After a clinically depressing last few years in the movie business, Adam Sandler may actually be joining a project that could see the actor stretch himself — or at the very least, be watchable on screen. Jason Reitman, whose drama Labor Day will hit Toronto soon ahead of a Christmas opening, is already preparing his next feature and he’s looking to the Punch Drunk Love star to lead the film.
According to Deadline, the Juno director has lined up Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Rosemarie DeWitt, and possibly Cameron Diaz to lead an adaptation of Chad Kultgen‘s novel Men, Women and Children, from a script he’s already adapted. They’ll figure in the story of a family with middle schoolers as they deal with their coming of age in a social networking world where pornography is rampant. Eying a November start, check out the synopsis below and pick up the book on Amazon. One can also see a new still from his upcoming film featuring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin.
The author of The Average American Male and The Lie returns with a shocking, salacious, and surprisingly subtle new novel of the average American family. Like Neil Strauss and Nick Hornby, Chad Kultgenhas the capacity to enthrall and astonish even the most ardent readers of contemporary literary fiction. In Men, Women, and Children, his incisive vision, unerring prose, and red-light-district imagination are at their most ambitious and surprising, as he explores the sexual pressures of junior highschool students and their parents navigating the internet’s shared landscape of pornography, blogs, social networking, and its promise of opportunities,escapes, reinvented identities, and unexpected conflicts.
Have you read the book? What do you make the cast?