RUCK’S IMPERSONATION OF SLOANE’S FATHER WAS DESIGNED TO MAKE BRODERICK CRACK. Ruck’s agents convinced producers to let the older actor audition when they pointed out that Ruck and Broderick played two characters who were the same age while performing Biloxi Blues on Broadway (Broderick is about six years younger than Ruck.) The two even shared a trailer on the set of Ferris Bueller Broderick’s trailer was much bigger than Ruck’s, so Ruck just moved into the star’s place. MATTHEW BRODERICK AND ALAN RUCK WERE FRIENDS BEFORE SHOOTING. Instead it went to Alan Ruck, who turned 30 years old shortly after the film's release. EMILIO ESTEVEZ TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF CAMERON. Casting directors Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins only seriously considered one other actor for the part: John Cusack. For his part, Hughes said Broderick was the actor he had in mind when writing the screenplay. But he believed that Hughes wrote the roles of Duckie in Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller for him. ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL BELIEVES THAT JOHN HUGHES WANTED HIM TO PLAY FERRIS.Īnthony Michael Hall told Vanity Fair that his relationship with the director ended rather abruptly following their work together on Weird Science, and after Hall had begun working with other directors. The result was Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, another classic teen movie set in Hughes’ favorite fictional town of Shermer, Illinois, which was released on June 11, 1986. that's all I know so far.' Hughes wrote the script in six days, with one day to spare.

In the face of a looming mid-1980s writers strike, John Hughes presented Paramount executive Ned Tanen with a one-sentence pitch: 'I want to do this movie about a kid who takes a day off from school and.

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