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(Chicago Sun-Times) Followup It looks like 80's nostalgia didn't die with John Hughes; there are plans to make movies from recently discovered scripts in the late writer/director's home   (blogs.suntimes.com) divider line 38
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TheBitterest
2010-03-09 09:27:24 AM
I'm already looking forward to Planes, Trains and Automobiles 2: Dell's Revenge and Ferric Bueller's Christmas Vacation.
 
Son of That Guy [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 09:43:46 AM
Article doesn't say whether Hughes would have wanted this stuff produced. I'm guessing not.
 
SurfaceTension [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 09:52:18 AM
Can we get a "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NOOOOOOOOO!" tag, please?
 
ThatGuyGreg [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 10:07:03 AM
TheBitterest: Ferric Bueller's Christmas Vacation

Oh the iron-y
 
kronicfeld [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 10:08:59 AM
Ah, yes, I personally cannot wait for the coming-of-age films Honey-Do List, Groceries, and Emergency Numbers.
 
FeedTheCollapse
2010-03-09 10:18:05 AM
because Drillbit Taylor was gold?
 
mentallo69
2010-03-09 10:30:42 AM
Good these guys need more work.....Except Judd Nelson he is farking harsh!

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srhp29
2010-03-09 10:30:58 AM
Son of That Guy: Article doesn't say whether Hughes would have wanted this stuff produced. I'm guessing not.

I was thinking this myself. If he wanted them made, he would have probably made an effort to make them.
 
Fano
2010-03-09 10:37:39 AM
FTA:"Grisbys Go Broke," has been making the rounds, with Paramount, which has a long history with Hughes dating back to "Ferris Beuller's Day Off," picking at the script. The goal would be a comedy about a wealthy Chicago family that goes broke and is forced to move to the boonies to cope.

Huh. So, like, the Grizwolds meet Funny Farm?
 
unlikely [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 10:46:04 AM
Maybe his success came from his ability to choose the good stuff out of the pile of available scripts. Maybe it was his ability to say "Hm, this isn't good, I won't film this."
 
Killer Refresh Rate
2010-03-09 10:47:39 AM
How about they pull up all that extra footage he shot for Planes Trains and Automobiles and give us the extended 3 hour version? Or at least just put the footage on a special edition DVD or something!
 
schattenteufel [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 10:49:50 AM
Fano: FTA:"Grisbys Go Broke," has been making the rounds, with Paramount, which has a long history with Hughes dating back to "Ferris Beuller's Day Off," picking at the script. The goal would be a comedy about a wealthy Chicago family that goes broke and is forced to move to the boonies to cope.

Huh. So, like, the Grizwolds meet Funny Farm?


Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It's Arrested Development.
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itazurakko [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 10:56:33 AM
80's nostalgia? When those movies came out they were contemporary.
 
zinethar
2010-03-09 10:57:25 AM
srhp29 was thinking this myself. If he wanted them made, he would have probably made an effort to make them.

Yeah, exactly, cause, you know, when you're planning on dying unexpectedly, you're really gonna want to tie up those loose ends and do everything you ever wanted to do.

Dumbass
 
Fano
2010-03-09 11:02:18 AM
itazurakko: 80's nostalgia? When those movies came out they were contemporary.

Maybe they mean the huge wave of 50s-60s nostalgia that was crammed down our throats in the 80s. You know, the Wonder Years, lots of coming of age in the 50s-60s, etc etc.
 
E_Henry_Thripshaws_Disease
2010-03-09 11:28:15 AM
I misread that as John Holmes
 
Zanysportslady
2010-03-09 11:33:07 AM
even if they do make them, they won't be like a Hughes film because he's not around to stop them from being shredded by a contemporary Hollywood machine...

or some such stuff
 
FishyFred [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 11:33:15 AM
Quick tangent: I think The Cove was a lame issue movie, but I can never get enough Fisher Stevens in my life.

/because his name is The Plague
 
Foolkiller
2010-03-09 11:38:46 AM
Son of That Guy: Article doesn't say whether Hughes would have wanted this stuff produced. I'm guessing not.

I believe in his EW obituary story he had a bunch of scripts that he didn't think were good enough to produce. Unfortunately, he is not the average movie studio executive who will greenlight every scrap of paper in his house. Coming soon: Phone Bill from the man who brought you Ferris Bueller.
 
srhp29
2010-03-09 11:56:22 AM
zinethar: Yeah, exactly, cause, you know, when you're planning on dying unexpectedly, you're really gonna want to tie up those loose ends and do everything you ever wanted to do.

Dumbass

John Hughes hadn't directed a movie since 1991.

John Huges hadn't produced a movied since 2001.

Matter of fact, he had hardly done anything worth mentioning as far as movies goes in over a decade.

You are the Dumbass.
 
GungFu
2010-03-09 11:56:34 AM
I'm glad they did that tribute for him at the Oscars.

My teen years was infused by his films and its soundtracks.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a farking classic in any era.
 
poot_rootbeer
2010-03-09 11:56:35 AM
unlikely: Maybe it was his ability to say "Hm, this isn't good, I won't film this."

Explain all the parts of "Career Opportunities" not involving Jennifer Connelly, then.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 12:03:40 PM
poot_rootbeer: unlikely: Maybe it was his ability to say "Hm, this isn't good, I won't film this."

Explain all the parts of "Career Opportunities" not involving Jennifer Connelly, then.

That was one lucky wooden horse.

and the Breakfast Club sucked. The pretty goth girl is suddenly happy after dressing in what society deems normal. What kind of message is that? Vacation was good.
 
Unsung_Hero
2010-03-09 12:05:46 PM
I just want to see 'Breakfast Club II: Reunion', with all the original cast.
 
Fano
2010-03-09 12:17:40 PM
Mugato: poot_rootbeer: unlikely: Maybe it was his ability to say "Hm, this isn't good, I won't film this."

Explain all the parts of "Career Opportunities" not involving Jennifer Connelly, then.

That was one lucky wooden horse.

and the Breakfast Club sucked. The pretty goth girl is suddenly happy after dressing in what society deems normal. What kind of message is that? Vacation was good.

What? You mean that goth girls don't cut themselves, act like they are promiscuous, and listen to the Cure only because the Prom Queen/Junior Leaguers shun them?

How could the normal pretty girl ever understand and accept that someone could have a different world view? No, surely she was that way because the popular girls didn't like her enough and get to know her.

Off to bang the prom queen
 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 12:21:19 PM
I don't think John Hughes got over John Candy being worked to death. It pretty much was murder.

/Although I believe John Candy's father died young due to heart disease.
 
ecmoRandomNumbers [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 12:26:13 PM
ThatGuyGreg: TheBitterest: Ferric Bueller's Christmas Vacation

Oh the iron-y

Heh.
 
zinethar
2010-03-09 12:29:15 PM
srhp29: John Hughes hadn't directed a movie since 1991.

John Huges hadn't produced a movied since 2001.

Matter of fact, he had hardly done anything worth mentioning as far as movies goes in over a decade.

Which of course gives you, above all, keen insight into his plans and aspirations.

He kept writing, neither you nor I could possibly guess what he wanted to do or was planning on doing with what he was creating.
 
apeiron242
2010-03-09 12:45:59 PM
Nostaligia isn't what it used to be.
 
AnotherDisillusionedCollegeStudent
2010-03-09 12:50:31 PM
90s nostalgia is going to freak me out.
 
IdBeCrazyIf
2010-03-09 12:51:20 PM
But will they film it in the north suburbs of Chicago?
 
FishyFred [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 01:02:55 PM
AnotherDisillusionedCollegeStudent: 90s nostalgia is going to freak me out.

Step one: Acquire first two seasons of The Adventures of Pete and Pete on DVD.
Step two: Watch
Step three: Cry because that was over 15 years ago.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 01:09:10 PM
AnotherDisillusionedCollegeStudent: 90s nostalgia is going to freak me out.

Drama/Comedy: Angsty white collar professionals who hate the jobs most of us in the 2000's would kill for

Action: "Die Hard in a bus/boat/train/ski lift"

Horror: Smart ass teens with clever dialog satirizing 1980's slasher films

Romantic comedy: Pretty much the same

I miss the 90s.
 
itazurakko [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 01:33:53 PM
AnotherDisillusionedCollegeStudent: 90s nostalgia is going to freak me out.

Well, this year's college freshmen were born in 1992, so it's about due.

Hit college, reminisce about how things were "back when you were a kid" or better yet, when the people who were SLIGHTLY older than you (so old enough to be cool, but not too old) were kids. So recently we've had the fake 80's retro shirts, but the 90's are surely on the way.

Nirvana, maybe? Grunge?

/it always pretty much smells like teen spirit
 
Dumb-Ass-Monkey [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 03:06:11 PM
I admit, I kinda teared up watching the Hughes tribute. His movies really did have an effect on my childhood. As a child of the 80s, I can say that John Hughes really knew what he was writing about.
 
Dwight_Yeast
2010-03-09 04:47:50 PM
Really good article about John Hughes (new window)

Apparently the man couldn't stop writing. When his scripts stopped selling he took to composing lengthy emails to everyone he knew about whatever was on his mind.

I'm sure that there are a ton of scripts that didn't get produced, and that the early ones will be the best. It also wouldn't surprise me to find out that he wrote even more movies under pen names than we knew about.
 
AnotherDisillusionedCollegeStudent
2010-03-09 06:19:02 PM
itazurakko: Hit college, reminisce about how things were "back when you were a kid" or better yet, when the people who were SLIGHTLY older than you (so old enough to be cool, but not too old) were kids. So recently we've had the fake 80's retro shirts, but the 90's are surely on the way.

I'm 25 in a month, so you're probably talking about the people my age. It should be AnotherDisillusionedLawStudent now.
 
bingo the psych-o
2010-03-09 07:05:14 PM
www.fanny-hill.net

RIP John Hughes
 
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