The ‘painful’ major change Happy Gilmore 2 had to make that altered the entire story

They had to rewrite loads of the film

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Happy Gilmore 2 has finally landed on Netflix, and Adam Sandler has opened up about a huge last-minute change they had to make to the film.

The sequel picks up 29 years after the 1996 movie, when Happy Gilmore comes out of retirement and returns to golf to pay for his daughter’s ballet classes following the tragic death of his wife.

Chubbs, the iconic golf coach who kick-started Happy’s sporting career in the first film, was actually supposed to play a huge role in the comedy sequel.

In the original movie, he fell out of a window to his death after Happy surprised him with the alligator that bit off his hand, so he couldn’t return as an actual character, but he was going to appear in Adam Sandler’s dreams.

However, the real-life actor who played Chubbs, Carl Weathers, sadly passed away in February 2024 aged 76, so they were forced to change loads of the plot.

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“We had a painful change. Carl Weathers had a massive part,” Adam Sandler told Collider. “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.”

“In the first version that we came up with, he had a son. He 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,” he explained.

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However, they still paid a few lovely tributes to Chubbs throughout the new sequel, including putting his name on the tombstone in the graveyard scene with Shooter McGavin and Happy seeing the golf coach in heaven alongside his wife and Grandma at the end of the film.

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