Yeah. he tried to get the rights to it or something? Maybe it went Star Trek, Flash Gordon, and ultimately Star Wars. They have a comic book release of the original version of the movie... I'm staying the shell away from it.
On that note... GAH! I can't believe they're making another Dumb and Dumber. Amazingly, this is the film that got Jim Carrey to actually do a sequel, his first since Ace Ventura 2. But really... I thought out of the original three Carrey movies (Mask and Ace Ventura being the other two), D&D was the weakest one... even when it got a cartoon series, it just wasn't as fun as the other two. But then again, I never liked the Farrley Brothers, and I find their best film to be Osmosis Jones, and only for the animated portions.