Main Course: The Second HappyTown Movie

**Main Course: The Second HappyTown Movie** is an upcoming comedy-drama film, serving as a sequel to Getting Sketchy, Is it directed by Jacob Harvey and Mikey Lugo, and will be distributed by HorizonJac worldwide and Side Line Releasing in the US.

## Drama/Controversy

Even with the sequel going into pre-production, something started going wrong. Most prominently, Jacob's creative control being taken away.

* As soon as the movie was going to be announced, Ryan J. Austin (the voice of Chef Charley) suggested an R-rated sequel to the movie, which Jacob later rejected as it's out of character for HappyTown in general. In addition, Bloodshot was slowly taking Jacob's control away from his properties, including but not limited to: changing the Life of Hive title and its color (from orange to red) without his consent, taking over US distribution of the film sequel as well as the director role, misinformation on his stuff (including The Telly Scope), trying to forcibly control said movies, asking questions about what will come in 2022 (for example, "Will HappyTown return in 2022?"), getting himself to voice Chef Charley with forcing Jacob to send clips of the character's scenes of the first film before its release, getting him to be in a now cancelled R-rated film and making an unfunny joke that he felt would ruin his reputation, and finally; when Jacob was an extra for a newer film, he asked if it was rated R (despite the film being a British one and being incomplete). Even after the first apology, Ryan continued with the same stuff to him which also included nearly sabotaging the films Jacob tried doing, and it's already full distribution by suggesting a stranger to distribute the film in Asia (and saying Jacob would have fixed it if he had chosen). All of which on Discord and Twitter.

After all this, Jacob snapped, and fired Ryan J. Austin from the roles he were given, and his production company involvement to the movie entirely. His reason was that Ryan was poking his nose into Jacob's stuff and being a dictator to his projects, blowing both of his chances.

* Shortly afterwards, more drama came by after Bloodshot's firing, when Tanner Goethals applied to voice act in the film. Tanner would later go on to add in misinformation claiming he and Joseph are directing the movie. After Jacob found out on the original movie's page, he fired Tanner for lying about the direction. Later, some members of The Joseph Goes Community (which Jacob was still in at the time) got fed up with Jamal's immature behaviour and also got removed from the film's development. Some of his music will still be kept in the film.

* In October 2021, as the film was slowly changing, Nancer applied to also help on the movie but also proved to be very problematic to both Jacob and the movie. At first, he was originally going to be a tester, and view how the film is going but later tried writing. Instead, he nearly controlled Jacob's decisions also over the film and his company; one of these include telling Jacob to not film some scenes before a script is in progress (in other words; suggesting Jacob to not use improv; despite the island scenes being filmed before-then). In addition, he also stripped Oofdy's character arc in order for him to be a very generic villain, ruining one of the more important aspects of the film. Nancer also suggested to him that he only has one distributor, despite the fact that he doesn't own Jacob's companies at all, therefore getting Side Line closed down and changing HorizonJac without his consent.

* All of which being kept in mind at the time, Nancer did not watch the first film. Jacob fired him for attempted sabotage of the sequel's plans and Oofdy's character as well as screwing over his company, Side Line. The company would shortly be brought back as a US distributor of Jacob's properties, excluding certain films he'd make. Afterwards, Jacob was concerned on who to trust on who can help because of what happened, as well as leaving TJGC due to disinterest.

With the people who tried taking over creative control and using misinformation gone, and to never return to the film, Jacob got some others to help on the movie to shape it into what it would be in his intended vision with the help of a few others. Jamal would also return to the film.

* In December 2021, the film's subplot has been leaked online on YouTube by Taha Aamir without Jacob's permission (despite doing nothing to Taha). Fearing it will ruin the film and its predecessor, Jacob kindly warned the thief, and quickly deleted the original file off Drive but keeping them on iMovie to avoid the same mistake. Originally, Jacob was feeling very suspicious with the production team to see if anyone has given the link or leaked it, but later found out that Taha was planning the leak all along for a small reason Jacob had nothing to do with. Later, he would find out the thief was most likely Delta after realising the link was leaked due to a test trailer Jacob would reject.

* Around the same time, an imposter of JacHarv (Yumi) copied the film's teaser trailer and title and claiming it as his own. Jacob would go on to accuse Yumi of plagiarism.

As of November 2022, the original film got quietly cancelled due to Jacob being burned out during the Summer that year and due to the co-director doing nothing at all with the film and his own ideas (instead focusing on his lore and ARGs). On the same day, however, Jacob Harvey and Lillian Alexia have decided to give the film a newer idea.

During 2023, there were originally plans to revive the project, but in the end they never went into fruition. As of October 2023, the movie got entirely scrapped; Jacob felt Mikey was shoving his own lore ideas in, as well as zero progress being done.