The much-ballyhooed reteaming of Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz for Focus Features' A LITTLE GAME WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE has turned out to be short-lived.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Both Carrey and Diaz have exited the project, which was announced in early September. The movie's director, Gabriele Muccino, also has departed.

Production was to have started this month in New York. Sources cited problems with the script as the principal reason for the departures. The script was said to have gone in a different direction than the actors expected when they became involved.

Allan Loeb ("Things We Lost in the Fire") penned a draft of the screenplay based on a play by Jean Dell and Gerald Sibleyras, which also was turned into the 2004 French film "Un petit jeu sans consequence," written by Bernard Rapp. Muccino wrote the most recent draft.