After the success of Uncut Gems, it seems that Adam Sandler and the Safdie Brothers are working on something new.
If you liked Uncut Gems, here’s some good news for you: Adam Sandler is reportedly reuniting with Safdie Brothers – the duo who directed Uncut Gems – for a new project.
As IndieWire reports, Adam Sandler and the Safdie Brothers are ‘cooking up another project’. Whether this will be the follow-up to the acclaimed 2019 thriller about a gambling-addicted jeweller or something else entirely is yet to be seen – there have been no details as of yet.
If true, this will be the Safdie Brothers’ third team-up with Sandler after the aforementioned Uncut Gems and Goldman vs Silverman. The director duo has also raved about Sandler in the past, claiming that they had always wanted to work with him ever since watching his movies in the 90s.
In fact, when discussing who should play the lead in Uncut Gems – which some call the performance of Sandler’s career – Sandler was one of their first choices.
“He was a funny, likeable Jewish actor, which gave us an affinity with him,” Benny Safdie told Inews in 2020, before letting slip that they had approached Sandler for a project in as early as 2011.
“We had directed one film together, and we decided that we were ready for him. So around 2011, we approached his people, and we didn’t get a response. Of course we didn’t, who were we?” Benny said, before admitting that they tried contacting him again in 2014, once again to no success.
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Lucky for them, the time period gave them time to develop Uncut Gems. Once Sandler saw their Robert Pattinson-starrer Good Time, he expressed interest in working with the duo, who knew exactly what he was slated for.
“To keep that frenetic pace up and know when to pause, and make the pause impactful, that’s someone who has the character down.” Bendy Safdie said of Sandler’s Howard Ratner.
“He doesn’t back down. There are a lot of times when we see a Jewish character on screen, and he’s a little nebbish and pushed over, and Howard is the opposite.” he added.
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