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It’s all in the hips.
On Dec. 25, Netflix and Adam Sandler released the first trailer for the hotly anticipated sequel to “Happy Gilmore.”
Superstar football player and Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, also appeared in it.
The NFL player, 35, has some of the short trailer’s only dialogue, as he looks like an exec or hotel employee and says to Happy, “It’s great to see you back, Mr. Gilmore.”
This is a continuance of Kelce’s budding Hollywood career, as he was also in the Ryan Murphy show “Grotesquerie” and hosted the Prime Video game show, “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?”
The first “Happy Gilmore” premiered in 1996, and the sequel is coming 29 years later.
The movie followed a failed hockey player with anger management problems, Happy Gilmore (Sandler) who needed money to save his grandmother’s house.
He discovered a talent for golf and soon began competing in tournaments, ruffling feathers in the golf community with his boorish and non-conformist behavior.
“Modern Family” star Julie Bowen will return in the sequel as his love interest, and Christopher McDonald will return as his rival golfer, Shooter McGavin.
A slew of new stars will also appear in the sequel, like Kelce, Margaret Qualley, comedian Nick Swardson, Scott Mescudi (aka rapper Kid Cudi) and Benny Safdie, who directed Sandler in “Uncut Gems.”
The trailer also has a scene of Gilmore facing off with McGavin in a graveyard – possibly over the grave of Happy’s mentor, Derek “Chubbs” Peterson (played by Carl Weathers, who also died in real life in February, at age 76.)
During an August visit to “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Sandler said about the movie, “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 also co-wrote several other Sandler movies, including ”Billy Madison,” “The Waterboy” and “The Wedding Singer.”
Regarding Kelce’s appearance in the movie, Sandler said, “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.
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