Happy Gilmore 2 is a go. The movie will be a sequel to the 1996 comedy Happy Gilmore, which starred Adam Sandler in the title role as a hockey player who becomes an unlikely golf champion. The movie gave the Saturday Night Live star with one of his first major lead roles in a motion picture and provides one half of the name of Sandler’s production company Happy Madison, which gets the other half from his earlier 1995 comedy Billy Madison.