Posted on 08/19/2022 7:18:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
John Hughes’ classic 1986 teen comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is getting a spinoff about two characters who played a small but pivotal role in the original movie.
According to Deadline, the new film, titled Sam and Victor’s Day Off, will follow the two titular valet employees who, in the 1986 classic, take Cameron Frye’s father’s red Ferrari for a cross-town joyride while Cameron, Ferris and Sloane Peterson gallivant around Chicago on their day off. Sam and Victor run up the odometer on the prized red Ferrari, forcing Cameron to decide how he’s finally going to confront his father, with whom he has a fraught relationship.
Sam and Victor’s Day Off, which is in the works at Paramount Pictures, comes from Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald. Actor and writer Bill Posley (The Neighborhood, Cobra Kai, Bitch Ass) will supply the script.
The (unnamed) valet attendants in the original film were played by Richard Edson and Larry “Flash” Jenkins, the latter of whom died in 2019. There’s no word yet on who will star in Sam and Victor’s Day Off, or whether any of the original film's cast members will return.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off starred Matthew Broderick as the titular Ferris, Alan Ruck as Cameron and Mia Sara as Sloane. It also featured a pre-Dirty Dancing Jennifer Grey as Ferris' sister Jeannie, Jeffrey Jones as principal Ed Rooney, Ben Stein as the infamously monotone economics teacher and Charlie Sheen as a young delinquent who appeared briefly in a police station scene.
The film grossed $70 million against a $5 million budget and has become one of the most beloved comedies of all time. The song “Oh Yeah” by Swiss electronic music duo Yello, which played during scenes involving the convertible Ferrari, became a cultural touchstone in the wake of the film’s succes.
Key & Peele, The Valets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5NC7eI_KMw
These guys are relentlessly funny.
The Ferrari getting air in slow motion while the majestic opening strains of the “Star Wars” theme song overlay the scene is one of the most hysterical and iconic pieces of movie history. LOL.
No, they didn't.
What they did was totally inconsequential.
The fact that Ferris did not know how to roll back the odometer, that was the pivotal thing that lead to his confronting his father.
And for the love of mike someone go rent these people some creativity.
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Best scene in the movie.
(Larry “Flash” Jenkins)
Two cops and Gummy...🤔
Their non creativity means that they are not thinking of marketing their movies to me. They are marketing it to relatively young people with little real world experience and notions, and concerns. To many of those customers, this movie will be new and fresh.
Yep, it took a “Real Genius” to come up with something like this.
I doubt anyone will be breaking out the popcorn
Thanx
The toughest part of making this film concept work is trying to duplicate the genius and talent of the late, great John Hughes.
The only director I can think of who may have come close is Shawn Christensen, who wrote, directed, starred in (and more) the Academy award-winning short, “Curfew.”
Despite the haters and self-elevated critics on this thread I believe Ferris Bueller is a masterpiece of entertaining film-making because they never lost sight of the goal: entertain the people who paid to be in the the seats. The mentally ill making all this woke crap losing millions of dollars now days don’t get we normal people will not share their delusions. Choke on those pronouns.
Lame..... This movie will not get made.
Haha. Very good, Bobo. You are on the path to redemption.
The movie was trash. We were supposed to think Ferris Bueller/Matthew Broderick was cool. He was not cool. He woulda got pantsed at my high school.
Why you think the homos love him so much?
And how about that girlfriend. Wow.
I'll give you that one. She was a hot little number. And the only thing good about the movie other than Ben Stein's 'Bueller...Bueller' scene.
The kid was far from what they tried to make him. His 'outrageous' behavior was contrived and pedestrian.
This movie was no 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High', and Bueller was no Jeff Spicoli. We try too hard to make the movie a classic. It's forced. Our generation wants so badly to have 'iconic' movies to huddle around and preen over. Look elsewhere.
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I predict woke nonsense.
“Gummy” from Fletch is dead? Bummer……:(
A “sequel” based on very minor characters from a 35+ year old movie? How utterly f**king lame. Really, Hollywood?
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