We're not sure how much Jim Carrey knows about karma, but we suspect that karma might be the reason Jim Carrey hasn't been able to make a film lately – after all, he's due some kind of punishment for Fun With Dick And Jane.
In recent months, two movies that Jim Carrey has been attached to have sputtered to an end without actually getting made. And Jim Carrey is nothing if not consistent; reports are suggesting that he's walked away from another one – A Little Game Without Consequence, which he was to have co-starred with Cameron Diaz – because he didn't like the script changes that were being made. Presumably that means the film only featured 43 solid minutes of tedious gurning when Jim Carrey was pushing for the full mind-numbing hour.
Not so long ago, Jim Carrey was the king of the gormless comedy movie and the occasional self-consciously serious movie that he obviously thought he'd win an Oscar by starring in but didn't. But things haven't gone so well for Jim Carrey lately. First Jim Carrey was supposed to co-star with Ben Stiller in Used Guys, a film about decrepit sex robots that was eventually shelved not because it sounded like shit but because of budget worries. Then there was the Jim Carrey/ Tim Burton Ripley's Believe It Or Not movie, which met a similarly sticky premature end. And to top it off, Jim Carrey isn't even going to be in Ace Ventura 3, either.
This tremendous run of cock-ups left Jim Carrey with choice but to sack his agents and take on a new movie called A Little Game Without Consequence, a remake of French film Un Petit Jeu Sans Consequence that would see Jim Carrey team up with Cameron Diaz for the first time since The Mask. But things haven't gone too well there either, as E! Online reports:
A source connected to the project told E! Online that Carrey and Diaz's departure was the result of the usual bugaboo of creative differences – specifically the actors were said to be unhappy with the latest version of the script written by the movie's Italian director, Gabriele Muccino… According to the source, Carrey and Diaz signed on pending a rewrite to address problems in the third act without ruining the film's dark tone. But the draft turned in by Muccino apparently took a different tact. The revised screenplay also reportedly irked Game's producers, who wanted to make the high-concept plot more commercial. Following Carrey and Diaz's exit, Muccino also dropped out.
Most actors would be panicking like crazy at the moment, knowing that every film they go near turns to crap in front of their eyes in such a spectacular way, but not Jim Carrey. His next movie sees him in a role that should put him back up into the A-list; he's playing a dust-hearing cartoon elephant. Oh.
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Carrey, Diaz Don't Got Game – E! Online
[story by Stuart Heritage]