Here’s a project I don’t think anyone could’ve seen coming. George Clooney and Adam Sandler are set to star together, for the first time I think, in a new Netflix comedy from Noah Baumbach. Deadline has news on the untitled film, which is part of Baumbach’s exclusive deal with Netflix.
Baumbach is, of course, coming off his co-writing gig with Greta Gerwig on Barbie, which made a few dollars this year. As for this new film, it’s being described as a “funny and emotional coming-of-age film about adults”, directed by Baumbach from a script he co-wrote with actress Emily Mortimer. That descriptor could cover just about all of Baumbach’s previous work, which includes The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, and While We’re Young. He last directed an adaptation of White Noise for Netflix. His other films for the streamer include Marriage Story and The Meyerowitz Stories.
Sandler is also under an exclusive Netflix deal. He most recently voiced the title lizard in Leo, and starred in Murder Mystery 2 and You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah for them this year.
Coming up for Clooney is his rowing biopic The Boys in the Boat, which arrives this Christmas.