I remember hearing a few years ago that they were going to "remake" the stooges.
It was going to be done by the Farrelly Brothers (Dumb & Dumber, Something About Mary) and was going to star Benecio Del Turro as Moe, Sean Penn as Larry, and Jim Carrey as Curly.
Apparently that fell through, and the studios threw it to a bunch of dipshits instead.
Kind of like how Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote the original script to Dumb and DumberER (the prequel), and then that whole thing fell through, so the studio hired someone much shittier to write their own prequel and cast it with unfunny hacks.