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linkAdam Sandler's Happy Madison to Produce 'Summer School' Remake
Happy Madison, the production banner run by Adam Sandler and Jack Giaraputo, is in negotiations to come aboard to produce Paramount’s planned remake of Summer School.
School was a light 1987 comedy directed by Carl Reiner that starred Mark Harmon as a gym teacher forced to cancel his summer plans and teach an English class filled with oddballs and rebels. The film also featured a young Courtney Thorne-Smith.
Paramount has been trying to remake the film since 2005, but the project has been stuck in development detention. Jordan Kerner, the producer behind The Smurfs and Charlotte’s Web, initially was backing a version that would have made the teacher hard-nosed (as opposed to Harmon's laid-back character) and squaring off against one mischievous student.
Another incarnation, this one around 2010, involved Star Trek writer-producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
By bringing aboard Sandler and Giaraputo, the studio is signaling that it hopes to bring a more comedic focus to the project. Sandler is not attached to star in the project, which soon will hire writers.
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Happy Madison did make Grandma's Boy.
I heard they were going after Willem Defoe as Mr. Shoop.
I can't believe anyone would pay to watch this . People like 90210 are the reason this garbage keeps getting produced.
No mention of Kirstie Alley and the future Alotta ina? Journalism at its poorest.
Also, this bull . Even if they weren't talking about screwing with a movie that I liked after Jack and Jill the Happy Madison offices needed to be burned to the ground and Sandler sent to rehab. I don't even think Sandler has a drinking or drug problem, but we've come to an undeniable point where he needs to be locked up somewhere and forced to confront how his decisions are hurting himself and the people around him.
are you ing kidding me? like summer school is some sort of sacred ground that should never be touched?
there's far more remakes worth ing about than a remake of ing Summer School.
Yes. Summer school was a perfect 80's movie. No reason to with it.
there's far more remakes worth ing about than a remake of ing Summer School.
Summer School licked taint. If they were remaking Ferris Bueller's Day Off or some , I'd see a reason to . Not for this crap.
Well, Adam Sandler did such a good job with the remake of Longest Yard that you know his Summer School will totally rock!
People are giving Sandler money, that's the problem. And indicative of how out of touch Hollywood is.
Jack and Jill made $147,758,157 on a $79M budget. Hollywood isn't out of touch. In fact, producers are probably as shocked as we are that people are actually spending $10 per ticket to watch this.
You're re ed. Summer School, while not on the level of Ferris Bueller, or Breakfast Club, or anything like that, it was still funny as at the time. And I can see someone trying to remake Ferris Bueller because it was a classic. Not that I would want to see it but at least it's understandable. Why the dig up Summer School? What are they going to do that makes it any better. Maybe add some hip hop music and emo kids?
Right, the MPAA is in touch with the general populace. Movie theaters are not slowly dying.
I don't know, nor do I care to look up movie theater revenue/profits throughout the US.
I was more referring to Hollywood not being out of touch as it pertains to Adam Sandler movies. People are paying to see his movies and there is certainly a profit to be made. Why wouldn't studios continue to produce his films? Are you possibly out of touch with the way production companies work?
http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-th...jack-and-jill/
Everybody should watch this (extremely long) review of Jack and Jill if they have the time. It raises some good points on why Jack and Jill's budget was so high.
Happy Madison is the production company. Production companies generally don't finance movies.
that piece of jack and jill made 140 mil
its you peoples fault for going to his movies
I'd rather not hear an explanation on the dynamics of film financing and the level to which studios, production companies and their investors are involved. Especially from someone who thinks "Hollywood" is out of touch for making a movie that made $68M+ over their budget.
Will you all please stop watching his ty movies?
They better leave "can't buy me love" alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll freely admit it's not a great movie. In a lot ways I think there could probably be a dozen "misfits vs. the establishment" 80s comedies that could have come along when I was an impressionable kid and would have been just as funny to me, I just happened to see Summer School first and it quickly found its way into the rainy afternoon VHS rotation at my house growing up. So in that sense there's a more personal stake in it than if they were talking remaking one of the big 80s cultural touchstones like Bueller. I think everyone has an underappreciated film or two that they have a soft spot for, this is just one of mine.
The other thing is the point cantthinkofanything is making. They're talking about remaking a film that wasn't exactly brimming with original ideas in the first place. It took a formula with low ambitions and executed it well; it's the exact opposite of a film that needs remaking. This wasn't some near miss gem that didn't reach its potential because of budget constraints or studio politics or technological limits. Can you really "remake" something that is the product of a formula that's been used time and time again before and since the original? It's less that Summer School is some sort of American masterpiece that deserves defense so much as this idea is the lazy even by Hollywood's drooping standards and deserves to be upon.
LOL
I know a guy that was a producer on lots of Sandlers early stuff that apparently came to the same conclusion. He won't work for him anymore.
Me too! I know that dude!
Summer school was badass. Why remake good movies? Remake ty movies so you at least have a shot at improving the product
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