A long time ago, we learned that Netflix had signed up to make not one, not two, not three, but four new Adam Sandler movies. At the time, some of us held out hope that the creative freedom afforded by the streaming giant might spurn Sandler onto a new level of creativity, perhaps even a return to comedic form. Instead, we got The Ridiculous 6 and The Do-Over.
And now another one's on the way. Behold, the trailer for Netflix and Adam Sandler's Sandy Wexler.
So, there's very little to go on here. We get a setting (Los Angeles), a specific timeframe (1994), and Sandler wearing a full-on dad outfit while doing a silly voice (as the titular Sandy Wexler). Clearly, we haven't seen enough to make an informed judgment call. We can make an informed assumption, and I think we will, but anything beyond that would, technically-speaking, be unfair.
Broadway World (of all places) has a pretty solid rundown of what Sandy Wexler will entail:
Sandy Wexler (Adam Sandler) is a talent manager working in Los Angeles in the 1990s who diligently represents a group of eccentric clients on the fringes of show business. His single-minded devotion is put to the test when he falls in love with his newest client, Courtney Clarke (Academy Award® and Grammy® winner Jennifer Hudson), a tremendously talented singer who he discovers at an amusement park.
Nope. I definitely can't think of any way that this might go disastrously wrong.
In addition to Jennifer Hudson and Adam Sandler, Sandy Wexler will also star Kevin James, Terry Crews, Lamorne Morris, Nick Swardson, Rob Schneider, Jane Seymour, Aaron Neville and Arsenio Hall. Please keep all of these people in your thoughts and prayers (well, maybe not all of them) as we careen ever closer Sandy Wexler's April 14th premiere on Netflix