Ferris Bueller is 30

John Hughes made his classic movie for a mere $5M, a kind of side project to recover from his runaway successes w with The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles — it had everything, even Ben Stein speaking words without revealing the fact that he is a colossal asshole.

Prior to his death in 2009, Hughes told the world that a Ferris sequel would be stupid: "We thought about a sequel to Ferris Bueller, where 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."

I'd love to see a modern Ferris reboot, in the vein of the op-sec-ish stuff in Little Brother, in which Ferris exfiltrates his friends from the school's surveillance network, confounds the surveillance choppers and the parental location-tracking spyware on their phones, and stunts around modern Chicago. Maybe a black Ferris, who'd also get to dodge stop-and-frisk and racial profiling and Ben Stein saying that the police could draw down on him because he was intrinsically armed with his own personal self. Seriously, it would work — it worked for Annie, right?

Matthew Broderick, who played Ferris, echoed his sentiments saying it was about a specific "lightning flash in your life"

Alan Ruck (Cameron) also concurred, "But just for fun", he added, "I used to think why don't they wait until Matthew and I are in our seventies and do Ferris Bueller Returns and have Cameron be in a nursing home. He doesn't really need to be there, but he just decided his life is over, so he committed himself to a nursing home. And Ferris comes and breaks him out. And they go to, like, a titty bar and all this ridiculous stuff happens. And then, at the end of the movie, Cameron dies."


Ferris Bueller took his Day Off 30 years ago today
[Christopher Hooton/The Independent]

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