be great, because I love his stuff.
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