Saturday 15 May 1999
By eBroadcast Staff and agencies.

Self-professed Stooge nut Mel Gibson will team with ABC and Columbia Pictures to make a TV movie about Moe, Larry and Curly’s rise to the top

Above: Black and white living in harmony

ABC and Columbia purchased the option for the Stooges film from Daily Variety columnist Michael Fleming who wrote From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons: The Three Stooges. Gibson’s will co-produce. The film will reportedly air during a sweeps period in 2000.

The team, who is currently searching for a writer, hopes to add some top notch talent to the project. There is also the possibility Gibson could play a small role. The film will tell the story of Stooges' rise from vaudevillians to Hollywood stars through the eyes of their leader Moe.

The film, said to be primarily a celebration of the Stooges’ comedy, will also explore the personal relationships between the three (which are said to have been less than amicable). Unfortunately, the film will not detail any/all pristine twenties women the three plucked while making over 200 double reel films.

All those hotties doing the jitterbug – so little time.