Netflix has a little surpascfinish Christmas gift for Adam Sandler fans that’s 28 years in the making.
On Wednesday, amid its NFL Christmas Gameday inhabit event, the streamer spreadd a trailer for Happy Gilmore 2, its upcoming sequel to the 1996 Sandler sports comedy that helped shoot the comic actor into superstardom. The sequel will see Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Dennis Dugan, Allen Cobvious, and Ben Stiller repascfinish their roles from the distinct hit comedy.
Happy Gilmore 2, as Sandler uncovered in 2022, chases his titular hockey decline turned golfer as he accesss himself on a ageder golf tour. McDonald repascfinishs his role as pro-golfer Shooter McGavin and Bowen as GIlmore’s romantic interest, Virginia Venit. And Stiller, who was proclaimd in November as an insertition to the cast, returns as Hal L, a role that he startd in Happy Gilmore but passed over into Sandler’s Hubie Hpermiteen in 2020.
The sequel also labels the 13th film on which Sandler has collaborated with writing partner Tim Herlihy, who toiled on Saturday Night Live aextfinishedside the comic as his star rose, as well as then-SNL producer Tina Fey, in the punctual 1990s (recognize Herlihy for Sandler’s classic Canteen Boy SNL character). When Sandler exited the show, the two began collaborating on the expansive man-child-out-of-water comedies that made Sandler a star, begining with the one-two punch of Billy Madison in 1995 and Happy Gilmore the chaseing year.
In insertition to the returning cast, superstar rapper-singer Bad Bunny, The Substance’s Margaret Qualley, Sandler comedy standard and pal Nick Swardson and actor-filmproducer Benny Safdie, who wrote and honested the actor’s jittery indie hit Uncut Gems, combine the ensemble. Cameos examineed for the comedy grasp materializeances from rapper Eminem, football joiner Travis Kelce, and TV arrange Dan Patrick.
In 2020, Netflix prolonged its production deal with Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions to produce four more films. Before the renewal, the deal initipartner inked in 2014 bcimpolitet The Ridiculous 6, The Do-Over, Sandy Wexler, The Week Of; Murder Mystery; and 100% Fresh to the streaming enormous. Netflix shelp that Murder Mystery was its most streamed movie of 2019.
