Kevin James to play New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton on Netflix home team

Image Credit: Left (Sean Payton) – Sean Gardner / Getty Images. Right (Kevin James) – Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images.

In order to “re-evaluate his life and put it in perspective,” Payton becomes the offensive coach of the Liberty Christian Warriors, his son’s sixth-grade football located in Dallas, Texas.

King mentions that Payton has already read the script and made some corrections, and filming is expected to begin later this year.

Payton spoke to ESPN, and believes this film will have a “humorous Adam Sandler” take on the real story and be more of an “inspired” tale than an exact narrative. He also said the idea came after his daughter Meghan reported the true story of her time with the Warriors for NFL Network.

Meghan’s boyfriend Christoper Titone is Sandler’s brother-in-law and an actor who works with Happy Madison. After discussing the idea with Sandler, he gave the go-ahead and entrusted Titone to help produce the screenplay.

Asked if Kevin James is playing him, Payton responded by saying, “Look, I’m at that age that I don’t care.” However, he enjoyed talking to James about the role and knows that James and Happy Madison are doing a “great job.”

For those unfamiliar with it, the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, unofficially known as the Bountygate, was an incident in which members of the Saints were accused of paying bonuses / bounties to their players to injure them. opposing team players.

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