Admirers longing for a “Happy Gilmore” reprisal can rejoice — a sequel is on the way.
Drew Barrymore disclosed on Friday’s episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show” that the movie’s co-writer and star, Adam Sandler, is doing the job on a screenplay for “Happy Gilmore 2.”
“Variety stories that Adam Sandler might have published the first draft for ‘Happy Gilmore 2,’” Barrymore mentioned.
“I want it. I need it. And I stayed up final night time with my daughter looking at ‘Billy Madison,’” Barrymore reported in a clip unveiled by the present.
“I sent sent [Adam] Sandler a video of that, and then he despatched me another video again, and I’m waiting around to see if he’s confirming about the ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ script simply because actor Christopher McDonald, who was Shooter McGavin … he was in the initial 1996 film, but he statements that Adam lately showed him a duplicate of the 1st draft of the sequel to ‘Happy Gilmore.’”
Afterwards in the exhibit, Barrymore seemed at her cell phone. “This just in, I have breaking information,” she mentioned. “I’ll just say this, from my source, that [the movie script] is in procedure.
“There is a system, and that system is in method.”
Barrymore and Sandler are superior good friends and have starred in three motion pictures alongside one another: “The Marriage Singer” (1998), “50 Initial Dates” (2004) and “Blended” (2014).
In regards to McDonald, Barrymore was referencing a radio interview that McDonald did with “The Ken Carman Show” in Cleveland when he 1st broke the news about the “Happy Gilmore 2” script.
“I observed Adam about two weeks back, and he claims to me, ‘McDonald, you are gonna enjoy this,’” he told Carman. “I said, ‘What?’ He suggests, ‘How about that?’ and he exhibits me the 1st draft of ‘Happy Gilmore 2.’
“Maybe you ought to slash that because I do not wanna be a liar,” McDonald explained to Carman, “but he did present me that and I assumed, ‘Well, that would be brilliant.
“So it’s in the will work. Enthusiasts demand from customers it, damn it!”
Sandler starred in the 1996 cult favored “Happy Gilmore” as an unsuccessful ice hockey participant with rage issues and a foul mouth who becomes an not likely golfing hero.
In addition to McDonald, the film highlighted Julie Bowen and Carl Weathers.
The lover-beloved flick is remembered for a scene in which Pleased Gilmore and 72-year-old match display host Bob Barker, playing himself as Happy’s golfing companion, slugged it out on the environmentally friendly.
