Adam Sandler‘s warm welcome in Hollywood has run its course with this “journalist”. Back in the days of Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore I couldn’t get enough of Sandler, but in the world of making movies if it doesn’t make millions of dollars it just isn’t worth making and that is how we get crapfests like Click, which, in turn, earn $137+ million at the box-office and even get nominated for an Oscar. Granted, 2006 may have been a far better year for movies than 2005, but some of those Oscar noms really shit the bed.
Anyway, as for this story, The Hollywood Reporter tells us that Columbia Pictures is going back to the Sandler well along with his buds Judd Apatow and Robert Smigel for You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, a comedy with Sandler attached to star. The picture follows the exploits of a Mossad agent who fakes his death so he can anonymously move to New York and become a hair stylist. Ahhh, that doesn’t sound generic enough. Could he possibly find a love interest that ultimately finds out who he really is, gets mad at him for lying about it and then ultimately falls back in love with him? Can’t help but wonder if that will be part of it.
Currently Smigel is penning a rewrite of the script with shooting scheduled to begin in the summer in Los Angeles and New York for a summer 2008 release.
Sandler will next be seen in another Columbia release Reign Over Me with Don Cheadle, which leads me to believe that with Don aboard it will be a bit less craptacular and a smidge more on the goodness side, but we shall soon see when it hits theaters on March 23.
