Ooooh, this could be so very good or so very, very bad.
There is a finished script being shopped in Hollywood for a sequel to the 1986 teen classic.
Titled “Ferris Bueller 2: Another Day Off,” the movie places Ferris on the eve of his 40th birthday. The script was written by Rick Rapier, a screenwriter based in Arizona. Rapier provided “Stuck in the ’80s” with an exclusive and complete copy of the 106-page script.
Is it good? I thought it was a blast. I read it in a single afternoon and was impressed with the care Rapier took with the original story and characters. The story has the same feel, humor and pace as the 1986 movie, which should please hard-core Ferris fans.
The movie fast-forwards Ferris’ life about 20 years. In the years since high school, Ferris has turned his carefree “Life Moves Pretty Fast” motto into a motivational self-help career — think Tony Robbins, only with a beret and sweater vest. His best friend Cameron is still at his side, managing his massive business.
But despite his phenomenal success, Ferris is a bit distracted on his 40th birthday (which, considering his massive fame, is being watched on pay-per-view TV by millions of devoted fans). He decides to take the day off, sending Cameron, his business associates and family into a frenzy.
The screenwriter hopes John Hughes will get back into the director’s chair, and that the original cast will come back for the sequel. They want to get Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Jennifer Grey and, of course, Ben Stein, whose character is now an airline gate representative.
Good idea?
Bad idea?
What do you think?
Life and aging has not been kind to any of these people and the story is pretty much lame I bet I know the ending already.. so I will read the reviews on movie spoiler and pretend I saw it.
Oh, Alan Ruck, he was some hot piece of ass back then. Dreamy eyes, too.
Reminds me a bit of Ed Norton there!
Following a suburban kid and his pals around the ‘burbs sounds pretty lame too, doesn’t it Clementine? Yet to Ferris fans like me it’s about the devil being in the details, and the result was a classic. Stuck in the 80s revealed the premise, not the plot, which is the story, and the story in Another Day Off is a blast, just like the original.
Hollywood has gone sequel-crazy! Writers must have been lacking inspiration for the past 10 years. Spiderman 3 was the low point, in my opinion. I mean, I’m not aware of a movement to see another Ferris Bueller among movie goers, although, I’d pay 8 bucks to see a 5 minute clip of Ben Stien repeating monotonously, “Bueller…Bueller…Bueller…Fry…Fry…Fry”. Please Hollywood, stop trying to force feed us potentially crappy movies. Stop the madness!