EXCLUSIVE: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off stars Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck are negotiating to reunite in The Best Is Yet To Come, a comedy that Allan Loeb scripted and Jon Turteltaub will direct. The film is backed by MRC and Lionsgate is in talks to distribute. It is based on the French film of the same title.
Amy Baer is producing through her Gidden Media banner, and the executive producer is Dimitri Rassam, who produced the 2019 original through his company Chapter 2. Loeb will also be EP.
Last time Broderick and Ruck held the screen together, the latter played a disillusioned son of a wealthy man, a dad who seemed to prize his 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder more than his son. That lead the kid to launch the classic car out a glass window, a dilemma even his best pal Ferris is hard pressed to fix. Here, they will take another road trip.
They play best friends who, through a colossal misunderstanding that creates a ticking clock, hop in a car to find the estranged son of one of them and also try to do all the things that life has prevented them from doing. The original was directed by Alexandre de La Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte.
Broderick and Ruck (Succession) have stayed friends since first starring in the John Hughes 1986 touchstone comedy.
Broderick is repped by CAA and Entertainment 360, Loeb is repped by WME and Mosaic, Turteltaub by WME and Oasis Media, Ruck by IAG and Teitelbaum Artists Group.
Deals are being finalized and the filmmakers are eyeing a summer production start. Lionsgate declined comment.
FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF, Alan Ruck, Matthew Broderick, 1986, (c) Paramount/courtesy Everett Collection
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