{"id":9952,"date":"2017-01-13T09:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/seward-crews-work-on-new-netflix-film-starring-adam-sandler\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T09:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T17:02:27","slug":"seward-crews-work-on-new-netflix-film-starring-adam-sandler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/seward-crews-work-on-new-netflix-film-starring-adam-sandler\/","title":{"rendered":"Seward crews work on new Netflix film starring Adam Sandler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> An Alaska-based production company has been filming in the city of Seward for an upcoming Netflix project starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>SprocketHeads was working in the city for about a week and wrapped up the photography work for \u201cSandy Wexler\u201d this month, KTUU-TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Robinson, the company\u2019s owner, said casting directors found people in Alaska to be the body doubles for Sandler and Hudson during the filmed segments in Seward. She said the group\u2019s work will have a small role in the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a small amount. The exact amount I don\u2019t know, because as you well know, everything changes in the edit room,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Rychetnik, cinematographer for SprocketHeads, was in Seward shooting on-location. He has also worked on other films partially based in Alaska such as \u201cThe Frozen Ground,\u201d \u201cBig Miracle\u201d and \u201cBeyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Internet Movie Database, \u201cSandy Wexler\u201d will also feature frequent Sandler collaborators Kevin James of \u201cPaul Blart: Mall Cop,\u201d and Rob Schneider, known for his role in \u201cDeuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SprocketHeads, which has operated since 1995, said they are unable to release more details about the film, as Netflix is overseeing its promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 An Alaska-based production company has been filming in the city of Seward for an upcoming Netflix project starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Hudson. SprocketHeads was working in the city for about a week and wrapped up the photography work for \u201cSandy Wexler\u201d this month, KTUU-TV reported. Carolyn Robinson, the company\u2019s owner, said casting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}