It’s all within the hips.
On Dec. 25, Netflix and Adam Sandler launched the primary trailer for the hotly anticipated sequel to “Happy Gilmore.”
Famous person soccer participant and Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, additionally appeared in it.
The NFL participant, 35, has a few of the brief trailer’s solely dialogue, as he seems like an exec or resort worker and says to Pleased, “It’s great to see you back, Mr. Gilmore.”
This can be a continuance of Kelce’s budding Hollywood profession, as he was additionally within the Ryan Murphy present “Grotesquerie” and hosted the Prime Online game present, “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?”
The primary “Happy Gilmore” premiered in 1996, and the sequel is coming 29 years later.
The film adopted a failed hockey participant with anger administration issues, Pleased Gilmore (Sandler) who wanted cash to save lots of his grandmother’s home.
He found a expertise for golf and shortly started competing in tournaments, ruffling feathers within the golf neighborhood along with his boorish and non-conformist conduct.
“Modern Family” star Julie Bowen will return within the sequel as his love curiosity, and Christopher McDonald will return as his rival golfer, Shooter McGavin.
A slew of recent stars will even seem within the sequel, like Kelce, Margaret Qualley, comic Nick Swardson, Scott Mescudi (aka rapper Child Cudi) and Benny Safdie, who directed Sandler in “Uncut Gems.”
The trailer additionally has a scene of Gilmore dealing with off with McGavin in a graveyard – presumably over the grave of Pleased’s mentor, Derek “Chubbs” Peterson (performed by Carl Weathers, who additionally died in actual life in February, at age 76.)
Throughout an August go to to “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Sandler mentioned in regards to the film, “It’s good. We worked hard on the script, man! We didn’t want to let anybody down.”
He added, “People have been asking me for a long time, ‘Do Happy Gilmore 2,’ and I was always like, ‘Nah, I’ll only let you down.’ But then me and my buddy, Tim Herlihy, we came up with this idea. We’re really excited about it. We wrote our a – – es off. We’re continuing to try to make it a movie that you guys will like.”
Herlihy additionally co-wrote a number of different Sandler motion pictures, together with ”Billy Madison,” “The Waterboy” and “The Wedding Singer.”
Relating to Kelce’s look within the film, Sandler mentioned, “We have a nice something for Travis. He’s going to come by. He’s a very nice guy…What a big, handsome guy. Funny and cool as hell. He’s a stud, and he’s so funny.”
“Happy Gilmore 2” premieres at an unspecified date in 2025 on Netflix.
