Earlier this year there was a flurry of news about Ace Ventura 3. Word was that Morgan Creek Productions were just waiting for Jim Carrey to sign off on the project and begin pre-production. Since then we’ve heard nothing. That may be down to the unexpected success of Sonic the Hedgehog, whose Carrey-starring sequel is being fast-tracked through development. And, of course, COVID also threw a million monkey wrenches into the international movie machinery.
But once again there’s some light on the horizon. Famed leaker Daniel Richtman has said that a new Ace Ventura movie is back in development, though did not provide any further details. Carrey may have even hinted at this in a recent SNL sketch: while playing Joe Biden he reprised Ace’s “Loser!” catchphrase to wild applause. Does he know something we don’t?
So what might a modern Ace Ventura be like? Well, obviously Ace is going to be older but somehow I doubt he’s going to be any wiser. My bet is that a sequel a quarter-century on from When Nature Calls would find him trying to get his investigatory mojo back. After all, the world has changed a lot in that time and it’d be fun to see how the world would react to him coming out of retirement for one last case.
A big fly in the ointment might be that the original Ace Ventura: Pet Detective hasn’t aged well. There’s a mean streak of trans and homophobia running through the film, with the sequence where Ace realizes he’s kissed a man, pukes in disgust, burns his clothes and cries in the shower particularly gross. Then again, the character’s passion for animal rights is probably more relatable in the 2020s than it would have been in the 1990s, so at least he’s got that to fall back on.
Whatever the case, Jim Carrey absolutely needs to be involved. They tried doing an Ace Ventura movie without him and, uh, let’s just say there’s a reason you haven’t heard of it. Here’s hoping Richtman is right on this one and we hear some firm news soon.
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