Adam Sandler Film Has Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade Playing Gay Dads

[romantico]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 3:43pm

Yet ANOTHER remake. Considering Adam Sandler is not the best actor out there with a good standing with the GLBT Community,I say let this one go Adam.


Sandler is considering a reboot of Walt Disney Picture's Three Men and a Baby, the 1987 hit starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson as three straight bachelors whose lives are turned upside down when someone unexpectedly leaves a baby on their New York City doorstep.

Sandler is 'toying' with the idea of turning the swinging bachelor trio into three gay men in a committed relationship.

http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=9089&MediaType=1&Category=4

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 3:51pm

I believe there's already a THREE MEN AND A BRIDE film being planned staring the original 3, so wouldn't this conflict with that?
Updated On: 7/31/11 at 03:51 PM

[AC126748]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 4:03pm

Sandler is 'toying' with the idea of turning the swinging bachelor trio into three gay men in a committed relationship.

A committed polyamorous relationship?

[romantico]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 4:06pm

Had not heard about that Jordan but yeah,I would think it would. Then again, this is Hollywood so I guess there is no stopping them from doing both if they want. With the cast and Adam Sandler's involvement it would probably be a hit and that is all Disney/Hollywood is thinking about.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 4:11pm

I have nothing against Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, etc. but for some reason the three of them playing gay men to me is the equivalent of Sandler doing a film in blackface. I just find it offensive because I know it will just be 90 minutes of stereotypical gay jokes to make the straight men in America laugh at us.

I remember being invited to a screening of I KNOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY a few years ago and getting up in the middle of it and storming out. A studio representative outside asked me if I was ok and I told her that No, I was not ok. I told her they had managed to make one of the most offensive pieces of shlt I'd ever seen and I'm going to make it my mission to tell every gay person I know to stay as far away from it as possible. I just have a feeling it'll be the same thing all over again with this new one, if he does it.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 4:23pm

"Three gay men in a committed relationship"?

Sounds like something that will play right into the the antigay meme that gay marriage will open the floodgates to bigamy.

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 4:37pm

I would guess that it's a typo. I think it's more likely "three gay men in committed relationships".

[AC126748]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 4:45pm

If that's the case, madbrian, wouldn't that change the set-up completely. It's been a while since I've seen the original, but it's three bachelor roommates, right?

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 5:42pm

Wow, seriously? Three gay men in a committed relationship? I'm actually all for new ways of thinking about marriage, family, etc and if someone like say John Cameron Mitchell was making a movie about three gay men in a committed relationship NOT starring this team I'd be at least intrigued. However, having someone like Sandler who seems to be making a career out of insulting the gay population and people like Chris Rock (whose comment re the fact that he never thought he'd be at the Tonys during this year's ceremony was dripping with implied homophobia and a sort of anti-theatre sentiment) and Rob Schneider are clearly just doing exactly what PalJoey said. Let the paranoia over gay marriage and what it's gonna do to the poor American family nucleus begin (or rather, continue)

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 5:43pm

It was advertised as three bachelors, though Tom Selleck's character had a girlfriend in the first one (and of course ended up with Sylvia in the sequel)

[Kad]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 5:53pm

I was thinking the same thing, ray. If it were any other group, I'd be intrigued. But with those names, you already know what to expect: juvenile and homophobic humor, racist stereotypes, female objectification, and a half-assed "moral" shoehorned in at the end that doesn't mesh with the 90 minutes that came before it.

Sandler and the rest of this group are in their mid-forties. They need to stop acting like high schoolers.

[romantico]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 6:00pm

I'll see it if they can get Marcus Bachman to do a cameo. (I love how Keith Olberman now refers to Marcus as Ladybird Bachman)

Some friends and I were discussing not long ago how we can easily see Hollywood remaking THE BIRDCAGE very soon.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 7:08pm

Just shoot me now.

Isnt there someone else Sandler can go off and offend?

[Jon]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 7:50pm

Well, I suppose he could go back to his passive-aggressive affection/mockery of the elderly.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 7:55pm

I just assumed it was clumsily written and that it meant three gay men in committed relationships.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 8:00pm

So I'm guessing we'll get the slobbish gay couple (ala The Sarah Silverman Show), the overly effeminate gay couple who collect Marie Odmond dolls an burst into showtunes and the "butch" couple who love football but are too stupid to care about much else other than that and working out.

Sound about right?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 8:05pm

Probably. I just hope the ghost is in the remake!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 8:08pm

It'll be a gay ghost. Paul Lynde, probably.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 8:08pm

I have nothing against Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, etc. but for some reason the three of them playing gay men to me is the equivalent of Sandler doing a film in blackface. I just find it offensive because I know it will just be 90 minutes of stereotypical gay jokes to make the straight men in America laugh at us.


That was sort of what I was thinking, Jordan. It's not like these guys are going to play it in a sensitive manner. And how can 3 people be in a committed relationship? I mean I guess they could technically, but that in and of itself just is weird.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 8:10pm

And I guess I don't see what them being gay would add to the story. "Jokes" about one of their past lives in the closet still doing women?

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 8:19pm

He's going polyamory

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 8:36pm

The original film is on HBO Family tonight at 8:45 if anyone is feeling nostalgic.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 7/31/11 at 8:50pm

Let's just hope that this dies on the vine like the recently proposed (and now abandoned, thank god) 3D remake of YELLOW SUBMARINE.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 8/1/11 at 12:42am

I'm worried since Sandler is so successful right now, his movies do really well so he might have some clout as a director. I'm wondering if any studio would approve that, though never put anything above Universal (can't remember if the article mentioned a specific studio though).
I can't believe how okay it is for people like Sandler to make these movies at the expense of gay people, women, people of color (I can only imagine what type of role Chris Rock will be playing), etc. And the worst part is people buy into his movies, ugh.

[Q]

Posted: 8/1/11 at 12:55am

"Zac Efron, Jonah Hill, and Justin Long"

Why not those three in a polyamorous relationship . . .