The Longest Yard (2005)

MacGuffin · December 23, 2004, 12:17:45 AM

Trailer here.

Release Date: May 27, 2005 (nationwide)

Cast: Adam Sandler (Paul Crewe), Chris Rock (Caretaker), Burt Reynolds (Nate Scarboro), William Fichtner, James Cromwell , Cloris Leachman, Brian Bosworth, Michael Irvin, Bill Romanowski, Nelly, Terry Crews, Tracy Morgan, Joey 'Coco' Diaz, David Patrick Kelly, Kevin Nash, Steve Austin, Bill Goldberg, Robert Sapp, Nick Turturro

Director: Peter Segal (50 First Dates, Anger Management)

Screenwriter: Sheldon Turner, Tim Herlihy

Based Upon: The 1974 film The Longest Yard starring Burt Reynolds, directed by Robert Aldrich.

Premise: The story of pro quarterback Paul Crewe (Sandler) and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro (Reynolds), who are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game "fixed" to turn out quite another way.

matt35mm · December 23, 2004, 12:26:51 AM

Despite the director, the combo of Adam Sandler and Chris Rock might make for a possible--who'da thunk it--hilarity.

soixante · December 23, 2004, 02:13:06 AM

While you can't improve upon perfection, you can improve upon the merely above-average.

In the original Longest Yard, Burt Reynolds plays Paul Crew, who ends up getting 30 or so years tacked on for his original sentence for pissing off the warden. So the 2005 version could have have been a sequel rather than a remake, with Reynolds continuing his portrayal of Crew 3 decades later, and Sandler portraying a pro quarterback who repeats Crew's mistakes.

pete · December 23, 2004, 02:31:46 AM

yeah, way to put SPOILER before you spoiled the original for me. thanks a lot. DARTH VADER WAS LUKE'S DAD.
take that.

bonanzataz · December 23, 2004, 04:06:46 PM

pete... you are

Gold Trumpet · December 23, 2004, 04:54:23 PM

Its sad when non-Adam Sandler fans are hoping he returns to the spirit of Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. It just speaks for how awful his films are these days.

ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ · December 23, 2004, 04:59:29 PM

Quote from: The Gold TrumpetIts sad when non-Adam Sandler fans are hoping he returns to the spirit of Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. It just speaks for how awful his films are these days.

Seriously! Did you ever see Punch Drunk Love? God, it was horrible!

Gold Trumpet · December 23, 2004, 05:06:47 PM

Quote from: Walrus, Kookookajoob
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetIts sad when non-Adam Sandler fans are hoping he returns to the spirit of Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. It just speaks for how awful his films are these days.

Seriously! Did you ever see Punch Drunk Love? God, it was horrible!

That's the one non fans can claim as their own.

soixante · December 23, 2004, 05:07:23 PM

I'm sure the 2005 version will cop out and have an upbeat ending, unlike the grittier 1974 original. This is, after all, a summer comedy from the folks who brought you Anger Management.

pete · December 23, 2004, 05:20:47 PM

what, ruining one ending wasn't enough for you? jeez, how much bigger an asshole can you be?

Pozer · December 31, 2004, 12:51:14 PM

Quote from: soixanteI'm sure the 2005 version will cop out and have an upbeat ending, unlike the grittier 1974 original. This is, after all, a summer comedy from the folks who brought you Anger Management.

Oh it will get the typical Sandler treatment for sure.
It ends on the field after a brutal fight with the players and the guards. Rock has snuck his way into the guard tower where he sounds the alarm to stop the brawl and shouts over the loud speaker "Listen up motherfuckers, my man has somethin' to say!" A banged up Sandler makes his way to where his longtime hero and coach, Reynolds lays beaten to a pulp. He stares long and hard at his mentor where they exchange cheesy, unfunny dialogue, something along the lines of: REYNOLDS: What happened? SANDLER: I don't know, I saved the day I guess. Then a Vietnamese prison bitch cameo'd by Rob S. shouts out "You Can Do EET!" Sandler confesses his love to Reynolds, they embrace, Rock says "my nigga" everyone is in tears including the guards (probably a close up on one of the guards over doing the crying comeo'd by Kevin Nealand no doubt) and the rest writes itself.

NEON MERCURY · January 02, 2005, 08:24:04 PM

hahaha!

Slimepuppy · January 03, 2005, 03:52:55 PM

Thanks POZER, now I don't actually have to see the film.

So the inmates are the good guys, right?
And the prison wardens are the bad guys, right?

Somehow I doubt they're going to make humorous subplots out of the convicts' pasts as murderers and rapists. They'll probably all be innocent or just convicted for a smaller, less offensive crimes.

Eh, it's an Adam Sandler movie, so maybe I'm being a bit too sensitive. It's just escapist fantasy (if you'll pardon the pun)...

Myxo · January 03, 2005, 07:51:54 PM

Director of 50 First Dates and Anger Management. How's that?

SiliasRuby · January 03, 2005, 09:26:41 PM

Despite the spoilers, I think this remake is going to be bad ass. I mean come onnn....look what it says at the top

Quote from: MacGuffinDirector: Peter Segal (50 First Dates, Anger Management)

and Sheldon Turner as well as Tim Herlihy as the screenwriters on this.
Sheldon has written the new Amityville Horror film coming out and Tim Herlihy has worked on such sandler classics as Mr. Deeds, Little Nicky, Big daddy, the waterboy, the wedding singer, as well as Happy Gilmore and Billy madison.
Let me Just say again, Bad Assssss.........