Adam Sandler’s big hit movie ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ was released on Netflix on Friday
Over 10,500 days since the original, “Happy Gilmore 2” was released on Netflix on Friday, full of star cameos and all the feels of the first film.
This time, Bad Bunny joins the cast as Happy’s new caddie, while Gilmore tees off alongside golf stars such as two-time Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and two-time PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas.
Putts are made. Caddies are strangled. Happy places are once again tapped into.
“It’s brought a lot of laughs and joy to people over the years. That’s the blessing of a film like this. And I don’t think, like I say, any of us expected it. It just happened that way,” McDonald said.
“And over the moon to be happy making a sequel when people love the movie so much. And I think we stayed true to the first one.”
Director Kyle Newacheck was 12 years old when the original film was released and was “very, very nervous” about revisiting the movie.
“I really don’t think there’s any telling how many times I watched it,” Newacheck told ESPN.
He put in extra work to make the golf scenes feel authentic. He said he knew golf “from an arm’s length” and leaned on his first assistant director, David Bernstein, who played frequently. Dan Baker, a nearly 17-year member with PGA of America, was also on set, guiding Newacheck on how golf looks on screen.
“I watched a lot of footage and kind of broke it down in terms of how they shot it, and thankfully, a lot of ours had to look like it’s on television,” Newacheck told ESPN.
“So, I could almost just emulate the way that they shot it on television with the cinema cameras.”
He focused on how TV broadcasts used zoom and framed shots, replicating those techniques to help Sandler perform as if he were playing in a televised PGA event. PGA cameraman Will Baker helped by operating the thousand-millimeter zooms used during tournaments to follow the ball.
“We would have thousands of people there cheering and yelling for Happy Gilmore. The golfer and the cameras are set up just like they would set it up at a PGA event …” Newacheck said. “It really felt like we were a part of sports broadcasting for a while there.”
Baker tragically died in December in a car accident.
