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Adam Sandler, Jackie Sandler and their daughters are set to star in a bat mitzvah-themed movie at Netflix.
The streaming service and production company is adapting author Fiona Rosenbloom’s 2005 novelYou Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah!into a feature film,Varietyreported Wednesday. Sandler, 55, will both star in the film alongside Jackie, 47, and his daughters Sunny, 13, and Sadie, 16, and produce the movie through his company Happy Madison.
Idina Menzel, who co-starred with Sandler in 2019’sUncut Gems, will also appear in the movie, as well as incoming second-yearSaturday Night Livecast member Sarah Sherman and Luis Guzmán, who worked with Sandler on 2002’sPunch-Drunk Love, according toVariety.
“A girl’s bat mitzvah plans comedically unravel and threaten to ruin one of the most important events of her young life,” reads Netflix’s official logline for the film, according toVariety.
The upcoming movie will take place in the present-day, although the novel is set in the early 200s,Varietyreported.You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah!has already entered production, according toVariety. Sammi Cohen, who directed Hulu’sCrushearlier in 2022, will serve as director, with screenwriter Alison Peck adapting Rosenbloom’s novel.
The film is the latest in Netflix’s ongoing partnership with Sandler and Happy Madison; in 2020, the two companies extended an original 2014 deal to make four more movies. Happy Madison’s Netflix movies that stemmed from the deal have includedHustle,The Ridiculous Six,Hubie Halloweenand Sandler’s 2018 comedy special100% Fresh, according toDeadline.
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The cast forYou Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah!also includes Ido Mosseri, Samantha Lorraine, Dylan Hoffman, Dean Scott Vazquez, Miya Cech, Dylan Dash, Millie Thorpe, Zaara Kuttemperoor and Ivory Baker, according toVariety, which noted that Netflix has not announced who will play what characters from the original novel.
In June, 27-year-old Halseysaid onThe Tonight Showthat the party was “the craziest bat mitzvah I’ve ever seen in my life.”
“As you would expect from Adam Sandler,” they toldJimmy Fallon. “It was like… I mean, it was like Coachella. I couldn’t believe it. I was like, ‘Wow, you guys booked me?’ I was really honored.”
source: people.com
