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Jim Carrey wanted to make a found-footage horror movie on the set of Dumb and Dumber To and approached the directing duo Daniels about filming it.
Jim Carrey wanted to make a found-footage horror movie on the set of Dumb and Dumber To. One of Carrey's many iconic comedies from the 1990s, Dumb and Dumber stars him and Jeff Daniels as Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, two dimwitted yet well-intentioned pals who embark on a cross-country road trip to return a suitcase full of money to its rightful owner, not realizing it was actually left behind as ransom. The 1994 screwball comedy received a belated sequel, Dumb and Dumber To, in 2014 that followed a similar premise, though it paled in comparison to the original.
The first Dumb and Dumber was filmed partially at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, which is where Stephen King got the idea for The Shining, and the cast and crew apparently experienced many haunted incidents during production. This gave Carrey the idea to film a horror movie during the production of Dumb and Dumber To. Inspired by Paranormal Activity, Carrey thought the horror movie should be filmed found-footage style and even approached the directing duo known as Daniels, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, about making it. During a recent roundtable discussion hosted by The Hollywood Reporter, Kwan recounts the unbelievable story about the Dumb and Dumber horror film that never happened. Read what he said below:
Very early in our careers, Jim Carrey reached out.
He had just seen Paranormal Activity and was like, "Guys, it's found footage and it's horror — have you seen it?" And we were like, "Uh-huh, we've heard of it. Where is this going?" And he was like, "I haven't seen anyone do that — but with comedy. And I have this great idea." Basically, the set of Dumb and Dumber was famously a haunted set. He's like, "The whole time we were shooting, things were breaking, people were getting hurt, doors were swinging, and it felt haunted. We're going to shoot Dumb and Dumber To, and I want you guys to do a found-footage horror comedy on the set. While we're filming, you guys are going to make a feature-length, behind-the-scenes video that slowly becomes a horror film." We're like, "OK, we're in. This is amazing." We wrote a whole outline and were really excited. Then we sat down with the producer, we pitched the idea, and they're like, "We're not actually going to make this. I'm sorry, Jim got really excited, but there's no way the studio is going to let us do a movie while they're shooting Dumb and Dumber To."
