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FERRIS BUELLER 2'!'!'!'! Let it be so!
Well folks... It seems that Ferris Bueller may very well be telling us how to let loose again. And personally... I can't wait. I LOOOOOVE the first film, and after watching Broderick basically playing the Jeffrey Jones character, but in ELECTION... well... I'm looking forward to the possibility of him playing Ferris again. Heh... John Hughes... wherever you are.... Make magic again!
Harry,
John Hughes is currently writing on the ultra top secret project: FERRIS
BUELLER'S DAY OFF 2.
The project will, if all goes according to plan, Matthew Broderick as
Ferris, but when he is 15 years older and working at a large corporation in
chicago.
There could also be a reprise by the actor who played Cameron, who has been a
lead on SPIN CITY for the past few years. No info if they plan on bringing
back either Mia Sara or Jennifer Grey, or any other characters.
But this project is parked at
Paramount Pictures, who made the original. This is very exciting to me and
hopefully to you.
All my best & Merry Christmas,
The Midnight Caller
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I like Broderick, but his film persona hasn't been that appealing lately. All that earnest nerdishness ill-becomes him. It'll be gerat to see him play CONFIDENT again.
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I would love to see this if they could get everyone back for it. Matt Broderick erased GODZILLA from my memory with ELECTION, and can even make me forgive INSPECTOR GADGET. It would be great for him to do this. Seeing the entire cast back would give me the same feeling of anticipation I had in the theater a few minutes before The Phanton Menace started. But I'm scared that I'll be disapointed though.
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I just don't know....when somethings perfect a sequel can really create that disatrous feeling of disappointment. I doubt Jennifer Grey will be in it last I heard Matthew and her were less than friendly.
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Well, well, well. Another undoubtedly lame sequel. Fuck this. It's 12:38 AM and I'm bored, I pop into Ain't-It-Cool-News to alleviate the post-cinemagoing blues, and what do I find? This shit, plus Desmond Llewellyn has just passed on!!! What a royal fucking bummer. I'm heading to the IMDb to look up this Jason Lee character. He played evil so well as Azrael, and he is hot!
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When I first read the subject line, I thought, "Uh-oh. It's gonna suck. I don't know if they can do it right." But the more and more I thought about it, the more I realized how cool it could be. The only thing is, isn't it a little easier to skip work than it is to skip school? You know what would be kind of cool? If Ferris and Cameron went on a road trip to get Sloane and completly rehash that first day off. And along the way, Rooney, who now works as a cop, recognizes them and goes after them. We get a whole SMOKEY & THE BANDIT thing going...no, wait. That sucks. Forget that idea, Hughes. That would be doing it wrong. I get ahead of myself. But you know what would be a nice touch? If Cameron had that same car that his dad did--the one Cameron destroyed.
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If you stop to do a meaningless sequel, it can pass you by. But I loved the original, and if this is not a rip on Office Space, I could go for it.
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The first movie is a classic!
It's always a geat movie to watch with a bunch of friends over. So many things from the first one have stuck with me like....batta batta swing batta! Who can forget the cameo of Charlie Sheen slowly rising his thumb? This will only work if everyone comes back! So make this happen!!!! -
Dec 20, 1999 5:27:10 AM CST
I want to see this as much as I want to see Johnny Depp win an
by dirtfish
Why bother making a sequel the first film was bad enough. I think its a poor film and if there must be a sequel to a John Hughes film then Breakfast Club would be the better choice. John Hughs has gine soft and could nevere reproduce his films of he 80'S he's done too many Home Alone and Baby Day Outs. Brodedick is possibly the worst actor around and after Godzilla and Inspector Gadget he should not be given another starring role. He should be entered into the class of Paulie Sore, Johnny Depp, Brian Dehnehhy, Anna Nicole Smith, Jeff Bridges and Sofia Coppola.
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Their are so many avenues you could go down on this one. It's got really exciting possibilities, but it could end up like Blus Bros. 2000. Fingers crossed.
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Jeff Bridges for my money is not a good actor. Yes he's undertaken several good roles but has not made the most of them. Its one thing to be in good films but if he can't bring nothing to the film then he should not be in the film.
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If JH has regained his savvy for the then-teen generation he so marvellously depicted in his glut of brat pack movies, a sequel to FBDO could be fantastic. After watching The Breakfast Club again the other day I found myself pondering what may have happened to the characters. And the same is true for Ferris and Cameron et al. Oh and please lay off Broderick; he is a fantastic actor who often has to make shit to remain in the public eye. I'd rather have him over some Cruise/Pitt type any day!!
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Yeah, this movie could be really really good. but it has to be done PERFECTLY. Otherwise it will crash badly.
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Probably because FB is my age and it's always interesting to see what became of cool people. Hopefully he will still be cool. Imagine a sequel to the Breakfast Club. That would be the scariest film to see. But how would they incorporate the principle?
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This is the first sequel I've heard about in a long time that has sounded like a good idea. I really love the first one, but it does seem like a natural for future progression. Ohhhhh yeahh, wum bum bum, ohhhhhhh, chicka-chica. I can't wait.
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FERRIS BEULLER'S DAY OFF is one of my favorite films, and I always wanted to see Matthew Broderick reprise the role in another BEULLER film. The sequel seems like a no-brainer -- now that Ferris is an adult, working in the "real world", is he still the same old "smarter than everyone" kid at heart? Is Cameron still moping around, depressed -- did he ever tell off his dad??? This movie should have been made years ago, and personally, I'm glad it's finally getting made. Fingers crossed that all goes well... -- Nick
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It was a low-budget film written by John Hughes and directed by his protege, whose name escapes me. In any event, it was an awful script that translated into an unbearable movie. If this is the level at which Hughes is writing, I would rather he not cheapen the memory of his greatest triumph (well, okay it's a toss-up between FERRIS and SIXTEEN CANDLES, but they're both minor masterpieces in my book.)
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I think a sequel to Ferris is an interesting idea. The first one was all about living life and being young and anti-establishment. I think it would be neat to see Ferris as part of that establishment. A "taking it down from the inside" kind of thing. Cameron should definitely be back. Sloan too (she was hot. Whatever happened to her?), but no Jones or Grey (just TOO hokey and unecessary...cameos at the most)....As for the Breakfast Club sequel, that was revealed to be false. Rather, Hughes is making a film that is a cross between BC and the first Vacation movie. Sort of a "Detroit Rock City" thing I suppose.... A Breakfast Club sequeal could be made around 2004, and be about their 20th high school reunion. Ok, so it's an unoriginal idea, but it's the only logical reason I can think of to get them all together again.
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I don't think so. I don't think Dirtfish has seen all of their films or he/she would not make such an ignorant comment.
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that should probably read "A Breakfast Club movie SHOULD be made in 2004" instead of "COULD be made". Don't want to add fuel to any rumors. Damn semantics!
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Johnny Depp and Pauly Shore (not sore) in the same league? I think he forgot to mention Robert deNiro, David Hasselhoff, Sir Laurence Olivier, Pamela Anderson and Bugs Bunny.
It always startles me how some people even manage to type properly (well mostly)...
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Home Alone 3....but they had to go & do the same thing again. Bastages!! I think John Hughes shouldve written the fun for everyone sorta 80s style teen movie that everyone knows he is capable of doing (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller..etc). You know, its easy. Kevin gets left HOME ALONE one last time (to watch the house while parents are out of town). Mac is back to throw his wild teen party & blah blah blah. Hilarity ensues. I suppose there are many reasons for that having not been made. Perhaps it wouldve blown coconut sandwich shoes. John Hughes couldve made it good. Everyone loves a fun teen movie. aoigh[aohg[ofphjnif'ohkga NEVERMIND!!!!
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How about the Breakfast Club group is all assigned to jury duty. There's your freakin' premise! I smell a blockbuster!! Or is that something else?
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Made me laugh out loud...in my cubicle...with my hands in my pants.
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He wants to distance himself from the character!? Are you kidding? He did Godzilla (worst "film" of 1998) & Inspector Gadget (worst "film" of 1999 after Blair Witch!). Are you kidding!? All I have to say is..."BUELLER!!!!!!"
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Count me in, just so long as someone can invent a time machine and go back 15 years and kidnap John Hughes, the director. As opposed to John Hughes, the advertising exec that we have today.
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Harry,with all due respect, are you a moron? My respect for you slips a notch every time you espouse the virtues of another bad idea, as you have with this sequel. If you really enjoyed the first movie so much, you should be horrified.
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First Heathers 2, now Ferris 2?? Come on Hollywood.Get a clue.Get a new idea.I loved both of the original films but I dont want to see Ferris 15 years later.Id rather see a Breakfast Club sequel
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This sounds fairly untrue! Hughes is off doing some breakfast club road trip movie in Illnois (according to tonnes of sources, including Dark Horizons) and Broderick is gonna take on a play on Broadway (I think). When Broderick was doing promo work for Election, he said he and John had wanted to revisit Ferris, but neither were ever free at the same time. I'd love to be proved wrong by them, but I don't think it's gonna happen. What the hell's going on with this cult sequel thing lately anyway!? Heathers, Some breakfast club related thing. Stop trashing great film memories and write original stuff!
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>Broderick won't do it. He's done
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I remember he said a few years ago he'd be open to it. He pictured Ferris as having become some poor hapless corporate cog. Which sounds to me like a terrible idea- somewhat akin to doing a live-action "realistic" non-comedy version of Bugs Bunny. I loved the first one, but I'm afraid the sequel could be on a level with Blues Brothers 2000 (or Smokey and the Bandit 2). Something best ignored. -
Edward Norton?! David Fincher?! You stole that from me! That's that thing that I do! Besides, they'll be to busy doing "SpiderMan." Maybe they can get the Wachowski Brothers, and Bruce Campbell. :)
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If there's any quality Broderick vehicle that could have been revisited this year, it was WarGames. Y2K and fears about "cyberterrorism" and the uncertain status of foreign nuclear arsenals provided a decent, relevant premise for bringing back all the old characters, but for some reason the Y2K theme has been mostly avoided by filmmakers. I have to agree that The Secret of My Success already gave us a good dose of workplace Ferris-type antics so I'd have my doubts about a Ferris 2. As for John Hughes, I don't think Breakfast Club 2 could break much new ground or avoid seeming highly contrived if it covered the original characters -- like the movie said, people in that kind of situation don't really stay friends afterward. However a new high school cast that dealt with contemporary high school life as well as the original film did might work. Might be an eye-opener for the 80s generation that has no idea what the hell is going on in high school now -- seems like students now have less rights and more guns than when I was a teenager, but how would I know?
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Easily one of the decade's best. There should be a sequel, and David Lynch is the man.
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Let's face it, even Siskel & Ebert said this was better than Ferris Bueller. Since Elizabeth Shue is in danger of losing her comeback, this is the perfect vehicle. The added bonus is she looks better now than she did over 10 years ago. She can reprise the dancing in the underwear opening lip-sync, no problem there. This time Elizabeth has just been stood up on a date, and her married friends BEG her to sit for the kids as a favor. Hilarity ensues. Shot on location in Chicago.
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Allright man, now we just need a "Citizen Kane 2: Blood Hungry." Where Charles Kane comes back from the grave 61 years later to devour everyone's brains. Or perhaps a "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: In Space." Angel Eyes' great great great great great grandson Terry Eyes is racing around the galaxy in a spaceship looking for Tuco's great great great great great grandson in order to reclaim the lost loot. Wackiness ensues as the two find themselves stuck on the dreaded Planet XYZ. Or even better, a sequel to "Schindler's List" where Hitler has discovered the meaning of Christmas and decides to save all the Jews from the ovens he created. Don't like that idea, well then, how about a prequel to "Star Wars?" What, they actually did that...pah ha ha ha. You win again Satan!
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If you're going to accuse John of pandering to lowest-common-denominator hype.... of being a hack money-man rather than a cinema artist,... realize that John started out as an advertising executive (in the `70's), and only later began using those skills in high-concept filmmaking. A careful businessman, he was always intimately involved in all aspects of his productions, not only creating and selecting them with demographics in mind, but also self-designing the ad campaigns and writing the "tag" lines. Several of his big 80's movie hits he claims to have written in a matter of days after coming up with their concept, much as he had done with corporate ads. So it's only natural with his sort of "marketing-is-pop-art" business ethic that Hughes tries to make money in the simplest and easiest ways. Although FBDO2 has been rumored ever since the original, it's not unquestionable to consider it as a new 2000/2001 comedy adventure, since "Office Space" - though funny - was a flop ignored by the public. And since most of the public doesn't remember "SOMS," Hughes has a good shot at maximizing corporate humor in 2000, combining the heroes and attitude of FBDO with the nightmarish adult world of "Planes Trains & Automobiles." "FBDO" has always been regarded as one of the greatest teen comedies ever made, so if a sequel gets decent advanced hype, the opening weekend grosses should more than make such a production worthwhile...speaking business-wise. As for Hughes retiring, he and his wife have been semi-retired ever since "Home Alone"... that global blockbuster comedy afforded John his own `Midwestern oasis' paradise - a rural Illinois estate as big as the Universal Studios theme park, with his own lake, farm, mansion, and (man-made) mountain for winter skiing. So John's been living like a king for a decade now, merely writing as a hobby and letting midgets direct for him (Dennis the Menace, 101 Dalmations). Now as he reaches his 50th birthday, John's own kids are all grown up and graduating from college to become adults themselves, so if Hughes is now finally making a personal return to directing, it's probably because he's A) bored, B) inspired anew by his favorite new young filmmakers like Wes Anderson. It also doesn't hurt his motivation that annoying twits like Kevin Williamson have been going around proclaiming themselves as modern Hugheses while churning out not-stop garbage.
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That series ROCKED and Fox TV never knew how to market it, much as they aborted Ben Stiller's brilliant masterpiece show. A Parker Lewis -reinvented-in-movie-form would certainly appeal in this teen-hype era, especially since its creators are currently wasting their talents on the horrible show Get Real. "Adventures in Babysitting 2"? The TV-show spin-off died after only one episode. And as for Siskel & Ebert disrespecting Ferris Bueller, remember that Ebert gave a thumbs up to "Cop & A Half" (THE HORROR!!!) and Siskel said that Renny Harlin's "Die Hard 2: Die Harder" was one of the greatest action movies ever made, the best movie of summer 1990, and far superior to the original Die Hard. He was a little too eager to bathe it with that much drool, as would anybody expecting Disney to spend a penny on Adventures 2, since the original Babysitting made less than half as much money as Ferris. About the only success attributable to AIB was the promotion of Chris Columbus from Spielberg script-slave into the director's chair, though most would agree he did better work as a script-slave.
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.....it still doesn't explain REACH THE ROCK. Tell me it was an old script, or based on an old treatment, or that he really didn't write it..... tell me anything to counter the fact that, as it stands, John Hughes is merely a shadow of his former, talented self.
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So John Hugues is returning to his 80s style... Well he might be in lack of inspiration since the 2 projects in the air are a sequel to The Breakfast Club due in 2000 and now this... a sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Gee... it might be true that intelligence shrinks with aging. Sorry for all you old losers!!
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Have you seen her since the nose job? My god it doesn't even look like the same person. Get another actress with a huge shnoze and no one will notice. BTW DIRTFISH: your line about Jeff bridges is getting old, how many times have you said that? Bridges is a fine actor and so is Johny Depp. While Sofia Coppola may have sucked it big as an actress, she is now an acclaimed director. And as for Shore and Nicole-Smith...well I can't defend them.
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'Nuff said!
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Hughes has always had desk drawers packed with extraneous scripts, many of which never make it to the studio lot. For example, Jackie Chan and John Candy were once lined up to star in THE BEE, which was Hughes' live action combination of The Money Pit and the old Donald Duck cartoon pitting DD vs the honeybee. For ABKing's saliva glands, Hughes also wrote a suburbs-anxiety screenplay called "Bartholomew Vs Neff" which was to star Stallone... REACH THE ROCK was Hughes' cheap little old-fashioned stage-play attempt at a low-budget indie, with a cast of about 5 actors, and fewer sets. It was filmed many yearsss ago by Hughes' former office assistant William Ryan, who Hughes had to babysit constantly like Spielberg did to Tobe Hooper. (According to Patrick Read Johnson, this is how Hughes treats all of his underlings - he trusts his own ideas more than theirs). REACH THE ROCK sat on Universal's dusty shelves until just this past July when the studio finally dumped it on video after a polite/tiny theatrical burp in NY-LA-Chicago (due to contractual obligations they had with John). For those of you insinuating that as Hughes has aged he's has fallen from 80's movie greatness to modern senile worthlessness, compare him to Lucas, Spielberg, Carpenter, etc. They all used to make much better movies than they do now. So Hughes is hardly alone. And even in the 80's John's name was attached to garbage like "Great Outdoors" (oh those raccoons) and "National Lampoon's Class Reunion" (which comes out on DVD next spring). In 2000, Hughes has lined up Jean Reno's American remake of the French blockbuster "The Visitors"; "102 Dalmations" with Gerard Depardieu; the as-yet-untitled `BreakfastClub-on-the-road' teen comedy, and a movie called "New Port South" which was written by John's son James, and will be directed by the FX artist who designed the title sequences of Seven, Twister, and Men in Black. For the record, critics universally condemned "Reach the Rock" as a horrible horrible horrible movie, but among mainstream video renters it's gotten really good worth of mouth (as a simple, likeable, intimate comedy-drama). So whether it's an embarrassment or not is up to the individual. Considering the mixed reputation that a lot of indie comedies receive, and considering that Hughes is a big fan of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson (whose two cult-favorite indie movies Bottle Rocket and Rushmore both cost WAY more than they ever did at the box office), I presume he views Reach the Rock as nothing more than an interesting experimental breakaway from chores like Flubber and Beethoven (from the paws of which he had his name removed). Those wacky bandit slapstick finales were as tiresome as the ones he employed in Career Opportunities and Curly Sue.
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61 CANDLES... SHE'S HAVING THREE MEN AND A BABY... PRETTY IN LEATHER... UNCLE FUCK... BEETHOVEN II: THE WORM MASTER... WEIRD SCIENTOLOGIST... HOME ALONE IV: DIVORCING YOUR PARENTS... CURLY SUE MEETS CURLY DICK... uh, OK I'm done now.
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This'll never happen, not that I don't want it too. I trusyt Hughes enough to think he wouldn't fuck it up, but it's true, Broderick has worked like hell to escape the Ferris stigma, he ain't going back. Plus, I think we've had enough of 80's redone shit. . . Oh well, we'll see. Peace, MadBoy out.
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Dec 20, 1999 5:40:52 PM CST
Something economics...anyone, anyone...Voodoo economics...
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You could only do this movie is Ben Stein has a cameo. Actually, no...I don't want to see this movie done, either. It would work WAY more than Heathers 2 or a Breakfast Club sequel or remake, but Hughes has lost his touch. All his movies lately seem like Home Alone remakes. This movie needs the rebellious, light-hearted spirit of his teen comedies. (It does not need to be a teen comedy, though. I could just see in a few years, Ferris going after his son who has skipped classes. That would suck.) Broderick would be great, but it would depend on the script and if Hughes can get his act together and quit with the hokey slapstick crap. I don't want to see another bucket of goo go on some guy's head. Subtle stuff like in the first Ferris movie is fine...but where would we be without Ed Rooney?
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Well...we all know Hughes' track record with sequels (i.e Home Alone 2) so let's hope he doesn't get the bug to basically retread the plot from the original. But I've always been a huge fan of Ferris 1 and it would be pretty interesting to see what's going on with the characters now that they're fifteen years older. I think an interesting approach would be to have Ferris as an overworked yuppie who, simply, forgot his roots and doesn't know how to have any fun anymore.
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Dear John,
It's perfect timing. We all wanted to live the life of Ferris while in college. Now that we're knee deep in email, voicemail and memorandums you can save us!!!
Don't hesitate, make this movie.
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off...Work"
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Remember the season finale from season one of PLCL? As the camera pulls back, it is revealed that PLCL is actually a play taking place in an auditorium. As the camera keeps pulling back, we see two young men sitting in the back row. We can't see their faces. One of them says: "See? That's how it's done, Ferris," a pointed jab at the TV series "Ferris Bueller," which was supposed to cream PLCL.
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I love Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It's the best of the teenage comedies. In fact, it's so far above them that I hesitate to compare it to the others. BUT John Hughes has done nothing but crap (see 101 Dalmations, Home Alone 2 and Baby's Day Out) that I don't think he would know how to make a good movie if one came up and bit him in the ass. The concept sounds cool, and I would absolutely love to see where Cameron and Ferris and the rest are now, but I just don't want them to make a shitty sequel that makes me think less of the first one, i.e. Blues Brothers 2000 or Austin Powers 2: the Spy who took a big shit all over the first movie!!! Make it good, I warn you, Mr. Hughes, or for God's sake do not make it at all!!!!!
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"He'll never do another Ferris project again."
We'll see!! You think he did Godzilla to expand his range?! He did it to cash in. He saw ID4 & saw what it did for Will Smith & Jeff Goldblum, so you're half right.
If there was a good Bueller2 script, he would do it in a heartbeat, don't kid yourself. It doesn't matter what he or the guy he killed with his car said in any interviews, he did INSPECTER GADGET!!!!
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Let my Cameron go....
Getting the cast back together would be a classic. Especially Rooney's dopey assistant sniffing the liquid paper and the bottle glass eyed girl on the school bus at the end.
Please, please let Cameron be as, if not more neurotic than in the first one.
I'd also like to hear 'Trust me, I'm a professional' just one more time!
Ferris is a lawyer, his firm is approached by Cameron's Dad, whose business is going down the tube, to sue for the long ago damage to his car. Hence, Cameron's purpose for being there. I'm thinking character witnesses. The girl from the bus as the stenographer, still wiping her nose. Mia could be the bitch reporter etc.... an ethics dilema.
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We could all use a vacation from the glut of pathetic teen comedies we're stuck with now. To me, the eighties was the last great era for that type of genre. Nowadays, all we see is bastaedized versions of the movies that we knew and loved. Ferris Bueller had a certain innocence to it that is sorely lacking in the teeny comedies of the 90's. I dunno...maybe I just liked the 80's period.
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Dec 20, 1999 11:29:56 PM CST
If it`s good, it`ll be really good. But if it`s bad........
by elgyn6655321
Well, you know the rest. Cameron should definetly be back, and I hope Jeffrey Jones at least gets a cameo.......I know, I know, he`s a high-school principal, he wouldn`t work into a sequel, but come on folks, he made the original!
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Okay, folks; I'm gonna play a little game of 'what do these films have in common' with you.
Forrest Gump. Highlander. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. What is it that each and every one of these movies have in common? THEY WERE ONCE-OFF PHENOMENONS THAT CANNOT, SHOULD NOT, and MUST NOT EVER HAVE SEQUELS!!!
I know what you're about to say; There were three Highlander movies and spin-off series about a whole bunch of other immortals. In the case of Forrest Gump, there was the sequel book; 'Gump and Co.'.
All of these sequel/spinoffs had one thing in common - THEY ARE SHIT! Ferris Bueller had a spinoff television series that stared (among others) a young Jennifer Aniston. This proved one thing; FBDO could only be done with the original cast, the original director and the original writer (John Hughes). But, folks, seriously, IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG!!! Let's take a look at the principle actors for the moment, shall we? Broderick. Admittedly, he hasnt done too much good since. Ruck. I confess, I like him on Spin City and all the other things he's done. Mia Sara. Sniff. She's all but vanished. Jones. He hasn't really done anything since, and, finally, Grey. Well, besides 'It's like, you know' (is that REALLY her?). Each and every one of them has past the point where a Ferris Bueller sequel is viable.
So, in closing; Remember what Grace said about Ferris? 'They all adore him, he's a righteous dude.' Well, a Ferris sequel would be an un-righteous peice of SHIT!!!
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Further proof that hollywood is creatively bankrupt.
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Kubiak is too mean to be working in a hospital ER.
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I'm sick of all this 80's cilt crapola! Ok, it was an entertaining movie, but please, people, stop sacrificing virgins in it's name!!! Enough is enough. :::steps down from soapbox...and into a doggy-turd::: SHIT!
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If you think Jeff Bridges and Johnny Depp are bad actors, I would like to know who you think are good actors. Let me know, you total arse!
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An open letter to Hughes Entertainment:
Dear Creatively Dead People,
How about Career Opportunities 2: The Next Day? It could pick up right where the last one left off.
Jim (Whaley) and Josie (Jennifer) are lying on the beach. Then Jim decides to try his luck at the casino. He loses all their money forcing Josie to strip at the local club to make ends meet.
You could have the whole casino thing wrap up in 5 minutes or so leaving plenty of time for Connelly to dance topless.
Up your ass John Hughes!
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My Goddess, I almost agree with Marketing Man... except that he forgot Labyrinth among Jen's good films. Oh well. We'll have to see how she does in Aranofsky's next one. And who said Jeffrey Jones hasn't done much since Bueller? He's been working with Tim Burton- playing Criswell (brilliantly) in Ed Wood and the priest guy (again, brilliantly) in Sleepy Hollow. Plus don't forget the shockingly under-rated classic Mom and Dad Save the World- a true gem.
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Hey MM, have you seen Higher Learning? There was lots of rage in that film, not just black rage.
Higher was just a bad film with good intentions, kind of like Ernest Goes to Africa, but with a lesser feeling of pathos.
Singleton threw everything in there but the kitchen sink. Besides, we all know American HIGH SCHOOLS not colleges are the places with true playa-hater gunplay.
NOTE: The scene where Tyra Banks gets sniped and lies on the ground coughing up blood was the alternative ending to Love Stinks.
Oh yeah, and Anton, c'mon, Mom and Dad Save the World? Didn't that also star the box office eating duo of Lovitz and Garr? How good could it be?
>tsk-tsk<
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Dec 21, 1999 1:12:48 PM CST
Ferris 2 Script could be great...(suggestions for excellence wit
by flynno
As with any big sequel, it would have to be done just right. Think about it...15 years later, Ferris is an ad exec who ended up drawn in by his job and realizes that he hasn't "stopped to take a look around" in a very, very long time. His old girlfriend, Sloane, is living in another city...he proposed to her many years ago when high school ended, and she, being the one in the relationship who thinks things through (and being a year younger) said no.
So he got involved at being creative in his job as an ad exec, and 15 years later, a sequence of events makes hime decide that he needs to ditch work for the day and "take a look around" at his life, including getting a hold of Cameron, (who he's been playing answering-machine-tag for several months now) and taking a road trip to where Sloan now lives. Other plot devices would have to include Ed Rooney and how he's decided that Ferris single-handedly ruined his career...who ends up in a temp agency working for Ferris...who then discovers that he's taking a day off...and wants to expose him to his boss for revenge. Throw the fact that Grace is working in the same building and Jeanie is living in the same city as Sloane (and is upset that Ferris still has everything going for him, and all she has to show for life is a on-again, off-again relationship with an ex-drug addict) and decides that she'll do anything to stop him from rolling into town like a hero and reclaiming his life and woman.
With a few twists and turns, Ferris slips back into his old character aged a bit, and now can see a different perspective on what he was, but retains enough general wilyness and creativity to get what he wants done. All in all, I think it could be great (especially if I wrote the script.)
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So here's the thing--this sounds like a great idea to me--love the first one, seems ripe for another look, but why does everyone seem to think that the Sequel has to be "Ferris Bueller's Day Off from Work?" Just because it's a sequel doesn't mean it has to have the exact same story as the first one. What we could get in this is a chance to see how someone with Ferris' mentality about the world ages, and how that mentality ages--done in a funny way of course. But shit, Ferris could have his own KID for cryin' out loud, trying to raise that kid different from how his parents raised him. Frankly, I think if you go in the day off work direction, all you have is a big steaming pile of BOOOOOOORING. . .
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Sigh...I never thought I'd be posting an "AICN SUCKS AND SO DOES HARRY!" type post, but...this site seriously isn't what it used to be. I've been coming here religiously for almost 3 years now, and the drop in quality and, indeed, quantity, of stories is staggering. I remember when there were countless great scoops that no-one else had. The Starship Troopers bugs. Godzilla designs. Stuff that showed harry up to be the spy that hollywood couldn't stop. This site was a spoiler site, giving movie fans advance peeks at stuff still months away. But now, we get "look who's my famous director friend now" posts, egomaniacal articles on exactly how influential Harry is, and my personal most hated...those utterly sickening posts when someone famous dies. You know the drill..."oh man he was the world to me. i've never met, don't have anything to do with him and only ever saw him on screen a few times but...THIS SUCKS! the world will never be the same, yadda yadda". What's the worst though, are those awful reports a la Nanobot on LOTR, which attempts to create sad kiddy characters to hide the fact that there's actually no news. Harry, I don't know what's going on at AICN HQ, but please...in order to protect this site that you created, look though the archives from, say, 18 months ago, and see what AICN was like then...
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Just because Broderick has been in some turkeys, doesn't mean he didn't do them just for the money. Look at how many times he does a big project then heads back to Broadway. He's in an upcoming play with Parker Posey written by Elaine May. His "Inspector Gadget" and "Godzilla" checks pay for Sarah Jessica Parker's clothing budget while he takes no money for hitting the boards.
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Lessee.., Big Lebowski with the Coens. Fearless with Peter Wier. Fisher King with Terry Gilliam (This was HIS movie, despite Robin Williams). Tucker, with Francis Coppola. Cutter's Way with Ivan Passer. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Last Picture Show.., Starman with John Carpenter (Oscar Nomination). He makes even the marginal entertainments at least watchable, and is one of the most underated actors working today.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off is one of the best movies of all time. The Characters, The Writing, The Directing...everything is great. It's definatly up there with on my top 10 movies of all time. Election was such a treat, seeing Broderick basically play the role of Jeffery Jones. Anyways, I really hope that this movie is made, and I really hope that it's a good quality sequel (not like that piece of &^%#^% Home Alone 3). Rooney Eats It!
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I at first thought that all this talk about a sequel was so much rumor, until I watched the original again today. If you remember, there was one line of the original that would tie in perfectly to a potential sequel. Mr. Rooney is talking about Ferris influence on the other students. He says something like, "fifteen years from now when he looks on the wreck his life has become he will remember Ed Rooney." This is right before the secretary says, "you just sounded like Dirty Harry just then." The original was released in '86, so 15 years later would place it in 2001. This does seem to make sense after all.
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This is one of those flicks where if it ain't done JUST right, you get "Blues Brothers 2000," "Superman IV" or any one of a hundred crappy sequels. I sure as hell wouldn't want this project. The concept could work, though--"Office Space" proved that. We'll just have to wait until someone get's their grubby little hands on the script and reports in.
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Finally the charisma, and charm of Ferris Bueller may return to the Silver Screen. Matthew Broderick played one of the most memorable characters in movie history in 1984's "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." Now, in the year 1999, a sequel to that fantastic movie is being contemplated. If this movie becomes a reality, then you know for sure they've already have my $16.00(seeing it twice) dollars at the box office. Broderick is a likable actor, and that added to the great character of Ferris. I remember faking sick after seeing that movie again a couple of years ago. It would bring such a smile to this Ferris fan. This is F.B. on F.B.2
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I think that the sequel to FBDO could have been like Grosse Pointe Blanke. Imagine it - Ferris wigs out, joins the CIA, and becomes an assassin. He returns to rekindle a romance with Mia Sara - oh what could have been (although Grosse Pointe was great).
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I don't know. Ferris in an office? That seems like a huge let down. That wasn't supposed to happen. And I wouldn't want to see a movie that explained how he got there.
Ferris was the kid we all wanted to be in high school. The idea of him working in a 9 to 5 office job is totally depressing.
CEO of an internet start up company maybe. Maybe head of several failed businesses, but never just plain ol office worker.
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