I'm already looking forward to Planes, Trains and Automobiles 2: Dell's Revenge and Ferric Bueller's Christmas Vacation.

Article doesn't say whether Hughes would have wanted this stuff produced. I'm guessing not.

Good these guys need more work.....Except Judd Nelson he is farking harsh!

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.

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?

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!

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.

80's nostalgia? When those movies came out they were contemporary.

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

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.

I misread that as John Holmes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I just want to see 'Breakfast Club II: Reunion', with all the original cast.

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

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.

Nostaligia isn't what it used to be.

90s nostalgia is going to freak me out.

But will they film it in the north suburbs of Chicago?

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

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.

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.

RIP John Hughes