Ferris Bueller and Cameron Frye are about to have another day off. Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck, on-screen high-school best pals in the classic teen comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, are set to reunite on the big screen. The duo are in talks to star in The Best Is Yet to Come, a new comedy from Lionsgate. Deadline reports that the film is a remake of a French comedy of the same name.
Broderick and Ruck will star as a pair of lifelong best friends; after a tragicomic misunderstanding, one of them comes to believe that the other only has months to live. The two embark on a road trip (hopefully not in a borrowed 1961 Ferrari GT) to find the “dying” man’s long-estranged son, and to rediscover life along the way. The movie will be directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure, The Meg), from a script by Allan Loeb (21, Here Comes the Boom). Deals with the two stars are currently being finalized, and the film is aiming to begin shooting this summer. Although they have not worked together since starring in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in 1986, Broderick and Ruck have remained close friends. In fact, the concept for the film isn’t so far off one pitched by Ruck to People in 2020: “I always thought they should wait until Matthew and I are in our 70s. Cameron’s in a nursing home, and Ferris comes and breaks him out!”
What Is ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ About?
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was written and directed by the late John Hughes, stars Broderick as the titular Ferris Bueller, a happy-go-lucky high school student who lives a charmed existence, beloved by his classmates and parents. With graduation looming, he decides to take a sick day and enjoy a day on the town with neurotic best pal Cameron (Ruck) and best gal Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara). However, his suspicious sister Jeannie (Jennifer Grey) is hot on his trail, as is school official Ed Rooney (Jeffrey Jones). However, Ferris is blithely unaware of any of this as he romps through Chicago in Cameron’s dad’s “borrowed” sports car, making mirth and mayhem wherever he goes.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is one of Hughes‘ most enduring hits: it made $70 million USD on a $5 million budget. It also had a short-lived TV spin-off, Ferris Bueller; it was canceled after one season, but notably starred a pre-Friends Jennifer Aniston as Jeannie Bueller.
The Best Is Yet to Come is in development, and will shoot this summer; no release date has yet been announced.
via Collider