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Netflix has a bit of shock Christmas reward for Adam Sandler followers that is 28 years within the making.
On Wednesday, amid its NFL Christmas Gameday stay occasion, the streamer shared a trailer for Glad Gilmore 2, its upcoming sequel to the 1996 Sandler sports activities comedy that helped shoot the comedian actor into superstardom. The sequel will see Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Dennis Dugan, Allen Covert, and Ben Stiller reprising their roles from the unique hit comedy.
Glad Gilmore 2, as Sandler revealed in 2022, follows his titular hockey reject turned golfer as he enters himself on a senior golf tour. McDonald reprises his position as pro-golfer Shooter McGavin and Bowen as Gilmore’s romantic curiosity, Virginia Venit. And Stiller, who was introduced in November as an addition to the solid, returns as Hal L, a job that he originated in Glad Gilmore however crossed over into Sandler’s Hubie Halloween in 2020.
The sequel additionally marks the thirteenth movie on which Sandler has collaborated with writing associate Tim Herlihy, who labored on Saturday Night time Dwell alongside the comedian as his star rose, in addition to then-SNL author Tina Fey, within the early Nineties (credit score Herlihy for Sandler’s basic Canteen Boy SNL character). When Sandler exited the present, the 2 started collaborating on the broad man-child-out-of-water comedies that made Sandler a star, beginning with the one-two punch of Billy Madison in 1995 and Glad Gilmore the next 12 months.
Along with the returning solid, famous person rapper-singer Dangerous Bunny, The Substance’s Margaret Qualley, Sandler comedy common and pal Nick Swardson and actor-filmmaker Benny Safdie, who wrote and directed the actor’s jittery indie hit Uncut Gems, be part of the ensemble. Cameos confirmed for the comedy embody appearances from rapper Eminem, soccer participant Travis Kelce, and TV host Dan Patrick.
In 2020, Netflix prolonged its manufacturing take care of Sandler’s Glad Madison Productions to make 4 extra movies. Earlier than the renewal, the deal initially inked in 2014 introduced The Ridiculous 6, The Do-Over, Sandy Wexler, The Week Of; Homicide Thriller; and 100% Recent to the streaming big. Netflix mentioned that Homicide Thriller was its most streamed film of 2019.
Netflix has not introduced a launch date for Glad Gilmore 2 however the trailer signifies a launch someday in 2025.
