Jim Carrey May’ve Acquired Devil’s Powers In ‘Bruce Almighty’ Sequel That By no means Occurred – Deadline

Jim Carrey starred within the 2003 movie Bruce Almighty which was written by Steven Koren, Mark O’Keefe and Steve Oedekerk. The movie was successful on the field workplace and will’ve had a sequel with Carrey reprising his function but it surely ended up not getting made.

In an interview with SyFy Wire, Koren and O’Keefe recalled that on the premiere of Bruce Almighty they bumped into producer Michael Bostick and pitched him an thought for a sequel. The follow-up story could be known as “Brucifer” and would contain Carrey’s Bruce buying Devil’s powers.

“[Carrey’s] supervisor and him needed to do Brucifer,” Koren mentioned. “We went in and pitched it, but it surely by no means fairly labored out, as a result of it was afterward … It could have been one other big film and I don’t suppose they needed to do it. It simply didn’t work out for some cause, however lots of people cherished it, together with Jim.”

The screenwriters defined that Bruce’s spouse Grace, performed by Jennifer Aniston, would’ve died with Koren saying, “You are inclined to lose your religion when the world appears unfair, and that’s what received him. It got here from a critical place, however we had been gonna write it in a really pleasant manner. We definitely didn’t wish to depress folks. So I believe that scared [the studio] slightly bit, however to Jim’s credit score, he completely understood that we had been going to make an enormous comedy and thought all people would join with it.”

Bruce would’ve used his satanic powers to deliver Grace again to life. Koren mentioned that when he was pitching Carrey, he was “laughing his ass off as a result of we had her come again as Jennifer Aniston. He mentioned, ‘No, she has to seem like a zombie first after which we’ll make her stunning once more.’ We thought that was sensible.”

The thought for Brucifer was pitched to the studio in 2010 but it surely was handed on. By that point, the studio had already produced Evan Almighty in 2007, which didn’t fare properly on the field workplace. The follow-up film revolved round Steven Carrell’s Evan Baxter from the primary film in a contemporary take of Noah’s Ark.