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Here's what we know about the Ferris Bueller spin-off movie
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18 Sep 2022, 10:45
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Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Are you a fan of John Hughes seminal 1986 comedy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Who isn't!
Here's some exciting news. Cobra Kai creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg, are set to make a new movie set within the 'world' of Ferris Bueller, called Sam & Victor’s Day Off.
There never was a sequel to the much loved original. Lead Matthew Broderick told Vanity Fair in 2010; “We thought about a sequel to Ferris Bueller. He’d be in college or at his first job, and the same kind of things would happen again. But neither of us found a very exciting hook to that. The movie is about a singular time in your life.”
But the Cobra Kai team - who let's face it, know a little something about replicating an 80s vibe - obviously think there's plenty of space to tell stories around that of Ferris. The new movie will take place on the same day as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, but focus on the valets who took the Ferrari.
“We are children of the ’80s," Hurwitz told Variety. "When we talk about the seminal movie experiences of our lives, there’s a five-year period from ’83 to ’88, where a lot of those movies fall for us. Ferris Bueller was such a moment in our lives. We love side journeys. In Ferris Bueller, there’s this great wish fulfilment happening with these two valets, who take this amazing Ferrari on the ultimate joyride.”
“We only get a couple of glimpses of them leaving, cresting a giant hill, taking the car airborne and then returning it,” he continued. “What’s going on in their lives? They seem to be living a very different experience than Ferris, who lives in the ultimate suburbia. What may have led to them needing that car, wanting that car and taking it? When you begin to unravel all the threads, it sparked a lot of ideas.”
But surely even going near such a beloved film is a risky move? Well, the team currently promoting the return of Cobra Kai have promised they will not “touch or mess with Ferris Bueller in any way.”
“We’re not interested in remaking something,” Heald added. “We love it so much, we want to explore it more. The similarity with Cobra Kai is it started with a point-of-view that you haven’t seen. In Karate Kid, what if you were in Johnny’s shoes? It makes you look back at The Karate Kid in a fun, different way. It keeps that movie alive in a different way. If things work out with this, it would be similar.”
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