Overview

• The Pickup, costarring Davidson, Murphy and Keke Palmer, became available on Prime Video on August 6 following its July 27 Los Angeles premiere
• Davidson says Murphy inspired him to cut his social circle from hundreds to just three trusted friends for greater efficiency and trust
• He describes both Murphy and Sandler as fatherly figures who urged him to stay clean and balance work with family as he prepares for his first child
• Davidson has pitched remaking Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy with Murphy as the Jerry Lewis character and himself as Robert De Niro’s prey-obsessed comedian
• He also aims to develop a serious father-son film project with Adam Sandler once they identify the right story