Netflix will produce Noah Baumbach’s next feature, which is being described as a “funny and emotional coming-of-age story about adults”.
In December 2022, the New York Post had reported that Netflix greenlit a new film starring Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler, to be directed by Baumbach. None of the trades were able to confirm the story, but Netflix boss Scott Stuber, speaking with Collider, has given us more details about the project:
Noah Baumbach’s got an excellent kind of Jerry Maguire-esque, for lack of a better analogy, but a really great life-affirming movie with two big movie stars that’s starting to come together, so that'll be exciting
Sandler and Pitt are definitely “two big movie stars.” What a strange, but interesting duo they would be for a film. I sure hope they are the actors Stuber is referring to. Baumbach is coming off the biggest success of his career, having co-written “Barbie” with partner Greta Gerwig.
Baumbach signed an exclusive multi-year deal to make movies for Netflix in January 2021, right after his “Marriage Story” was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture. Netflix produced Baumbach’s last three films; 2017’s “The Meyerowitz Stories,” 2019’s “Marriage Story” and 2022’s absurdist $120 million trifle “White Noise”