Adam Sandler has revealed that Carl Weathers was meant to have a big role to play in Happy Gilmore 2, and the actor's death resulted in a major rewrite.
"We had a painful change. Carl Weathers had a massive part," Sandler said in a new interview with Collider. Weathers died in February 2024 at the age of 76. "I 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."
