{"id":24984,"date":"2025-07-21T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24984\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:18:09","slug":"adam-sandler-rewrote-happy-gilmore-2-after-carl-weathers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24984\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler Rewrote ‘Happy Gilmore 2′ After Carl Weathers’ Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAdam Sandler<\/a> said he had to rewrite Happy Gilmore 2<\/a> following Carl Weathers<\/a>\u2018 death.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor and comedian who is reprising his role as Happy Gilmore in the sequel to his beloved 1996 sports comedy recently told Collider<\/a> that Weathers\u2019 Derick \u201cChubbs\u201d Peterson was planned to return for the new movie before he died last year at age 76<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe had a painful change. Carl Weathers had a massive part,\u201d Sandler shared. \u201cI would talk to Carl, and we were excited, and then Carl passed away. We had to rewrite a lot of the stuff, and even what the story was. We made a lot of nice references to how great Chubbs was in the movie. That was the biggest change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSandler added that in initial drafts of the sequel\u2019s script, Chubbs had a much larger presence. \u201cIn the first version that we came up with, he had a son,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was coming back to me a lot in my dreams, and he had a son who was mad at Happy for causing the death of daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWeathers played Chubbs, a pro golfer who is forced to retire after his hand is bitten off by an alligator, having to use a wooden hand, in 1996\u2019s Happy Gilmore.<\/p>\n

\n\tHappy Gilmore 2<\/a>, directed by Kyle Newacheck, premieres on Netflix July 25. Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen and Ben Stiller also reprised their roles from the original film, while new castmembers include Bad Bunny,\u00a0Margaret Qualley, Benny Safdie,\u00a0Travis Kelce\u00a0and\u00a0Kym Whitley.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing Weathers\u2019 death, Sandler took to social media to pay tribute to his former co-star<\/a>. \u201cA true great man. Great dad. Great actor. Great athlete,\u201d he wrote at the time. \u201cSo much fun to be around always. Smart as hell. Loyal as hell. Funny as hell. Loved his sons more than anything. What a guy!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler said he had to rewrite Happy Gilmore 2 following Carl Weathers\u2018 death. The actor and comedian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[16763,16764,88,16765,206],"class_list":["post-24984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-adam-sandler","tag-carl-weathers","tag-entertainment","tag-happy-gilmore-2","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}