Adam Sandler is known for being a funny man, and while he’s dabbled of sort-of dramas, such as Punch Drunk Love, he’s mainly stuck with comedies. Now he’s in talks to make a fantasy drama for director Tom McCarthy, called The Cobbler, called THR.
Not much is known about the film, other than it’s set in the modern day and follows ‘a shoe man who has the ability to metaphysically step into the lives of the people whose shoes he repairs.’
McCarthy is best known for The Station Agent and The Visitor, and will start filming The Cobbler very soon, as Sandler wants to fit it in before moving on to Jason Reitman’s Men Women & Children (another less overtly comic venture for the actor).