During
The Nerdist Podcast, Peter Farrelly set the story straight about Warner Bros
not wanting to make the long awaited sequel to the 1884 comedy classic Dumb and
Dumber featuring Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey. He also spoke about the script,
aka “little masterpiece” and the overall story of the film.
Regarding
Warner Bros. Peter told the following:
“There’s been a lot of press about how Warner Bros doesn’t want to
make it, and it has nothing to do with that. In fact, it was originally
released by New Line, and New Line now is owned by Warner Bros — so it never
really was a Warner Bros thing. And we want …. long story short, we’re going to
another studio and there have been negotiations and that’s what’s held this
thing up, we’ve been negotiating with two different studios, Warner Bros and
New Line, about how to get it out of there.”
The
“little masterpiece”:
“I sent you the script. I was hoping you’d read it so I wouldn’t
have to sit here and tell you how good it is. But I’m telling you its a little
masterpiece. It’s so good, I think it makes the first one better.” .. “We took
two years to work on this script. We didn’t want to do it unless it was as good
as the first one. We just didn’t want to tarnish the first one, and you know,
we didn’t do Dumb and Dumberer — that was done by — which is one
reason they [WB?] didn’t want to do this because they did that and it didn’t
work.”
And
the overall story:
“We start in Rhode Island and we pick up today and explain what
they’ve been doing the last 18 years. And there is something that happens and
we get off to the races quickly.” … ”When you see Dumb and Dumber To, Dumb and Dumber 1 is better because you learn things in Dumb and Dumber To that you knew in Dumb and Dumber 1 but hadn’t put together. For instance, not
giving away too much, Harry always gets revenge. ” … “And when you see the
second one, it has a thing that you won’t see coming , and at the end of it,
you’ll be like ‘oh my god, I just fell for the exact same thing.’”
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