Daniels almost made a found footage horror film on the set of Jim Carrey’s Dumb And Dumber To
The Everything Everywhere All At Once directors were approached by Carrey about the haunted set
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Directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan—collectively know as Daniels—made their feature debut in 2016 with the Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano-led Swiss Army Man. However, Jim Carrey approached the duo in 2014 about creating a found-footage horror film on the set of Dumb And Dumber To.
“Very early in our careers, Jim Carrey reached out,” Kwan says during a writer’s roundtable with The Hollywood Reporter. “He had just seen Paranormal Activity and was like, ‘Guys, it’s found footage and it’s horror—have you seen it?’ And we were like, ‘Uh-huh, we’ve heard of it. Where is this going?’ And he was like, ‘I haven’t seen anyone do that—but with comedy. And I have this great idea.’”
The idea stemmed from the original 1994 film Dumb And Dumber, which was shot at the famed Stanley Hotel (as seen in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining).
“Basically, the set of Dumb and Dumber was famously a haunted set,” Kwan says. “He’s like, ‘The whole time we were shooting, things were breaking, people were getting hurt, doors were swinging, and it felt haunted. We’re going to shoot Dumb and Dumber To, and I want you guys to do a found-footage horror comedy on the set. While we’re filming, you guys are going to make a feature-length, behind-the-scenes video that slowly becomes a horror film.’ We’re like, ‘OK, we’re in. This is amazing.’ We wrote a whole outline and were really excited.”
However, the project came to a halt thanks to the producers on the film.
Kwan continues, “Then we sat down with the producer, we pitched the idea, and they’re like, ‘We’re not actually going to make this. I’m sorry, Jim got really excited, but there’s no way the studio is going to let us do a movie while they’re shooting Dumb and Dumber To.’”
That’s all for today’s “Jim Carrey films that never came to be” news.
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i initially thought they had just removed ‘jeff’ from the article title.
The way this site is(n’t) edited that wouldn’t be a surprise.
This “collectively known as” thing is bullshit. You say the 2 last names: Simon and Garfunkel, Lord and Miller, etc. This sounds like some grade school nickname taken too far.
Good point, Ted_Frost_AbsolutelyHatesKinja.
Yeach its really really confusing.
I thought so to, and it was the only reason that I clicked through. I really Like Jeff’s work, and a found footage film that he was involved in is absolutely something that I would watch.
So you’re saying Dumb and Dumber To almost had a reason to exist…?
Just about, but only in a very loose sense.
Seriously though considering that Jim Carrey had sworn off doing sequels after the poor Ace Ventura 2, it’s really odd he read the script for ‘Dumb and Dumber To’ and thought “well this seems good”.
Is the Stanley Hotel seen in The Shining? I thought it was just the real-life inspiration for The Overlook.
Producers really are the worst thing to happen to most movies.
This is insane! Jim Carrey needs to be given a bit more free reign behind the camera as he is in front of it.
We all agree Jim Carrey had a good idea here. And could still be done today for any other comedy. If for no other reason than it could lead to two comedy movies being made.
makes as much sense as doing multiple back to the futures
oh they almost did it? they want credit for “almost” doing something?? hmm??
they want credit for “almost” doing something? Do you often interact with things no one said to make yourself feel/sound smart? This might be something to talk with your therapist about.