The long gestating sequel to the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels hit Dumb and Dumber is no longer in the works at Warner Bros. It will be up to another studio to continue the franchise if it wants to.
Sources for The Hollywood Reproter say that Warner Bros. has passed on the sequel, which is titled Dumb and Dumber To. The studio will let directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly take the project to another studio.
Dumb and Dumber To has been on an off over the past couple of years. Last summer, Carrey sounded as if he was ready to leave the project and expressed disappointment with how slowly the project was moving. But then, the Farrelly Brothers said they were almost done with the script and that Carrey and Daniels were ready to come back.
“We have a script that’s really, really fun,” Peter Farrelly told Entertainment Weekly in January. He added, “Because it’s been so hard to get this thing made for whatever reason—it’s baffling but whatever—we’ve had time to just keep plugging, keep plugging, keep plugging. And the script is really fun.”
The plot for the sequel would have Carrey and Daniels on a road trip in a search for Daniels’ illegitimate daughter, who needs a kidney transplant. Brad Krevoy, Steve Stabler, Charlie Wessler and Bradley Thomas are producing.
The original Dumb and Dumber grossed $247 million and only cost $17 million to make. In 2003, New Line, which is now part of Warner Bros., made Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, a prequel that the directors have disassociated themselves with.
Warner Bros. is particularly nervous about working with Carey again. The studio worked with him on The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, which made only $22 million domestically and cost $30 million to make. THR’s sources say that the studio isn’t sure that a sequel would be a big hit.
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