Netflix has prepared a little surprise Christmas gift for Adam Sandler fans that has taken 28 years to make.
The streamer shared the trailer during the NFL’s Christmas Game Day live event on Wednesday Happy Gilmore 2is the sequel to the 1996 Sandler sports comedy that helped propel the comedian to superstardom. In the sequel, Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Dennis Dugan, Aaron Covert and Ben Stiller will reprise their roles from the original hit comedy.
Happy Gilmore 2As Sandler revealed in 2022, telling the story of his transformation from titular hockey reject to golfer starting out on the senior golf tour. Macdonald reprises his role as professional golfer shooter McGavin, and Bowen plays Gilmore’s love interest Virginia Venet. Stiller, who was announced in November as joining the cast, will return to play Hal L., a character he originally played. Happy Gilmore But entering Sandler’s Hubie Halloween 2020.
The sequel is also Sandler’s 13th film with writing partner Tim Herlihy. saturday night live As comics’ stars rose, and then—saturday night live Writer Tina Fey, early 1990s (Sandler played Herlihy in his classic cafeteria boy role on Saturday Night Live). When Sandler exited the show, the two began collaborating on the broad boy-in-water comedies that made Sandler a star, starting with a one-two punch billy madison 1995 and Happy Gilmore The following year.
Joining the returning cast is superstar rapper Bad Bunny, substance’s Margaret Qualley, Sandler’s comedy regular and friend Nick Swanson, and actor and filmmaker Benny Safdie (who wrote and directed Sandler’s a tense indie hit) uncut gemsjoin the band. Confirmed guest stars for the comedy include rapper Eminem, football player Travis Kelce and TV host Dan Patrick.
In 2020, Netflix extended its production deal with Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions to produce four more films. Prior to the renewal, the deal originally signed in 2014 brought this The Ridiculous Six, Do It Again, Sandy Wexler, The Week; Murder Mysteries; and 100% Fresh Streaming giant. Netflix says murder mystery It was the most streamed movie of 2019.
