This Friday, July 25, 2025, Happy Gilmore 2 was added to the Netflix catalog. Twenty-seven years after the first component, Adam Sandler therefore returns to a golf course. But following the death of one of the flagship actors in the first film, history had to be rewritten.
If there is an actor who collaborates very well with Netflix, it’s Adam Sandler. For many years, the 58 -year -old actor has been following comedies such as You can forget my Bat-Mitsva! Who made a box on the streaming platform. A film that still made a little controversy. Another film in which Adam Sandler plays? Murder Mysteryin which he replies to Jennifer Aniston. Again, this comedy worked very well on Netflix, whether it is the first or second part elsewhere.
Happy Gilmore 2 : the death of this actor changed the film
This Friday, July 25, 2025, Adam Sandler returns to Netflix in the film Happy Gilmore 2. Twenty-seven years after the first part, the actor therefore returns to resume his role asHappy Gilmore. A film that had to be rewritten after Carl Weathers’ death in 2024. The latter would have succumbed to cardiac arrest due to cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis, at the age of 76. Initially, it was planned to resume his role as Chubbs Peterson, Golf coach and Happy mentor. In an interview with ColliderAdam Sandler said : “We experienced a painful change. Carl Weathers had a major role. I was chatting with Carl, and we were enthusiastic, then Carl died. We had to rewrite a lot of things, and even the story. We made many sympathetic references to the greatness of Chubbs in the film. It was the most important change.”
Adam Sandler unveils the first version of the film before the death of Carl Weathers
In the first part of the film, Chubbs Peterson died after falling from a window. In this suite, a scenario was well put together for this character. “In the first version we imagined, he had a son”Adam Sandler revealed during this interview before revealing: “He often returned to my dreams, and he had a son who wanted Happy to have caused the death of his father.”
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