Netflix's Leo Trailer Introduces Adam Sandler and Bill Burr as Elderly Reptiles

Netflix drops the first trailer for the animated feature Leo, starring Adam Sandler and Bill Burr as class pets who go on a musical adventure.

Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for the animated musical Leo, starring Adam Sandler and Bill Burr.

The teaser introduces viewers to Sandler as Leo the lizard, a 74-year-old class pet who has lived in a terrarium at a Florida grade school as far back as he can remember. When he learns he has only a year left to live, Leo sets out to escape his home and experience life on the outside, only to get "caught up in the problems of his anxious students — and an impossibly mean substitute teacher." Burr co-stars as Squirtle, an elderly turtle and Leo's terrarium-mate who goes along in the adventure. The star-studded voice cast includes Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, Stephanie Hsu, Jo Koy, Heidi Gardner, Nick Swardson, and Nicholas Turturro, as well as Sandler's wife Jackie and daughters Sunny and Sadie.

Leo is directed by Robert Marianetti, David Wachtenheim and Robert Smigel, who also voices a character in the film. Smigel also co-wrote the screenplay with Sandler and Paul Sado. Leo's grand journey begins November 21 on Netflix.

Adam Sandler's Netflix Collaborations Continue

Leo marks the fifteenth project from Sandler's Happy Madison Productions to be distributed by Netflix. Their most recent collaboration is You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, also starring the Sandler family and based on the young adult novel of the same name by Fiona Rosenbloom. The film has debuted to an impressive 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics praising the film's comedy, emotional earnestness and breakthrough performance of Sunny Sandler in the lead role. The coming-of-age comedy will release on August 25.

Like many of his projects, Leo features a reference to Sandler's comedic back catalog, with the teaser closing on Leo singing the "Back to School" song from Billy Madison. Sandler has stated that he'd be willing to return to his older characters in sequels, such as follow-ups to the sports comedies The Waterboy or Happy Gilmore. "Wouldn't that be fun to do the senior tour of Happy Gilmore, and hang out with all those guys and try to write a great script about Happy as an older guy, and having to calm down his temper and all that stuff? But, I never know," he said. Either way, Sandler seems content to produce his own work and admits he "probably won't" ever be cast in a major franchise blockbuster.