Topic: MGM Pumps New Blood in to Farrelly Stooges Movie

[BeAStooge]

I remember reading years ago that there was a film in the works (at least planned) with a plot that had Curly-Joe becoming the world's first pregnant man.  Is this in any way connected to the film you referenced, Make Love Not War? 

There is no such script.  It has nothing to do with the storyline of MAKE LOVE NOT WAR.

MLNW, as described in The Three Stooges Scrapbook, presents the Stooges in the Philippines, as WWII prisoners in a Japanese POW camp.

[BeAStooge]

I am glad to see MGM getting involved.  At least that company has a legitimate connection to the Stooges' history.

Excerpted from C3 and MGM/UA's press releases...

- The Three Stooges Rejoin the Lion
 - The Three Stooges... their relationship with MGM dates back to 1933 when the trio appeared in a series of shorts and features for the Lion.

No, not really.  Actually... not at all.

Outside of the "MGM" corporate logo/name, today's MGM/UA has no legacy/connection with the studio that the Stooges worked at in 1933 and 1934.

 - MGM acquired by corporate raider/entrepreneur Kirk Kerkorian in the 1970s, the backlot was dismantled and sold off to Culver City downtown development in the late 1970s.

 - MGM's pre-1986 film library was sold to Turner Entertainment in 1986.  Turner was acquired by Time-Warner in 1996, and that film library is owned by Warner Brothers.

 - The remaining MGM studio was acquired by Lorimar Telepictures in 1987.  Lorimar went belly-up, and later sold the facility to Sony.  The Culver City based studio has been the home of (ironically) Sony/Columbia Pictures since 1991.


The MGM of today is a trademarked asset, and a film financer with gambling, hotel, and resort interests... it owns none of the films or real estate that define what is regarded as the [1924 - 1986] history and legacy of the "real" MGM.


If this ill-advised film project goes forward... it has not "rejoined" anyone... it has done nothing more than to partner with a corporate stooge.