How far along is the Dumb and Dumber sequel?ANDERS: For me, it’s all the way along. That was the first thing that John [Morris] and I wrote when we were just wrapping up post on That’s My Boy. We had met with Jim Carrey right before we flew to Boston to shoot this movie. We had a meeting, and then went right to the airport. And then, the whole summer, the Farrelly’s producer was calling me and saying, “Hey, have you had a chance to work on the script?,” and I was like, “Dude, no! We’re crazy busy!” So, we hadn’t done anything. And then, when things were finally starting to slow down a little bit, in the post-production process, we went off and wrote Dumb and Dumber 2, and had a blast writing it. We turned it in and everybody was really happy and excited, and then Pete and Bobby took the script and went off and did their thing with it.
Now, what I’m hearing from those guys is that they’re about to sit down with Jim Carrey and work through it with him. The hope is that it goes into production this Fall. That was another pinch yourself thing. Dumb and Dumber is one of my all-time favorite movies. We’re huge Farrelly brothers fans, and it was great to get to know those guys and work with those guys. You have to understand where we come from. My writing partner, John, and I are just guys that made a movie with a cheap video camera, just for fun with our friends, and it turned into craziness.
We never set out to have a career. We weren’t guys that were going to film school and killing ourselves to get an agent. We just made this movie for fun, and then one thing led to another and led to another and, pretty soon, we were writing Dumb and Dumber 2 and thinking, “What is going on here?!” We’re very grateful and very excited, but very terrified a lot of the time, too. When you’re working on that script, you have so much fun writing it, but then also you think, “Jesus Christ, this is Dumb and Dumber 2. I don’t want to screw this up!”
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