If there's one thing we love here at hecklerspray, it's sequels of Jim Carrey movies that don't feature Jim Carrey at all. Many is the time we've snuggled down to watch Dumb And Dumberer or Son Of The Mask.

Of course that's not true – like most of you, we'd rather saw the top of our heads off and go trampolining until our brains slopped out all down our faces than watch a Jim Carrey-less sequel to a Jim Carrey film. That's not opinion, that's solid gold fact. So it's with a mixture of anger, bewilderment and childlike fear that we can announce that Morgan Creek is planning to make a Jim Carrey-less Ace Ventura 3.

Let's face it, there aren't a whole lot of ways that you can make a movie worse than Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Obviously there was Ace Ventura 2, which certainly went all out to top the original in the bad stakes, but the good people of Morgan Creek decided that it wasn't enough – after all, you can't make a truly bad sequel unless you realise that the original was nothing more than a paper-thin star vehicle and then decide to ditch the star. And that's how Ace Ventura 3 came to be.

Even if Jim Carrey decided to return from his current job – alternating between making art house films that are acclaimed and nobody watches and making big budget slapstick comedies that aren't acclaimed and nobody watches – to become Ace Ventura again, Ace Ventura 3 would be a film that the world doesn't need. And since we know that Jim Carrey won't have anything to do with the movie, Ace Ventura 3 will be a film that the world doesn't want. But here are the facts, anyway, from Reuters:

[Morgan Creek] has hired Jeff Sank and brothers Jason and Justin Heimberg to write a third installment of the hit franchise "Ace Ventura." The two previous "Ventura" comedies — 1994's "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and the following year's "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls" — grossed more than $180 million domestically and helped establish Jim Carrey as one of the highest-paid comedy actors in Hollywood. The latest pet project is expected to center on the eccentric detective's son, who steps into his father's shoes to take over the family business.

Oh great, so Ace Ventura 3 will be about the adventures of Jim Carrey's hilarious son. We can only hope that Ace Ventura 3 manages to live up to all the other critically lauded Son Of… movies that have been made, like Son Of Kong, Son Of Tarzan, Son Of Robin Hood, Son Of The Blob and Son Of A Bitch. Still, even though Ace Ventura 3 will surely fail, at least we can be sure that if whoever is picked to play the son of Ace Ventura gets too overheated and dehydrated on-set, he'll get a shitty letter sent to him from a Morgan Creek bigwig.

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Morgan Creek Tracking Down Ventura – Reuters

[story by Stuart Heritage]