Movie blogs get a lot of emails about “anonymous tips,” and most of the time not only are they not true, they’re pretty lame.  Meanwhile, a recent tipster to RopeofSilicon claimed, among other things, that WB is planning a sequel to Yes Man, with Jim Carrey.  Not big news in and of itself, but I think you have to admire the guy (or gal)’s style:

Hey there, just got word that an early WB screening went very well and everyone at Warner is very excited for this flick. So excited they have apparently put together an idea for the sequel. I was in the screening and Jim Carrey was there too and he was part of the pitch along with screenwriter Nicholas Stoller and director Peyton Reed who all seemed really excited about their idea.

At the end of Yes Man Jim Carrey’s character is told to kill himself sort of like a dare, but the person that tells him doesn’t know he is saying “Yes” to everything so when Jim steps in front of a bus and dies it is really shocking but also really funny. I mean, the whole movie is funny because he says yes to everything, even like drinking a bunch of Red Bull, which is really funny because he talks really fast just like when people drink a lot of Red Bull. He also does a bunch of things like guitar lessons and stuff.

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