Many moons ago, it was announced that Jim Carrey and Jason Reitman were going to team for the comedy, Pierre Pierre, by writers Edwin Cannistraci and Frederick Seton. Their script for the project made the Black List, the list of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood, and was snatched up for a cool million by Fox Atomic. Then Reitman dropped out, as did Fox Atomic (of existence that is), and the project got shelved. But now Larry Charles, most recently of both Borat and Bruno fame, has come aboard, and the project is moving forward again, with Carrey still attached.
The film will find Carrey portraying a Frenchman who transports a stolen painting from Paris to London, behaving quite obnoxiously along the way. It reportedly has a budget somewhere around $20 million, which , surprisingly, Carrey isn’t scarfing up all for himself just to appear in the thing.
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As much as I love Larry Charles from Curb Your Enthusiasm and Religulous, why would they choose him to direct this when his talent has only been proven in projects that rely on improvisation? It's a legendary million-dollar Black List script, meaning I'm pretty sure you'd want somebody to film it straight off the page rather than add or subtract from it. It's not like Charles has much of a style when he's making mockumentaries, so I'm interested in seeing what his contribution brings to the table, other than his fantastic work with character actors.
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