Via Ed Champion, I learn that
Bestselling author Mitch Albom has sold his very first script to Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions. According to Variety, the untitled film is being set up as a starring project for Adam Sandler. [link]
Which, quite honestly, I couldn’t care less about, having never read a word Albom’s ever written and, amazingly, have only ever seen two of Sandler’s movies in their entirety (Happy Gilmore and Punch-Drunk Love, both of which I actually liked). But I did find this bit amusing:
While it is said to have some “emotional elements”…
Should just about every film have some emotional elements?