I will rebuild them. Painfully.

[khaosworks]

Jim Carrey Goes Bionic
by Josh Grossberg
Oct 22, 2003, 10:25 AM PT

Jim Carrey is normally one of Hollywood's $20 million men. Looks like he's taking a huge paycut.

The rubbery-faced funnyguy is ready to go bionic in a send-up of The Six Million Dollar Man .

Unlike the classic 1970s ABC sci-fi series starring Lee Majors , the movie--which has long been in development as a by-the-numbers suspense thriller--will now be transformed into a comedy vehicle, allowing Carrey to parody the action genre much in the way Mike Myers poked fun at James Bond movies in Austin Powers .

Old School director Todd Philips is onboard to helm the flick for Dimension Films.

Note to Dimension Films. Please don't fuck with my childhood memories. The original show is still camp, but sacred in them.

I swear, Kevin Smith and I will hunt you down and do unspeakable sexual violence to you with rusty chainsaws. We have the technology.

Comments

[surrdave.livejournal.com]

Oh, for pity's sake. They made Mod Squad, but they lose their guts on this?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I will disassemble him. Painfully.

What do we call this Meyers and Carrey dance anyway?

[hoo.livejournal.com]

So Carrey screws up a classic Dr. Suess story with his live-action 'The Grinch' and Meyers hits it big with the Bond franchise. (I believe Remington Steele is doing the spoofs.)

So if they switch places, and Meyers does a Dr. Suess movie and and Carrey gets the Bionic Man franchise, who gets the funny?