LOS ANGELES (AP) — Resurrect Curly, Larry and Moe? As any Three Stooges fan might say, that’s soitenly sacrilege.

Casting new actors as the knuckleheads who specialize in slapping one another around and braining themselves with hammers would be like trying to redo the Marx brothers or Laurel and Hardy, right?

Yet the idea has been with Peter and Bobby Farrelly for 16 years, since not long after their early success with “Dumb and Dumber,” and they wrote their first Stooges script after they really hit it big with “There’s Something About Mary.”