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Nick Swardson Is Taking Rob Schneider's Place in 'Grown Ups 2'

by | March 5th, 2013

It looks like one of the stars of Grown Ups will be missing when the inevitable sequel comes out this summer. Rob Schneider is the only one of the central five characters who isn't returning for Grown Ups 2, and he's been replaced by his fellow Adam Sandler regular Nick Swardson. Swardson will play an alcoholic school bus driver who's the brother of Rob Schneider's character from the original and sports a similar hairstyle.

The reasons for Schneider not being included in the film are unclear. In a radio interview last year, Schneider cited money issues and a scheduling conflict with his CBS sitcom Rob, explaining, "They're doing Grown Ups 2 without me. Mistake. They should have paid me a lot of money … Well, truthfully, I wasn't sure if I'd have my TV series, so it was an availability thing, but at the end of the day, they should have [said], 'What money does Rob need?'" The scheduling conflict story doesn't quite check out as Rob had been canceled by CBS in May of last year ahead of Grown Ups 2's production, and the movie was filmed during the summer, which is a production hiatus for most network shows. Schneider has also been conspicuously absent from Sandler's last three movies, which is strange considering he's been in nearly every Adam Sandler movie up to that point, so start throwing around your conspiracy theories now.

Tags:

adam sandler, grown ups, grown ups 2, nick swardson, rob schneider

  • http://obscenebinary.tumblr.com/ GoldRhapsody

    My guess is that Rob Schneider is too busy waking up as a stapler.

  • beans

    Rob Scneider is very versatile. He can play serious roles in rollercoaster dramas (The Animal), meaningful civil rights pieces (The Hot Chick), and gritty action flicks (Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo). A real dilettante, he is.

  • NoPantsMcLane

    He is too busy working on Knock Off 2. Or maybe that is just in my dreams.

  • E

    …..HAHAHAHAHA.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1624816530 Augusta Lee Branch

    sounds like he Rob has a HUMONGOUS ego

    • Annie

      Yeh… The only thing humongous about him…

  • http://www.facebook.com/jacques.chicar Jacques Chicar

    Truly, every one of us should think to ourselves each morning, "What money does Rob need?"

    Words to live by.

  • guero

    Sounds like he's suffering from RICHIES syndrome as i call it. People come up, money gets to there head, friendships are lost. He should have done it for 15 bucks a hour like ben aflack did for kevin smith in jersey girl. All for friendship. I hope i never get that rich. I value my friends over money. Hopefully they work out their differences and remember why their friends to begin with.

  • Dutch Guy

    really Rob….money? like you should give a crap about how much you get payed, you did douche bigalow 2 the dutch stereo-typing movie so you should be glad that you can get work in the first place

  • http://www.facebook.com/jeff.orsini Jeff Orsini

    What hes a big member of happy madison productions its not the money its the respect adam sandler is lucky he didnt branch off his success n walk his on ways as all the other big snl actors adam is money hungry thats the way i see it

  • The wraith

    He sounds like an ass. He should want to do the movie to b with his buddies not worry about how much money he'll b getting. Way to b a dick, Rob.

  • evil

    they should have waited on filming the movie until they had rob

  • Talltales08

    First, why make another "Grown-Ups" when the first one should have just been called "Grown", that movie was by far Sandler's worst. Second, Schneider is far more talented than anyone not named Adam Sandler in the original cast.

    • FilmLover37

      yeah but it made a METRIC FUCK TON of money in box office so a sequel is just printing money for them and im sure that Nick will be great in the movie

    • http://www.facebook.com/yates.edward Eddie Yates

      Rob Schneider is far more talented than Chris Rock?

      Drugs are bad……mmkay?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609650156 Joel Colquitt

    Seriously, was Rob Schneider ever that funny to begin with? Even on SNL, he had the copy guy, which was funny for like ten seconds, and that was it. Since then, he's been the starring vehicle of complete crap movies ("The Animal," "Deuce Bigelow 1 & 2," "The Hot Chick"). The only thing he's done that isn't crap is whenever Sandler throws him a bone and lets him be not funny in one of his movies. It's been nearly 20 years since he left SNL, if he can't get his act together and find a steady career like Sandler, Chris Rock and David Spade have, it means he wasn't very talented to begin with. Personally, I thought Schneider was the only weak part about "Grown Ups" and I'm kind of relieved to see him absent from the sequel. He should be thankful for the boost Sandler's given him in his career, a career he most likely wouldn't have if it weren't for Sandler to begin with!

  • Daleky

    He's a crap actor anyway

  • Harry Styles

    Nick won't be as a(maze)ing as Rob was

    • Lauren D.

      *maize

  • http://www.facebook.com/justin.m.beemer Justin Michael Beemer

    Back to washing floors rob

  • Fan of everything Adam Sandler

    Anyone think he was joking, and that there was just a conflict with his series? That's what it sounds like…

  • matt

    Its a money issue. Chris Rock and David Spade did an interview promoting the first movie on Howard Stern. Howard kept pressing them for details on money and if they were satisfied about where they fell in the pay scale. They played smart and said that they were happy with the money. When Stern wouldn't relent Rock admitted that the only person in the crew who was upset with money was Schneider and said he complained about it through the entire production. He said in regards to the sequel that he wanted more money which obviously means that he money was still a sore subject between the two.

    I understand that Schneider wants to be compensated but he has no real career left as a leading man in movies and he's clearly the smallest name of the 5 leads. The only time he really pops up is in Sandler movies. He should take advantage of these movies to try and get his name back out there. Now he doesn't have a tv show and he is missing out on a big check that he can't get anywhere else.

  • MannyYTHEPUCKPacquiaO

    when you talk about adam sandler's movie…rob is always there

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