Website About.com sprak met regisseur Peter Segal (Anger Management, Nutty Professor II) over zijn huidge project: de remake van The Longest Yard. De regisseur meldde onder andere dat Adam Sandler hard werkt om zijn lichaam op maat te krijgen voor de komedie over american football.

[eng]"He's currently working out with Sean Salsbury, a 14-year NFL veteran quarterback. He's training with him. We actually have a pretty intense basketball sequence in the movie. He's working on that. And we're writing into the story that he's six years out of the pros, so a little rustiness is actually good for the character, but he is working on his skills right now very seriously."[/eng]