Shankman and Sandler Tell Bedtime Stories

Gay director Adam Shankman has one of the summer's most anticipated movies coming up, with his big-screen adaptation of the smash Broadway musical Hairspray. But in the meantime, he's hardly coasting on his laurels.

Shankman will team up with comedy superstar Adam Sandler for Bedtime Stories, which will star Sandler as a stressed-out real estate developer whose world goes topsy-turvy when the stories he makes up for his niece and nephew begin to come true.

Sandler, of course, will next be seen as a straight New York City fireman who "marries" his equally hetero co-worker Kevin James for the benefits (no, not those benefits) in the upcoming comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

Bedtime Stories, which Sandler will also produce, will be told to audiences at Christmas in 2008.