Adam Sandler said he had to rewrite Happy Gilmore 2 following Carl Weathers’ death. The actor and comedian who is reprising his role as Happy Gilmore in the sequel to his beloved 1996 sports comedy recently told Collider that Weathers’ Derick "Chubbs" Peterson was planned to return for the new movie before he died last year at age 76.

In 1996’s “Happy Gilmore,” Weathers played the golf mentor to Sandler’s Happy Gilmore. Sandler told Collider that Chubbs had a bigger part in the sequel when they were drafting the initial scripts.

Adam Sandler has paid tribute to his late “Grown Ups” co-star with a thoughtful scene in “Happy Gilmore 2,” which premiered on Netflix on Friday. The blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment comes early in the new sequel, when Sandler’s titular character approaches a check-in booth before starting a round of golf.