The scrapped Jim Carrey sequel shut down by the studio
Jim Carrey was game to reprise one of his most lucrative roles, but the studio said that this sequel would have been too depressing.
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Wed 5 February 2025 17:45, UK
If you find yourself in a rut and need cheering up, there’s probably a movie starring Jim Carrey that will do the job.
If you require something on the silly side, then there’s The Mask or the Ace Ventura series to tickle your slapstick itch. For comedy of a more romantic nature, why not try Yes Man? Even A Series of Unfortunate Events and the recent Sonic the Hedgehog films, which aren’t conventional comedies, are made so much more enjoyable by Carrey’s presence, especially knowing he’s basically retired at this point.
In 2003, Carrey added another jewel to his comedic crown with the release of Bruce Almighty. With the Canadian in the title role, the movie follows an ordinary man who is granted the powers of God after claiming he could do a better job. Not everybody loved it, but it made a killing at the box office, becoming the star’s highest-grossing release ever.
There’s plenty to enjoy about Bruce constantly finding himself out of depth and abusing the powers of the Almighty for his own personal gain. It also gifted the world with Morgan Freeman as God, one of the most inspired pieces of casting in cinema history.
One of the movie’s co-writers was Steve Koren, who also worked on TV shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm, Veep, and Saturday Night Live. Speaking to Syfy, Koren revealed that there were plans for a direct sequel to Bruce Almighty that would have taken things in a very different direction. It would have been called Brucifer, and Carrey’s character would have been imbued with hell’s powers instead of heaven’s.
“We went in and pitched it, but it never quite worked out because it was later on,” Koren revealed. He and his writing partner, Mark O’Keefe, presented the idea to Universal Pictures in 2010, seven years after the release of the original. This gap might have been the reason why it was turned down. “It would have been another giant movie, and I don’t think they wanted to do it,” the writer continued. “It just didn’t work out for some reason, but a lot of people loved it, including Jim.”
Another reason why Universal said no was probably because the script was dark as hell. Bruce’s turn to the dark side would have been facilitated by the death of his wife Grace (Jennifer Aniston), a premise that doesn’t exactly scream light-hearted comedy. “It came from a serious place, but we were gonna write it in a very friendly way,” Koren explained. “We certainly didn’t want to depress people. So I think that scared them a little bit, but to Jim’s credit, he totally understood that we were going to make a big comedy and thought everybody would connect with it.”
Bruce Almighty did get a sequel, albeit one without Carrey’s involvement. Evan Almighty focused on a character played by Steve Carrell, who had appeared in a supporting role in the first film. Freeman’s God instructs him to build a Noah-style ark ahead of a massive global flood. It was a gigantic bomb, failing to recoup its eye-watering budget of $175million, so the original star dodged a bullet in that respect.
Carrey famously spent decades avoiding sequels at all costs, so the fact that he was willing to sign on to this one means it must have been something special. However, he is more than likely to appear in a fourth Sonic film to keep his sequel-only streak alive, so maybe there’s hope that Brucifier will eventually see the light of day.
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