Adam Sandler’s iconic 2000s movie 50 First Dates remains a romcom classic for a reason – and so it’s not surprising that a remake is coming.
Sony Pictures has given the right to Thailand’s GDH, the studio behind Bad Genius and the Oscar-nominated How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, with two major international superstars set to appear.
I-DLE’s Minnie Nicha will leap from K-pop stages to her first film role as the female main character, originally played by Drew Barrymore.
Opposite her is Nadech Kugimiya, a Thai heartthrob known for Death-Whisperer 2, which became the highest-grossing Thai film of all time in 2024.
But in what will be a major twist, the Thai version will flip the script with Nadech’s character the one to wake up every day with no memory of what came before, and Minnie’s character will be the one to remember.
Minnie, 27, is based in South Korea and is a member of South Korean girl group I-DLE, which debuted in 2018.
One of the most successful girl groups out of South Korea, the group are known for writing and producing their own music; Minnie went solo earlier in 2025.
Since 2019 she has also been acting, starring on the Korean drama Five Actors, and Knowing International High School.
© Getty ImagesNadech, 33, is best known for his roles in My Love from the Star, The Con-Heartist and the Death Whisperer franchise, and he voiced Mufasa in the Thai version of Mufasa: The Lion King.
50 First Dates was released in 2004 and follows Adam’s Henry Roth, a womanizing marine veterinarian who falls for an art teacher named Lucy Whitmore whom he discovers has amnesia and forgets him each night when she falls asleep.
Henry then resolves to make her fall in love with him each morning.
It was a mixed success critically but a hit with viewers, and has been remade in Indian, Malayalam, Japan, Iran and Mexico.
Adam and Drew had previously starred together in The Wedding Singer, and went on to collaborate in Blended as well, and their families are super close, including their teenage daughters.
“My daughter and Adam’s daughter were watching it at my house the other night and I was like, ‘Why are you guys watching this? Don’t you get enough of me and your dad?'” Drew shared on her talk show in 2024.
“And they were just so happy and I was like, ‘Oh, but this is so sweet and wonderful.'”
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