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According to THR, Adam Sandler’s next movie will be Hello Ghost, a comedy about a guy who keeps trying to kill himself. It’s fitting, because I’ve had to sit through the Grown Ups 2 trailer twice already this week, and that already looks like Adam Sandler’s suicide note.
Adam Sandler is teaming up with Chris Columbus for Hello Ghost, a remake of a Korean supernatural comedy just set up at Universal.
The full movie appears to be online, in case you want to watch that.
Ghost centers on a man who, after attempting to kill himself, is plagued by the arrival of four ghosts. They won’t leave him in peace until he helps them amend their past by granting them one wish.
Karen Croner (Admission) wrote the script for the remake. [THR]
The bright spot in all of this is at least they got a real director, and not one of Sandler’s buddies, like Frank Coraci or Dennis Dugan. And I say that knowing full well that, excepting Harry Potters (which I haven’t seen), Chris Columbus hasn’t directed anything approaching a good movie since 1990. The most fascinating thing about Adam Sandler, and I say this as a guy who gets misty-eyed about his old comedy albums and still believes that he has an inner reserve of funny buried somewhere beneath the layers of accumulated paychecks and half-assed pandering, is that he can constantly flip off the audience and still come back for encores.
Also, this being a remake of a Korean movie, part of me wishes Adam Sandler would have to do the whole movie stretching his eyes out and doing a ching chong Mickey Rooney accent. Which he might. Only time will tell.
Imagine the balls it takes to think that “chocolate wasted” joke was funny enough to devote an entire flashback to it.
I’ll admit, the original does look delightfully bizarre:
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Any chance he’ll taken on the role by method acting?
This being a remake of a Korean movie, I wish someone would kidnap Adam Sandler and keep him in solitary confinement for 15 years.
I’m sure someone’s sister killed themselves after watching Jack and Jill.
The Harry Potter movies Columbus didn’t direct were way better than the ones he did. Imagine if Ratner had directed the first X-Men and then they got Singer, and people were all damn, dude unruined this shit.
I didn’t think Columbus did a particularly bad job on his Potter films, it’s just that once Alfonso Cuarón and the new Dumbledore came in, it was lights out for everyone else.
1. I didn’t really think it through and assumed your reference to ‘Harry Potters’ was some kind of porn parody.
2. ‘Funny People’ was, to me, Adam Sandler fully admitting that almost all of his output in the past 10 years has been insultingly stupid. I don’t know whether him admitting that is better or worse.
Completely agreed about “Funny People.” Can’t say I blame the guy for just phoning it in, though – the original “Grown Ups” make 300% more money. Hell, even “Jack and Jill” made 50% more.
Why try when not trying is so much more lucrative?
Getting Chris Columbus and Adam Sandler to do this movie completely ensures that the “delightfully bizarre” will be completely stripped from the remake.
Oh, knowing Sandler I imagine he will keep the gross-out eating scenes.
I really think the best idea would be for Sandler to play the protagonist AND all four of the ghost roles.
And by “best idea” I mean “a film that would cause a wave of actual suicides across the world.”
Ah, I see this is the Harold and Maude sequel, Harold, we’ve all been waiting for.
So, it’s Robert Downey Jr.’s “Heart and Souls” movie with a dumbass twist?
If anyone knows Supernatural Comedy, it’s the Koreans.
Adam Sandler = Eddie Murphy but with better box office returns.
Which unrealistic hot piece of ass will Adam Sandler inevitably bag by the end of film?
Did anyone notice that Korean actor was in something called SCANDAL MAKERS? (perhaps an attic shall i seek)
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Ooooh, a new Adam Sandler movie?! I would have been excited – had I been twelve years old.
It’s very rare to see Hollywood remaking a Korean remake of a Hollywood movie.
The Korean version is actually quite annoying. The suicidal protagonist reminds me of the Tanaka alien that the Gantz team had to take out, as seen here– [img19.imageshack.us]
In the Korean film though, there seems to be less acting.
As for the robot anime featured in the Korean remake, there are shitload of writing about it. Some people think it’s not plagiarism, to me it’s just denial. See for yourself.
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I totally forgot about the original movie that came out in 1993. So I guess I owe it to all you K-movie and Adam Sandler fans to remind me, that I’d go and unearth the old Robert Downey Jr. classic.