“John Hughes script stirring up interest”
Per THR:
He passed away in August, but the film legacy of John Hughes may not be over.
The late writer-director — who was given an Oscar tribute Sunday — has an unproduced screenplay, “Grisbys Go Broke,” floating around the industry ether. Word crept out Friday that Paramount, which has a long history with Hughes, was picking up the script with hope of turning it into a family comedy with Joe Roth (“Alice in Wonderland”) producing.
And check this out:
The writer-director may have walked away from Hollywood in 1994, but he never lost his desire to write. After his death, family members found reams of unpublished and unproduced material.
John Hughes. Gone, but definitely not forgotten.
UPDATE: H/T to Lee Matthias for sending me this link re a Vanity Fair retrospective of John Hughes. Per slashfilm.com, here are some excerpts:
- Photographer Dan Winters offers a peek into the director’s archieves, including memorabilia and props from some of his films, scans of some of his pocket Moleskine notebooks from 2006/2008, and above is a box of demo tapes, some with temp scores, others with submissions from bands, which Hughes used to generate ideas for the soundtracks of his movies.
- Vanity Fair actually got permission to reprint a few of the “Very, Very Short Stories” Hughes wrote in his yeats away from Hollywood, some of which previously appeared online, published under a pseudonym he borrowed from an old Detroit department store, JL Hudson.
- As part of his profile, Kamp interviewed some of the actors and actresses who worked with Hughes over the years: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Matthew Broderick, and Edit McClurg. He published two pages of ranscripts from these conversations.
David Kamp’s five-page profile is full of interesting information, for example how Hughes came up with the idea for Ferris Bueller one day, pitches it the next, and had the entire script completed seven days later.
Great read for all you Hughes fans.