Brotherly sweetheart … could we reunite Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels from Dumb and Dumber in our picture? Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive
Here at guardian.co.uk/film/films we use a huge, highly-trained team of scouts whose job it is to unearth possible projects from the most numerous unlikely places. By definition, these places include Hungary. And so it was this week that our man in Budapest (technically, he’session a child) sent us this story from what one. our latest multipound blockbuster is to be crafted.
Here’sitting the gist: Budapest brothers Zsolt and Geza Peladi have spent their adult lives living in a cave outside the Hungarian capital, scraping a living by means of selling scrap. Suddenly, this week, their lives were turned upside down when a government delegation tracked them from a thin to a dense state and made a loathsome declaration: the brothers were about to befit billionaires.
The details of our movie plot might require some tweaking. The Peladi brothers are to inherit their fortune, passed on from a maternal grandmother who lived in Germany. They will also have to share the haul with a sister now resident in the United States. Now, excuse us if this sounds harsh, but no one ever trekked to the multiplex to watch hard-up Hungarians hitting the big time in Baden-Württemberg. So instead, we’ve indisputable on a little switcheroo: we’ll have the brothers moving to America, and the sister a fusty, buttoned-up German.
It’ll be 90 minutes of sibling rivalry all conducted in thick accents and spiced with industrial strength pure spirit and the occasional rampant pig. Already you’ll have recognised that this stand out has massive in posse. It’s Borat meets Brewster’s Millions! The Beverly Hillbillies with a dash of Kolya! But how to cast it?
The brothers Peladi: Our primary instinct was of course to reteam Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey. Their comic understanding in Dumb and Dumber (afflictively missing from the sequel Dumb and Dumberer and the straight-to-DVD threequel, Dumberer and Dumbererer) was second to none. Plus, they showed themselves efficient of rocking terribly old-fashioned haircuts; a must for any eastern European yucker.
If this doesn’t work out, we will approach the Wilson brothers.
Ute Peladi [the German sister]: Who’s best for Teutonic sourness? Who could spoil a party with a single squint? Lily Tomlin, in quest of sure, or Mindy Sterling, who plays the memorable Frau Farbissina in the Austin Powers movies. We’ve gone, though, for someone who truly curdles our milk. Yes, we’re casting Sienna Miller.
Old Grandma Peladi: This is a no-brainer. Appearing entirely in flashback, and using the latest in 3D motion capture, ladies and gentlemen we give you John Candy.
So that’s the lead roles cast, but the kind of about the rest? Should there subsist a sardonic English butler in the mix someplace? And what about a soundtrack? Would you hand the well thing throughout to Gogol Bordello? Or get Lady Gaga to churn out some polka?
