Carl Weathers was set for 'Happy Gilmore 2' before death

“Happy Gilmore 2”, which falls on Netflix on July 25th, had almost another actor from the original film: Carl Weathers -The Derick “Chubbs” Peterson played, the action professional -Golfer, which comes to an unfortunate end. However, Weathers died on February 1, 2024 at the age of 76. The film started to make it later this year.

“We had a painful change. Carl Weathers had a massive part,” said Sandler in an interview with Collider. “I would talk to Carl and we were excited and then Carl died. We had to rewrite a lot of things, and even what the story was. We made a lot of nice indications of how great chubbs was in the film. That was the biggest change.”

Chubbs played an important role in the plot in the first designs in the story of “Happy Gilmore 2”. “In the first version we came up with, he had a son. He came back to me in my dreams and had a son who was angry that he caused Daddy's death,” said Sandler.

When Weathers was the first “Happy Gilmore” to be released in 1996, Weathers was suffered an injury in real life, which he has to do with back questions for the rest of his life.

“I didn't tell anyone because I am, I'm hard, man, man,” said the “rocky” actor GQ in 2020.

Weathers said the accident had taken place during a “blind fall” stunt. “There are stunt bags that are perhaps two feet big. But the bag was not completely pressed against the wall. When I went backwards, instead of beating something flat, my body was somehow caught, my head was on my pockets and my dive leg on the wall, so it is simply on the spine.” But again I am an athlete, I'm hard, I am an actor. And after about three or more of it, I said: 'Not more of it. “

“Happy Gilmore 2” premiere on Netflix, July 25th. Look at the trailer below.