The first film in Adam Sandler’s four-movie deal with Netflix has been revealed. The Wrap reports that Sandler’s first Netflix film, called Ridiculous 6, begins production next month and includes a huge cast: Taylor Lautner, Nick Nolte, Blake Shelton, Whitney Cummings, Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider (He’s back!), Chris Parnell, Dan Aykroyd, Will Forte, Jon Lovitz, Nick Swardson, Terry Crews, Vanilla Ice, Luke Wilson, Steve Zahn, Danny Trejo, and Lavell Crawford, with more to be announced. No plot details have been announced on the Magnificent Seven-style parody, but The Wrap revealed some casting details: Sandler will star as a “man who grew up as an orphan among an Indian tribe†while Lautner, Schneider, Wilson, and Crews will play his half-brothers. Nolte will play Sandler’s “long-lost father,†Parnell will play a bank manager, Lovitz and Cummings will play a wealthy industrialist couple, Forte and Trejo will play rival gang leaders, Buscemi will play “a local jack-of-all-trades,†Shelton will play Wyatt Earp, and Vanilla Ice will play Mark Twain.
In addition to shooting Ridiculous 6, Happy Madison Productions has three other projects set to premiere this year including animated film Pixels and the completely necessary sequels to Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Joe Dirt.