![]() It’s a fish with just Jim Carrey’s human face. The studio realized, “So, he’s live action for 10 minutes and then he’s a cartoon and we just paid ?” They did this rig - remember in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life where they have the fish bodies? So, they basically did that. At that point, that’s when you paid $25 million for Jim Carrey, period. Here’s Oswalt telling the story: They CG-animated a cartoony-looking fish that kinda looked like Jim Carrey. Oedekerk stepped down from the project in 1999, and Oswalt says Brad Bird was brought in for a meeting about potentially directing the movie. Steve Oedekerk, who wrote and directed Carrey in the sequel Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, was hired to write/direct the Limpet remake. Limpet that was in development with Jim Carrey in 1998. ![]() Patton Oswalt was a guest on the third-to-last episode of The Best Show on WFMU last night, and during a conversation about movies, he told a story he heard from director Brad Bird about a canceled remake of Don Knotts’s 1964 family film The Incredible Mr.
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