I think you are missing the point of the Mel Gibson produced made for TV movie. That was a bio-pic, meant to tell the "behind the scenes" or "real life" story of the men who played the Three Stooges. Was it good? Most definitely not. There were many problems with the bio-pic, including the very over-the-top portrayals of Shemp and Joe Besser. Yes, the scenes they recreated from the shorts with the new actors were awful, but they were also secondary to the overall film and not meant to be the main focal point. I'll tell you what, I'll sit through that bio-pic again to give it a more detailed analysis (the things I do for this site!).
This movie, if it ever gets made, will suck all sorts of ass no matter who plays the Stooges and no matter who makes the film. Why? Because Benicio Del Toro cannot play Moe, Sean Penn cannot play Larry and Jim Carrey cannot play Curly. The only people who can play those roles and pull them off are Moe Howard as Moe, Larry Fine as Larry and Jerome Howard as Curly (and if Shemp were to have been a part of it, Samuel Howard as Shemp). The actors made and morphed themselves with the characters to the point where to most people they became indistinguishable. Nobody else can play those parts, and the last time I checked all of those guys are long dead.
The Three Stooges were product of their time and left us with an enormous canon of films. Let's keep them in their time, look at the films they made in their time! There is no good reason to try to bring them into the present with actors that cannot play those parts. I don't want to see Moe with a cell phone or Larry surfing the Internet or Curly playing Wii. It wouldn't make sense and it wouldn't be any good! The Three Stooges time has come and gone (in fact their time went while they were still working) and all six of them that were at one time members of the group have died. Let's be content with the work they left behind.
