Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
Free market is a motherfukker @DEAD7wait so brehs actually conceptualized an Adam Sandler movie and didn't get paid for it?
talk about hustlin backwards!!!
Come up with Adam Sandler movie premises.UPDATE: Adam makes a new movie using our ideas
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Lou Levinmeister (Sandler) is a big-shot politician who only looks out for the wealthiest voters. After getting caught in a gigolo scandal and losing the support of the rich, Levinmeister agrees to live as a homeless person for 30 days to build up his voter-base among the poor.
Will Lou learn anything living on the street begging for change? Will his experience give him the perspective he needs to be a politician for all?
Don't miss: Lou's Change
This is Life Stinks.... but not for nothing Adam would kill it in a remake of that movie
The Story Behind the Grown Ups 3 Script That’s Taken Over Comedy Twitter
The Story Behind the Grown Ups 3 Script That’s Taken Over Comedy Twitter
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When most people went on the internet Monday, they weren’t expecting to care about another Grown Ups movie. People have been largely dismissive of the Grown Ups franchise, even right now when Adam Sandler is arguably being embraced by journalists in a way he’s never experienced. But in comes Tom Scharpling, host of The Best Show and writer-producer on comedy nerd–approved shows like What We Do in the Shadows and Nathan for You, and his script for Grown Ups 3. To be clear, no one — NO ONE — asked him to write this, most of all not Sandler. He had an idea for a new installment in the Adam Sandler Hanging Out With His Friends franchise that he loved so much, he just had to write it. The result is like no Sandler movie, while also being very much like all of them. See, while the script has two giant unprecedented twists (spoiler alert) — the movie is about the making of Grown Ups 3 with the stars actually playing themselves, and a masked killer is methodically murdering them — it is still an Adam Sandler movie.
Scharpling, an unexpectedly passionate Sandler fan, aspired to be faithful to the Sandman’s tone and style. Though he pokes fun at Sandler and his friends’ public images, the script is loving. And it really works! As a person who has watched every Sandler movie, I can see Scharpling’s Grown Ups 3working seamlessly into the canon, exploring themes that Sandler has long been interested in. And people freaking loved it, with Adam McKay saying it “would be on my top five list for the year” and Peyton Reed saying he wants to direct it.
Scharpling told me the idea in passing three years ago, though like most people he probably told it to, I never thought he’d actually go through with it. Once I saw he did, I read it and quickly realized I needed to interview him. On Wednesday afternoon, two days after it dropped and dominated Comedy Twitter, we spoke. Check out the script here or at GrownUps3Script.com, and read our conversation below.
Al Pacino gives this performance; it’s no less committed than he would be for Godfather II.
He just makes these things, and they’re fun and sometimes they’re dumb, and sometimes they’re tone-deaf, but … I don’t know, the proof is in the body of work with him. And all I can say is that I have yet to meet the person that would turn down getting paid a lot of money to go make a movie in a fun location with their friends. I don’t know where exactly the downside to that is in terms of just quality of life. So the low grade sometimes, whatever — what are you going to do?
So how did this idea go from a funny idea you might tweet to something you actually decided to write?
Well, it was an idea I had years ago, and it was one of those ideas that you joke around with a couple friends and it’s like, “Oh, wouldn’t it be funny if that existed? Can you imagine?” But then you never get off the runway with it, and it just ends up being a joke and it’s like, “Someday I’m going to do that.” And then there was a day where I was like, “You know what? I’m actually gonna do that. I don’t know if it’s going to be ten pages long, I don’t know if it’s going to be 130 pages long. I just need to just say I did this and I know the idea works.” I had thought through so much of it, so I just wrote it in three days. I started off Friday. It was finished on a Sunday night and showed it to people on Monday morning. You know what? That’s two days. I did it Friday night to Sunday.
Why did you think it was a good idea, and why do you think it was a good idea for Adam?
I thought it was a good idea because it was just like a genre switch. If this existed, I would be standing outside the theater in line begging for a ticket to see this. There’s such a familiarity with him and everybody feels like they know him, but I don’t know who actually knows him outside of people who actually know him. He’s probably our most successful mystery because he just doesn’t talk. He just doesn’t tell people stuff. He doesn’t have some compulsion to show his playbook to anybody who would look. He keeps it a mystery, and I think it’s been to his benefit.
And also, the idea of just trying to kill off like half the Grown Ups is too awesome, and trying to give everyone a different death scene. So the idea hung around in my head and I finally did it. I was just like, “This is literally the most fun I’ve ever had writing.”
I wanted to talk about the tone of it, because I think a lot of people probably went into reading it assuming it was going to be making fun of Sandler and these movies. But I think the thing that I love most is you captured how sweet and heavyhearted he is and how important his friends are to him. Even though you wrote this for fun, what did you want the movie to get across?
It’s funny — I was hoping it would keep being surprising all the way through, and it would just keep shifting the goals of the thing to where it suddenly becomes like … It’s a Grown Ups movie that becomes a behind-the-scenes movie that becomes a slasher film that becomes this kind of meditation on aging and the inevitability of irrelevance that happens to everyone. If you just stay around, then you lose at some point. Nobody ever beats show business, show business beats everybody. It doesn’t matter how great you are. At some point your number comes up, and that’s kind of what it’s about in a way. That’s how it felt. That’s what I was kind of channeling into.
It’s turned into this strange kind of Rorschach test, where people who like those movies are just like, “I read it and it’s clear how much it’s like, yeah, you poke fun at it and you’d know the thing, but it’s clear how much love you ultimately have for him and for the movies.” And then people who hate him are just like, “Man, I read that and it’s clear how much you hate him. It’s clear you eviscerated him.” And then other people are like, “I read it and it’s incredibly sad and moving.” It’s kind of all of those things at once, but people’s biases are definitely revealed when when they read it because they just show what their baggage is with this guy and the career he’s had.
Was there a character or part that was most fun to write?
David Spade jokes were so much fun because his voice is so distinct and is so funny and so singular. And that’s one of the things that people are like, “Oh man, you nailed his voice. You got his voice down.” A writer on his show was just like, “Holy shyt, you wrote for him really well.” The whole thing is about the line between comedy and tragedy, also. They’re an inch apart, and the idea of giving Kevin James this kind of Miller’s Crossing–type death scene where he’s going through all the stages, bargaining and anger, and just the pride that he can buy his way out of this … It’s like, yeah, I would want to see him do a real death scene. That’d be amazing. Who wouldn’t want to see that?
The card on the gift basket the killer sends ends with “and never forget your art is your life and your life is your art.” As a person who has a public persona in which you’re playing a version of yourself, is this something you related to?
Well, I think when you get to a good place with it, then that should start to become truer and truer. As you get better at what you do, the line that divides your art from your life should get more and more narrow to where they almost are just a smear. I mean, when I get to do stuff on the radio or whatever, when there’s no demarcation lines, the better the stuff gets and the more it means to people.
And to pull off the career that Sandler’s pulled off is like … I mean, he really is one of the best people ever in show business in terms of the success. He’s just so smart to know when to change gears. For that guy to know that it’s like, All right, it’s time for me to do a stand-up thing. Nobody thought that’s what he would do next, but he knew it and he did it and people are like, Oh my God, it’s the best — because it is. And for him to be at this point where he’s getting into Uncut Gems, it’s like, Oh man, he just took it to the next level somehow — like he still had another thing he didn’t show us yet.
Do you know who the masked man is? Is it a specific person? If not, what sort of person are they? What is motivating them?
It’s just the inevitability of failure and irrelevance. That’s why at the end of the thing, Seth Rogen is getting ready to do Neighbors 3. It’s like his number will come up soon, too. Time catches up with everyone. That’s all it’s about.
I imagine through people you know and just people in comedy who read it, the script will at least get in front of all the guys. What do you hope they think of it?
I would hope that they would realize that it’s just kind of giving them the business in a fun way that isn’t truly mean-spirited and is having fun with their public personas and the characters they play and the characters they played in Grown Ups, and how close they were to who they are. This is not meant to be some evisceration of them — at least I didn’t mean it to be. Maybe it is and I didn’t mean it to be, I don’t know. But it was not by design. It was meant to just be funny and to create something I would love to see.
You’ve, maybe jokingly, said it’s the best thing you’ve ever done. Why are you so proud of it?
Because the thing it’s actually about is just something so heavy and not funny and so profoundly sad: that time claims all of us. No matter what we do or how successful we are, time catches up to all of us. And the idea that this guy, the suffering that he would feel going through this with his friends, would just turn into more commerce again. And that, in a way, he died also. When his friends died, he died.
I’d say the ending, which is really beautiful and sad, is maybe the part that feels least like an Adam Sandler movie, because usually his movies have sad parts but they do not end sad.
Well, you should check out Uncut Gems.
Gonna go through this thread to see if someone called Hubie Halloween
Fact he's playing a character called Stanley Sugarman in his new film had me 
and reminded me of this thread
and reminded me of this thread
Adam Sandler is Billy Gold, a 40-something year old middle school teacher who has never played or had any interest sports, but one day in a faculty basketball game he scores 200 points! He suddenly realizes basketball is his true talent. He begins playing streetball all around New York City and dominates to the point where NBA players & teams take notice.
After signing with the New York Knicks, winning an NBA title, taking the sports world by storm & living the awesome life of being the NBA's newest star....he must choose between his true talent & his true love of teaching children. Will he give it all up and go back to teaching?
Adam Sandler stars in: One Shot
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Bruhhhhh....
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
Tell me that plot didnt sound like another ludicrous Sandler movie tho.I wastill I saw the date posted
I literally just copied and pasted this into chatgpt, lol
Write a movie script based on the following:
Adam Sandler plays Jerry Bergstein an erratic, degenerate gambler who tricks a gullible superstar athlete into buying a rock he thinks gives him magical powers. But now Jerry is under pressure by ruthless bookies to pay them back, he must make the most ludicrous bet of all time to save his ife, marriage and business in this hilarious film for all ages!
Title: The Rock Bet
FADE IN:
EXT. LAS VEGAS STRIP - NIGHT
The bright lights of the Vegas strip shine down on JERRY BERGSTEIN, a disheveled, middle-aged man with a crazed look in his eye. He's frantically walking from casino to casino, trying to avoid the menacing stares of the BOOKIES who are hot on his tail.
JERRY
(to himself)
Come on, come on, where is he?
Suddenly, Jerry spots his target: a massive, hulking athlete named TYRELL JACKSON. He's surrounded by a crowd of adoring fans, all clamoring for his attention.
Jerry makes his way through the crowd and approaches Tyrell.
JERRY
(introducing himself)
Hi, I'm Jerry Bergstein. I'm a big fan of yours.
Tyrell looks at Jerry skeptically.
TYRELL
What do you want?
JERRY
I have something that could change your life.
Jerry pulls out a small rock from his pocket.
JERRY (CONT'D)
This is a magic rock. It's been blessed by a shaman and it has the power to give you superhuman strength and agility.
Tyrell looks at Jerry, unimpressed.
TYRELL
You expect me to believe that?
JERRY
(lying)
I swear it's true. And I'll prove it to you. Take this rock and hold it in your hand. You'll feel the power coursing through your veins.
Tyrell hesitates for a moment, but then takes the rock from Jerry.
TYRELL
(skeptical)
Okay, I'm holding it. Now what?
JERRY
Now, you'll feel the power.
Jerry steps back and watches as Tyrell closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. Suddenly, he opens his eyes and lets out a mighty roar.
TYRELL
I feel it! I feel the power!
The crowd around them starts to cheer and Jerry can see the dollar signs in his future.
JERRY
(to himself)
Jackpot!
But Jerry's celebration is short-lived. As he's making his way back to his hotel room, he's ambushed by the bookies. They demand that he pay them back the thousands of dollars he owes them, or else.
JERRY
(fearful)
I don't have the money. But I have a plan.
Jerry proposes a bet to the bookies. He'll bet on Tyrell in the upcoming championship game, with the magic rock as the stake. If Tyrell wins, Jerry gets the money to pay off the bookies. If Tyrell loses, the bookies get the rock.
The bookies agree, thinking they have an easy win.
As the championship game approaches, Jerry starts to have doubts about his plan. He knows that Tyrell is a talented athlete, but he's also superstitious. What if he loses without the magic rock?
JERRY
(to himself)
I need to make sure this bet pays off.
Jerry hatches a plan to sneak into Tyrell's hotel room and steal the rock back. He succeeds, but just as he's leaving, he's caught by Tyrell.
TYRELL
(angry)
What the hell are you doing in my room?
JERRY
(apologetic)
I'm sorry, I was just trying to make sure you won the game. The bookies were after me and I needed the money to pay them off.
Tyrell looks at Jerry, then down at the rock in his hand.
TYRELL
(disa ppointed)
So it was all a lie? There's no magic rock?
JERRY
(regretful)
No, there isn't. I'm sorry.
TYRELL
(sighing)
Adam Sandler is Richie Tates, a popular internet influencer/dating coach. Who has a history of mistreating women. Gets in a tragic car accident after a one night stand. He now wakes up as a woman. And faces the struggles and hardships that many women go through. Of course in a comedic fashion. Is Richie going to learn his lesson? Or will he stick to his misogynistic ways? Find out in This Woman’s WorthIn this movie he enjoys it at first, then things go wrong, and he learns a lesson at the end.
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Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
Just punch in, Adam Sandler movie plot synopsis.
See if AI can top ours. I doubt it.
Oh for sure it can't beat our ideas. It's just good at adding more color (detail)