'Dumb and Dumber To': Sequel Gets Picked Up by Universal Pictures, Carrey and Daniels to Star Again as Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne

Here it comes, again. The Dumb and Dumber sequel is on its way to being filmed and get this, it's got a great, new title. How about, "Dumb and Dumber To."  Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are returning as the lovable lunkheads. According to a Deadline.com report, the sequel will find the buddies on a road trip. 

Of course Carrey and Daniels will be on a road trip. Where else should they go or be. A perfect plot for Dumb and Dumber To.

The Farrelly Brothers, who produced the original Dumb and Dumber, tweeted out the announcement:

 "IT'S OFFICIAL: 'Dumb and Dumber To' is going into production with @RedGranitePics and @UniversalPics

Fans of hapless heroes Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne will get the chance to spend another two hours with them next summer, after the Farrelly Brothers secured a distribution deal for a sequel to their 1994 comedy hit.

A little more than a week after Warner Bros. announced it had passed on "Dumb and Dumber To," (yes, it's really spelled that way) Bobby and Peter Farrelly announced that Universal Pictures and Red Granite Pictures saved the day. 

The Farrellys and Universal hope to have "Dumb and Dumber To" in theaters in the summer of 2014, the 20th anniversary of the original.

"We'll hopefully be shooting by August, in Atlanta, and be out next summer," Peter Farrelly told Nerdist.com in a podcast. "It takes place in Rhode Island, but you shoot in Atlanta because it's cheap."

Shooting for the project came together quickly because of scheduling. Daniels will begin work on a third season of the HBO series "The Newsroom" in the fall, while Carrey is set to star in a comedy with Owen Wilson.

Farrelly told Nerdist.com that the media has exaggerated the film's problems.

"There's been a lot of press how Warner Bros. didn't want to make ['Dumb and Dumber To'] and that's got nothing to do with that," Farrelly told the website. "['Dumb and Dumber'] was made originally by New Line [Cinema], and New Line now is owned by Warner Bros., but it was never really a Warner Bros. thing. Long story short, we're going to another studio and there have been negotiations - that's what's held this thing up, because we're negotiating with two other studios, Warner Bros. and New Line, about how to get it out of there."

There's no word as to whether actress Lauren Holly, who later married and divorced Carrey, will return to play Mary Swanson. Even if the odds are long, we're telling you "there's a chance."

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