Leaving his cargo shorts and usual studio behind and heading west, toward the promise of funnier wigs and even disproportionately-hotter wives, Adam Sandler has left Sony to set up a comedic Western over at Paramount.
His recently-acquired Tonka truck collection proving too cumbersome for staging cool chase scenes across the back of a Denny's booth, Adam Sandler has bought some new, faster-looking toy cars to play with.
Bringing out their toy boats didn't win the attention of the adults in the room, so now Hasbro is going to try excitedly showing off their impressive Tonka collection.
Despite making so, so many terrible comedies, Adam Sandler has maintained some slim illusion of standards by at least always starring in original painfully-high-concept premises--never resorting to a sequel, no matter how much Click 2: Wackier Remote would have inevitably made. Soon, it seems that will all change, as Sony Pictures and Sandler's Happy Madison Productions are now in talks to start to develop a sequel to 2010's abysmal Bad Boys of SNL reunion (-Farley, +Paul Blart), Grown Ups.
The original film played out as if it were just some dudes chumming around with their unusually attractive wives in tow, but, as the scenes of Steve Buscemi filling Rob Schneider's standard cameo implied, it was actually written by someone. That man was Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star and Joe Dirt screenwriter Fred Wolf, and he is negotiating to write the sequel as well. Unless Wolf decides to do a complete 180, turning Grown Ups 2 into a cautionary dystopian black comedy with all the Grown Up heads in jars atop robot bodies in the year 10,000 AD, expect another inoffensive, pleasant hang-out session that will gross $300 million worldwide. But at least now there's hope for Jack & Jill 2: Sadelstein Family Reunion.
Just over a month ago, the internet wires lit up with praise for Pixels, Patrick Jean's two-and-a-half minute short about old school video game characters attacking Manhattan, turning it into pixels. It had to be expected the internet would like such a thing--literally anything involving a retro video game in a slightly revised context is popular on the internet--but you know who else liked it who isn't officially counted in the broad category of "the internet"? Adam Sandler. According to Heat Vision, Sandler saw the short and decided (probably in the voice of Opera Man, Waterboy, or a variation thereof), "It's time to make a feature-length film out of this thing! Ah-doob-ah-doo!":
The French filmmaker behind “Pixels,” Patrick Jean, has teamed up with Adam Sandler’s production banner Happy Madison to develop a big-screen take. The team is in talks with Columbia, where Happy Madison has its first-look deal, to set up the project at the studio.The project is still in the early stages and no writer is on board but the plan is to make a “Ghostbusters”-style action comedy in which characters come out of a video game to wreak havoc in the real world.
And for those of you who like your news in the form of increasingly obscure television references: Adam Sandler is producing a film that will be that episode of Futurama where old video game characters attack the city meets the concept of villains emerging from a video game, like in the episode of Nightmares where that happens to Emilio Estevez. OK?
Here's the Pixels short, in case you missed it:
If St. Peter is anything like me, this picture will be Tyra's admission ticket to heaven.
In case you haven't heard (oh wait, I'm supposed to tell you about this kind of stuff, right?), Happy Madison is working on a sorority comedy with a mostly female cast. Anna Faris will play a Playboy bunny who gets kicked out of the mansion and becomes house mother to the lamest sorority on campus. McPhee will reportedly be playing a "pregnant hippie chick".
The pic was written by the duo behind Legally Blonde and will also star Emma Stone, Rumer Willis, and Kat Dennings. And probably a couple people Sandler went to high school with.
Okay, so normally I'd be embarrassed to write an American Idol-related post, but what can I say? She's got big jugs. Throw some big jugs on those starving Ethiopian kids and hell, I'd probably become a professional fly shoo-er.
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