Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Adapting 'Bad Toys II' (Exclusive)

12:56 PM PDT 7/25/2012 by Borys Kit

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Columbia and Sandler's production shingle develop big-screen adaptation of the hybrid animated-live-action short.

"Bad Toys II"

Columbia and Happy Madison, the production shingle run by Adam Sandler and Jack Giarraputo, are developing a big-screen adaptation of Bad Toys II, a hybrid animated-live-action short.

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Daniel Brunet and Nicolas Douste, the French animators behind the short, will co-exec produce.

Using a combo of live-action, comic book panels and CG, the short is one destructive car chase that starts off with toys on a living room floor. Using Michael Bay-style editing and camera moves, the play is elevated to metal-crunching, tire-screeching, car-crashing levels seen in Bay’s own Bad Boys movies with two wise-cracking cops trying to catch a van of bad guys.

The movie hit the Net earlier this year.

Columbia's big-screen version will center on a grown man reconnecting with his youthful imagination through his son's toys, and his play turns into an homage to big-budget action films.

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This isn’t the first time Sandler's company and Columbia tried to develop an Internet short. Happy Madisonis also working with the studio on Pixels, based on a short by Patrick Jean it picked up in 2010 and is being rewritten by Tim Dowling.