The Ridiculous 6 casts Sandler, who also co-wrote the script with frequent collaborator Tim Herlihy, as Tommy Stockburn, a white man raised as a Native American and given the name “White Knife” by his tribe.
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As Punch Drunk Loveand Funny People also illustrated, Sandler can be a compelling, mercurial, and magnetic dramatic actor, if only he didn’t waste his time with projects like 2015’s The Ridiculous 6, the very first movie in his much-hyped Netflix deal and the unhappy recipient of a zero percent score here at Rotten Tomatoes. What’s frustrating about Sandler is that he remains a profoundly talented and likable performer, as evidenced by his well-received recent dramatic turn in Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories. So when it was announced that a man whose name once all but guaranteed huge ticket sales, particularly among teenage boys, had signed a deal to have four movies skip the multiplex altogether and debut on streaming giant Netflix, it was seen, rightfully, as a dispiriting illustration of the actor’s fading popularity. If anything, Sandler’s turn as a morose suburban dad in Jason Reitman’s ridiculous, hysterical melodrama Men, Women and Children and a tailor whose life becomes infused with clunky magic in Tom McCarthy’s muddled, surreal fantasy comedy The Cobblerwere even worse received - commercially if not critically - than late-period Sandler flops like That’s My Boy, Blended, and Pixels. His intermittent attempts to do something different and arty and more highbrow bombed big-time too. It wasn’t just Sandler’s lowbrow junk that was getting shut out by audiences that had finally had enough. That’s a whole lot of moolah, but over time, something strange, unexpected, and refreshing started to happen: an audience overwhelmed with lazy, shambling Sandler vehicles from his Happy Madison schlock factory began rejecting his movies. Imagine how much more they would have made had anyone involved exerted any effort whatsoever! The Grown Ups movies might have been glorified, sub-par home movies of Sandler and his buddies goofing around on holiday, but they nevertheless grossed over a half billion collectively.
Sandler vehicles like Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, Jack & Jill, and Just Go with Itwere barely movies, but that did not keep them from becoming huge blockbusters all the same. It didn’t seem to matter how terrible and widely maligned his movies were, or how much contempt he seemingly had for his audience. It starts shooting next month.For a disconcertingly long time, Adam Sandler reigned as one of our biggest and most dependable box office attractions. The movie was written by Sandler and frequent collaborator Tim Herlihy, with a director announcement coming soon. It's a Western and the cast includes names not old and new to Happy Madison with Taylor Lautner, Nick Nolte, Blake Shelton, Whitney Cummings, Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, Dan Aykroyd, Will Forte, Nick Swardson, Terry Crews, Jon Lovitz, Vanilla Ice, Luke Wilson, Steve Zahn, Danny Trejo, Chris Parnell and Lavell Crawford set to appear. Per The Wrap, it was previously set up at Sony and Paramount. With that out of the way, the first movie out of the gate looks to be called Ridiculous 6. Netflix is a very smart company and it's not like Sandler and his posse work for scale so the likelihood is that whatever metrics Netflix is looking at (info we don't have a prayer of obtaining) indicate that the money they stand to gain from this outweighs the rather large above-the-line costs for these comedies. On the face of it, a lot of people were happily interpreting this whole thing as a career blow for Sandler when it's likely anything but.
Back when it was announced that Adam Sandler had signed a four picture deal with Netflix, there was a lot of misplaced schadenfreude.
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