Monotreme
02-04-2007, 09:23 AM
Great news for all you Burton and Carrey fans like myself: According to Carrey, the film is back on!
From RottenTomatoes:
The on again, off again, "Ripley's Believe It or Not" project is back on, said Jim Carrey. He will star as Robert Ripley in Tim Burton's film.
"It’s going to be wonderful," Carrey said. "It’s just an incredible world to open up. He was a very much the champion of the underdog and people who were a little bit different and freakish."
Also known as quite a fashionable man, with plenty of lovely ladies on his arm, the film may address Ripley's romantic side too. "He was about celebrating life. He was about proving its special-ness."
As for the shifting status of Ripley's on the production schedule, Carrey explained it was not a money issue. "Financing never went away. We just got kind of close to going into production and I just felt like the script wasn't quite where it could have been. I had a lot of ideas that would have facilitated a change in plan, a change of approach to the production of it so I just thought it could be more than it was."
Carrey expects to begin filming in early 2008."
This is absolutely WONDERFUL news! I was dismayed to hear that this project would be postponed, especially since it sounded like the most interesting Burton project since Ed Wood. But now it seems to be back on, and the pairing of Burton and Carrey with this subject matter seems like a dream come true to me. Can't wait to see this come along!
From RottenTomatoes:
The on again, off again, "Ripley's Believe It or Not" project is back on, said Jim Carrey. He will star as Robert Ripley in Tim Burton's film.
"It’s going to be wonderful," Carrey said. "It’s just an incredible world to open up. He was a very much the champion of the underdog and people who were a little bit different and freakish."
Also known as quite a fashionable man, with plenty of lovely ladies on his arm, the film may address Ripley's romantic side too. "He was about celebrating life. He was about proving its special-ness."
As for the shifting status of Ripley's on the production schedule, Carrey explained it was not a money issue. "Financing never went away. We just got kind of close to going into production and I just felt like the script wasn't quite where it could have been. I had a lot of ideas that would have facilitated a change in plan, a change of approach to the production of it so I just thought it could be more than it was."
Carrey expects to begin filming in early 2008."
This is absolutely WONDERFUL news! I was dismayed to hear that this project would be postponed, especially since it sounded like the most interesting Burton project since Ed Wood. But now it seems to be back on, and the pairing of Burton and Carrey with this subject matter seems like a dream come true to me. Can't wait to see this come along!