FilmRot.com’s “The RotCast”: Episode #23: The Revenge of the Podcast Nerds »

Filed under: Comedy, Deals, Sony
Adam Sandler is re-teaming with one of his most frequent directors, Dennis Dugan, for You Don’t Mess With the Zohan. We recently brought you news on the film, in which Sandler will play a Mossad agent who fakes his death so he can move to New York and become a hairstylist. Regardless of how this project turns out, it’s refreshing to hear a premise that doesn’t sound exactly like everything else. Rob Schneider, who has made quite the career of playing strangely accented dudes in Sandler films, has signed on to play a East Yistannen cab driver. Sandler wrote the screenplay with two of today’s greatest comedy minds: Judd Apatow (I’m seeing Knocked Up tonight — jealous?) and Robert Smigel, who has written some of the greatest bits ever to appear on Late Night With Conan O’Brien and Saturday Night Live.
Dugan has worked with Sandler before […]

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