Despite his continued efforts to get serious with the likes of Punch-Drunk Love and Reign Over Me, Adam Sandler still needs to pay the mortgage. And his bread and butter have always been very silly – or schmaltzy – comedies.
He’s back in funny town for Bedtime Stories, which will mark his first ever Disney movie (not counting films he’s made for Touchstone). With a Christmas 2008 release looming, the film finds a busy real estate developer whose life is thrown into chaos when the stories he tells his niece and nephew start to come true.
It all sounds like a recipe for standard Sandler fare, and that feeling is boosted by the presence of journeyman comedy helmer Adam Shankman, who will work on the movie after finishing up Hairspray.
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Meanwhile, Sandler will next attempt to bring the funny with I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry this summer, and is about to start work on You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, about a Mossad agent who fakes his death so he can move to New York and become a hair stylist. Yeah, that old story…
