Sunday
01Jun2008
Sandler, Apatow, Rogen to Make "Hilarious" Drama About Comedy
Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 5:58PM 
Former roommates
Judd Apatow and
Adam Sandler teamed
up for
You Don't Mess With the Zohan, which will probably do Sandler-like
business when it hit theaters next week. But they won't wait long to work
together again.
Sandler tells MTV that they'll be making a movie about
life on the stand-up comedy circuit, which co-star
Seth Rogen told a crowd at
a Q & A is "hilarious by default." Sandler seems to have some misgivings about
the concept.
"I've got to write an act again. It's been a long time. I haven't done
stand-up in, like, 10 years. Even more," admitted Adam. "That's why I want to
kill Judd Apatow right now. I was so much happier doing nothing!"
Sandler confirms that he'll probably try his act out in the comedy clubs of
Los Angeles later this summer, trying to sharpen his skills. "You will see me
bomb for 15 minutes and walk off [the stage] and punch Judd," Sandler said.
Just because it's about comedy doesn't mean this is just a comedy, though.
"It's a comedy, but it has more drama in it. A hilarious drama is what I'm
going for," explains Apatow. "Every movie, I'm trying to find a way to go
deeper, to tell stories about subjects that are important and make them less
and less broad while making them equally as funny. [This film is] another step
in that progression.
While saying he and his friends were "baffled" by how funny Apatow's script
is, Sandler also believes a lot of it is "pretty heartbreaking."
MTV has more on the story, and
the untitled film is scheduled to be
released on July 31, 2009.
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