I'm still hoping he's going to do 'Pierre, Pierre'. But not with Larry Charles (Bruno), I would like to see Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking, Up in the Air) returning to the project. Also the other project (forgot the title) involving Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt) would be great for him in every possible way. Specially when I saw the
trailer for 'The Descendants'. He could do wonderfull things with an opportunity like that. Those movies are character-based, have a huge soul, they get out the best of everything involved. And frankly, it's what he needs right now. I'm also thinking Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine), Wes Anderson or (even though I don't like all his movies) Noah Baumbach.
Imo : Since 2005 (and the new agent) Jim hasn't done anything that's ... well ... REALLY exiting. It were all very safe choices. And more than half of the interesting projects got cancelled. I don't know whát happened, but it ain't good. "I Love You Philip Morris" was the only thing that was outside the box but was killed by all the problems and it was a good thing he did something like that, but those directing guys aren't Alexander Payne, it's as simple as that. He had his typical Carrey-flick with 'Popper' and it didn't even score big time. So, imo, he's at this glorious point ánd age he can do everything he wants and doesn't need to claim his status as the king of comedy. Fluck that ... I've said it before and I keep saying it : It's time for a change.
He needs to get bett... well, other projects. He needs a new 'Truman Show', 'Eternal Sunshine' or 'Man on the Moon' and when it comes to comedy, he needs more challenging things ... I even hope there comes a moment where someone like ... dunno ... Tarantino casts him as a villain and Carrey surprises everyone with a creepy performance that's just genious. I know he's able to do that. I'm sure.
And about 'Dumb & Dumber' ... I don't know. I'm sure people will go either : "He's just doing that because he wants to be as big in the '90s, old glory." or "He's to old for that, they should leave a comedy classic like that alone." Somewhere I'm looking forward to a sequel on that ... but comedy has evolved and changed a lot since then ... The original has a huge status, so expectations would be extremely high, in an unfair way even. If he's doing a sequel, I think it should be Ace Venture. Only one, Jim going totaly crazy ... and a very well written one, also.