Spinoffs move pretty fast — if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss one.
That’s right, John Hughes’ beloved hooky opus, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” is getting a makeover at Paramount Pictures, Deadline reports.
Thankfully, “Cobra Kai” creators John Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald aren’t trying to recreate the magic of the 1986 classic with “Sam and Victor’s Day Off,” according to the outlet.
Rather, the trio’s tale — penned by Bill Posley, of “B---h Ass,” who previously worked as an executive story editor for the fourth season of Emmy-nominated “Cobra Kai” — will center on the formerly unnamed, now titular valets who looked over the Ferrari belonging to the father of Ferris’ (Matthew Broderick) best pal, the ever-neurotic — and later catatonic — Cameron (Alan Ruck).
Richard Edson and the late Larry “Flash” Jenkins played the original valets, whose joy ride was given an extra oomph with the help of John Williams’ “Star Wars” theme.
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” saw the high schooler playing sick in order to have one last hurrah blowing off school before embarking on a monotonous path to and through adulthood. He ropes in Cameron and girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) to traipse through Chicago while their principal is determined to expose Ferris for who he really is.
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