Article content After serving as the backdrop for the classic sports comedy Happy Gilmore, Metro Vancouver will sit out the next round when a sequel starts shooting next month. A casting call has gone out for extras to appear in the upcoming Netflix movie Happy Gilmore 2, and they’re being sought not in B.C.
but in New Jersey for a shoot from September to November. In the 1996 original, scenes were shot at local golf courses including Peace Portal (now The Hills at Portal) in South Surrey, Riverway in Burnaby, Swaneset in Pitt Meadows and Furry Creek near Britannia Beach. Other locations that stood in as golf clubs were the Stanley Park Pavilion and VanDusen Botanical Garden.
Joel Hurley, who scouted locations around the Lower Mainland for the 1995 shoot, said filming was also done at the Vancouver heritage building Hycroft Manor; Happy’s apartment exterior is actually Quebec Manor at East 8th Avenue in Mount Pleasant; and Happy’s beloved grandmother’s house is on West 19th Avenue. Hurley recalls shooting was done during a Vancouver Voodoo inline hockey game at Pacific Coliseum, while a skating scene was shot at the nearby PNE Agrodome. And when grandma ends up in a retirement home under the thumb of a deranged orderly played by Ben Stiller, it’s actually a much-used Metro movie location, Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam.
Some of the spots are no longer there. When Happy tries out for a hockey team in the film, those scenes were shot at the defunct Capilano Tennis Cl.