RIDICULOUS 6 Will Be Adam Sandler's First Netflix Movie

It's going to be tough for me to avoid turning this piece into a scathing takedown of Adam Sandler, but I'll give it a shot in order to bring you some news. According to The Wrap, Sandler's first movie in the four-film deal he signed with Netflix will be Ridiculous 6, the western "comedy" he was originally going to make with Paramount Pictures.

Get a load of this cast: Sandler, Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider, Luke Wilson, Terry Crews, Blake Shelton, Whitney Cummings, Steve Buscemi, Dan Aykroyd, Will Forte, Nick Swardson, Luke Wilson, Steve Zahn, Chris Parnell, Danny Trejo, Jon Lovitz, Vanilla Ice, and Breaking Bad alum Lavell Crawford. Here's the breakdown of who they're all playing:

Sandler will play man who grew up as an orphan among an Indian tribe. Lautner, Schneider, Wilson and Crews are poised to play his half-brothers, while the final half-brother has yet to be cast.

Nolte will play Sandler’s long-lost father; Parnell a bank manager; Lovitz a wealthy industrialist and Cummings his flirtatious wife. Forte and Trejo will play the leaders of rival gangs, while Buscemi will play a local jack-of-all-trades.

Blake Shelton will play Wyatt Earp, and Vanilla Ice will take on the role of Mark Twain. Seriously. This is not a joke.

The only reason I'm giving this project any shred of a chance that it could be anything other than a steaming pile of crap? The fact that it's co-written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy. The latter wrote the screenplays for Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, and Big Daddy...so, basically all of the early-era Sandler stuff that some of his fans wish the actor would return to instead of the insipid garbage he's been pumping out over the past few years (Just Go With It, Jack and Jill, Blended).

Production starts next month, so it seems likely that the film will be available on the streaming service by the end of this year.