Doing the rounds to promote their latest comedy Hall Pass, one half of the Farrelly brothers comedy writing/directing team (which have previously given the world such hilarious shock-comedies as There’s Something About Mary and Kingpin); Bobby Farrelly; recently spoke to Movie Hole about the possibility of creating a sequel to one of their most beloved hits; Dumb and Dumber.
While the world has already had the opportunity of witnessing a second Dumb and Dumber film, it turned out to be the comedy car-wreck that was Dumb and Dumberer:When Harry Met Lloyd; an unfunny misfire that served as a prequel to the Farrelly’s movie, re-cast the iconic main parts, and suffered greatly from a total lack of Farrelly involvement; something Bobby is determined to improve upon in any planned sequel.
Recognizing the place Dumb and Dumber holds in the hearts of many comedy fans, Bobby noticed that it “has run a bunch of time on TV in the states”; often being quoted by kids who know lines that he confesses to having “long forgotten”; and stated that if he and his brother Peter could “get those two guys back together (Jim Carey and Jeff Daniels), it might be a worthwhile sequel.”
He continued to say that the “ball is in motion”, and that he and his brother have “started to think of what those two dimwits [Harry and Lloyd] would be doing twenty-years later in life”, and are hoping “to come up with something worthy of a sequel”; a sequel that many comedy fans would love to see (provided the original stars did return, and it was just as immature, daft, and brilliant, as the first).
However, at this point a full story idea is yet to rear its head; which means for the moment this one can be filed under wishful thinking, as even if the stars had agreed to return (which they haven’t at this point) there’s no start date, and not even a script currently in the works; meaning any Farrelly endorsed Dumb and Dumber sequel will be a ways off yet.
Pushing hopes back even further, the brothers are due to begin filming their movie adaptation of classic comedy The Three Stooges in “two months”; although at least that, and the release of Hall Pass (which is out now in the U.S., and released in the U.K. on March 11th), will help to fill the comedic breach for the time being.
