‘Home Alone’ Actor Daniel Stern Says He Was The Original Director Of ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’

The thing was whenRookiecame out, I got a ton of offers to direct other films.

I got to sock some of this away.'

It was on a few years ago about the atomic bomb.

Daniel Stern in ‘Home Alone’ (L) and Jim Carrey in ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’)20th Century Fox Film Corp. / Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection

I thought for one second about directingFor All Mankind.

I wouldnt be able to pull it off.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detectivewas released in 1994, starringJim Carrey.