2 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: Willem Dafoe, Gaby Hoffmann, F. Murray Abraham, Steve Zahn And Adam Horovitz are group to subordinate Adam Sandler successful his adjacent Netflix pic Time Out from head Scott Cooper. Cooper will write, nonstop and nutrient pinch Tracey Landon serving arsenic exec producer.
Based connected nan movie L’Emploi Du Temps by Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo and follows, Vincent (Sandler), who aft being fired from his job, can’t bring himself to show his woman and family. Rather than uncover nan truth, he spins a web of lies to conceal his situation. He escalates his lies further erstwhile he creates an finance strategy and asks friends to contribute. His deception threatens to overwhelm his life and his family.
“I first encountered Laurent Cantet’s movie successful 2001, and it’s lived pinch maine ever since. I’ve been reasoning astir revisiting it for years, but now felt for illustration nan correct infinitesimal — we’re surviving successful a time where questions of identity, work, and self-worth person go intolerable to ignore.”
After spending a engaged autumn promoting his dramedy Jay Kelly, which earned him immoderate of nan champion reviews of his career, Sandler had his prime of projects to take from erstwhile it came to what he did next. After a engaged twelvemonth that besides included Happy Gilmore 2 breaking streaming records astatine nan streamer, Sandler took his clip while connected his drama circuit but kept coming backmost to nan Cooper book arsenic nan 1 he was astir that willing him nan astir and astatine nan apical of nan twelvemonth committed to nan project.
Once Sandler was connected board, nan ensemble came together rather quickly and accumulation is expected to commencement adjacent month.
Sandler is repped by WME, Dafoe is repped by WME and Circle Management + Production, Zahn is repped by UTA, Principal Entertainment LA and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern, Hoffmann is repped by Gersh and OPE Partners, Abraham is repped by Innovative Artists and Horovitz is repped by WME and Silva Artist Management.
