June 5, 2003
Jim Carrey Back On With Sonnenfeld, But on a Different Movie!
Columbia plans a fall start for a remake of the 1977 comedy "Fun With Dick and Jane," to star Jim Carrey. Barry Sonnenfeld will direct and Brian Grazer will produce.
Original Col pic starred George Segal and Jane Fonda as an upper middle-class couple who turn to pulling heists to pay the bills. It was adapted from a novel by Gerald Gaiser.
Penning the update is Peter Tolan, who wrote "Analyze This" and "America's Sweethearts."
The original pic was directed by Ted Kotcheff and produced by Max Palevsky.
Carrey and Sonnenfeld recently were teamed to make "Lemony Snicket" for Paramount, but Sonnenfeld ankled the project, along with producer Scott Rudin.
Grazer and Carrey worked together on the 1997 hit "Liar, Liar" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," both for Universal.
March 12, 2003
Jim Carrey Back On Mitty Remake Again!
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is headed to Paramount, with Jim Carrey playing the Danny Kaye role and Steven Spielberg directing. The second substantial remake deal within the last month for Samuel Goldwyn Jr., pic will be developed for Carrey and Spielberg to do within the next 12 months.
DreamWorks could very well come along for the ride, as it is partnering with Paramount on "Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events," a Brad Silberling-directed film that Carrey is toplining.
Paramount declined comment but a spokesman for Spielberg acknowledged that preliminary discussions are under way, as did Goldwyn.
Goldwyn has been a major part of the effort to mount "Guys & Dolls" as a musical at Miramax, to be produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the exec producers of "Chicago." Goldwyn's father produced and distributed the original "Mitty" and "Guys & Dolls."
Goldwyn has been trying for nearly a decade to mount a proper remake of the 1947 comedy, in which Kaye played a timid fellow whose daydreams of being a swashbuckling hero were played out in fantasy sequences. Movie was based on a short story by humorist James Thurber.
Goldwyn recently settled a lawsuit with New Line and retrieved the pic rights after years of unfilled fantasy star-director pairings. Goldwyn originally chose New Line over a Jeff Katzenberg-led courtship at Disney, primarily because Goldwyn wanted Carrey, who'd just become a superstar off the New Line comedies "The Mask" and "Dumb and Dumber."
Goldwyn made Carrey's first film, "Once Bitten," which came before the comedian's meteoric rise as a film star. Ron Howard came aboard to direct "Mitty," then departed to direct "Ed TV." Howard was followed by Carrey's "Mask" director, Chuck Russell. Again, it never got beyond the fantasy stage.
The project then languished after the departure of the execs who championed it, Michael De Luca and Richard Saperstein. The recent effort to berth "Mitty" at Par came about after DreamWorks joined Par's "Snicket" ticket and took a lead creative role.
Carrey and Spielberg have always wanted to do a film together, and they once flirted with "Meet the Parents." The "Snicket" meetings led to talk about "Mitty," and suddenly things began moving very quickly.
It is unclear whether Sam Goldwyn, Spielberg and Carrey would want to start fresh with "Mitty." Several drafts were developed for Howard and Russell by such scribes as Peter Tolan, Chuck Russell, and Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel.
Sources said Goldwyn is not going to be as patient with superstar talent as he was the last time around. Both Spielberg and Carrey will be expected to make the film in the short term, probably by early next year.
Par has been led in its "'Mitty"' quest by Goldwyn's son John, who is chairman of the motion picture group.
"I am very optimistic that it will happen at Paramount; I like Sherry (Lansing) and I'm very fond of her No. 2 executive," Goldwyn said. "We are still working on the approach to the movie and there's no deal on paper yet. I have always wanted to see this done with Jim."
The CAA-repped Spielberg is set to direct Tom Hanks in the drama "Terminal," and he's due to reteam with Harrison Ford and George Lucas in a fourth Indiana Jones pic, which Frank Darabont scripted.
Carrey has been starring in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" for Focus, and then will follow playing the evil Count Olaf in the Silberling-directed "Lemony Snicket." Carrey, who's repped by Gold-Miller and UTA, will next be seen in the Tom Shadyac-directed "Bruce Almighty."
November 20, 2002
The Project Mill Hit Again!
In Entertainment Weekly magazine #678, it is stated on page 88 that "we hear that Jim Carrey, who is currently opposite Jennifer Aniston in 'Bruce Almighty', is circling Universal's 'Strutter'. The romantic comedy, written by Peter Speakman and Michael M.B. Galvin, is set amid the as yet-unexplored world on Olympic racewalking."
Dark Horizons reports that Jim Carrey is rumored to star in a remake of the 1982 Italian film "I Know That You Know That I Know". It was originally taken from Variety. How will this fit in Jim's busy schedule anyway?
And you heard here first at Jim Carrey Website and FoxNews.com reports that Jim Carrey has committed to a long aborning project at Sony/Columbia Pictures called American Neurotic. His co-stars will more than likely be Sir Anthony Hopkins and Kate Beckinsale. Steve Chbosky, the man who's adapted Rent for a film version, is just polishing the script for American Neurotic and will present it shortly to the movie's producers, Brillstein-Grey. This will be the end of a long road for this screenplay which was originally written by Mike White (The Good Girl, Chuck & Buck) and was once supposed to star Hugh Grant.
The concept for the story is sort of Meet the Parents with a twist. In this case, Carrey plays a single guy with a wild sex life. When he meets the girl of his dreams, he goes into therapy and recounts for his shrink all his adventures including new ones with his great love.
Of course, the therapist turns out to be the girl's father.
Where these projects fit in Jim's busy schedule is still unknown.
November 20, 2002
A Jim Carrey Website Exclusive!!! New Bruce Almighty Pictures from ET!
On Entertainment Tonight's program last night they took a behind the scenes look at Jim Carrey's new movie Bruce Almighty on the set. Here are the exclusive pictures for your enjoyment!!
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