Money Business

I’m pretty sure there’s over 160 drafts of the script,” Josh Safdie winces. Teasers gets the impression he’s not exaggerating. The Safdies, Josh and his brother Benny, have spent almost a decade bringing Uncut Gems to the screen, making music videos, a documentary and two acclaimed features (Heaven Knows What, Good Time) in the intervening years. But the film’s alpha and omega is, was, and has always been, Adam Sandler.

“We went out to Sandler in 2012, and we couldn’t even get the script to him. So that was a we were finally able to get Sandler, who was meant to be from the very beginning, clearly!”