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Hot on the heels of the announcement that Adam Sandler’s shaken hands with Netflix to make four films exclusively for Apple TV screens, Warner Bros has abandoned plans to make the funnyman’s long-gestating “Ridiculous Six” – a zany western in the vein of “A Million Ways to Die in the West” (or, for lack of a better example, “The Quick and the Undead”).
An insider told The Hollywood Reporter that WB’s decision to axe the film has nothing to do with Sandler’s Netflix deal but, I dunno, it’s a bit coincidental right? And let’s admit it, Sandler’s definitely discounting himself by removing himself from the big screen for… four movies. He becomes a comedic Steven Seagal for the next two or three years, serving up ‘loungeroom’ entertainment only. It makes sense that a big studio wouldn’t want to hire someone who is on a different page than they are.
Not to say I’m not all for Netflix, I love it, and I love the original content they’re doing, but this is how it looks to me : Warner don’t want to bother with a ‘Streaming Movie’ Star.
Having said that, this isn’t the first time “Ridiculous Six” has been shelved – it’s been passed around from studio to studio for years (It’s likely – if WB frees it for good – that it’ll now be one of Sandler’s four Netflix projects.) It could be that Warners simply has tastes, and smells shit.
Meanwhile, Sony say they won’t be dissolving their long-term relationship with Sandler and will continue to work with him; he has quite a few movies in the works over there, including the you-know-you-want-it “Grown Ups 3”.
