(Right) Matthew Broderick in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ season 3. Photo: Patrick Harbron/Hulu. (Left) Alan Ruck in ‘Succession’ season 3. Photo: Macall B. Polay/ HBO.
Preview:
- Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck are starring in ‘The Best Is Yet to Come.’
- It’s a new comedy from director Jon Turteltaub.
- Allan Loeb adapted the script from a French movie.
Next year will mark 40 years since the release of John Hughes’ classic road trip comedy ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.’
If you greet that news with, “what’s ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?’ then we applaud your youth, but castigate your taste in movies. If you know exactly what we’re talking about, then congratulations, and that sound you hear is your mortal form slowly turning to dust.
The movie starred Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara and Alan Ruck in the story of cheeky, scheming high schooler Ferris (Broderick) who tires of finding ways to skip school only to stay home, and instead hatches a plan for a wild day of adventure and fun, bringing along girlfriend Sloane (Sara) and nervous best pal Cameron (Ruck).
Hughes’ movie has long been seen as among the best of its genre, and includes a variety of memorable scenes, soundtrack cues and even the sort of post-credits gag that predates Marvel and co. by decades.
Now two of the stars of that movie –– Broderick and Ruck –– are, per Deadline, reuniting to share the screen once more, albeit in very different roles.
Assuming their deals work out, the two will star in ‘The Best Is Yet to Come,’ a new comedy in the works from ‘National Treasure’ and ‘The Meg’s Jon Turteltaub.
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What’s the story of ‘The Best Is Yet to Come’?
(L to R) Alan Ruck and Matthew Broderick in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
We say “new” comedy, though to put it strictly, this is a remake of a 2019 French comedy of the same name (though in French it’s ‘Le meilleur reste à venir’). That original movie was directed by Alexandre de La Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte, and has already been remade once for German audiences.
Allan Loeb, who wrote ‘Collateral Beauty’ and ‘Just Go with It’ among others, is at work on an adaptation which would find Broderick and Ruck playing 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.
It’s a heady mix of terminal illness mistakes, old pals bonding and a road trip, so not a million miles away from Ferris and co., though tackling it through a very different lens.
Where else can we see Matthew Broderick?
Matthew Broderick in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ season 3. Photo: Patrick Harbron/Hulu.
While Ferris was far from his first role (Broderick had already appeared in the likes of ‘WarGames’ and ‘Ladyhawke’), it was certainly a big break for him.
He’s since gone on to a lengthy career on screens big and small and stage, finding particular success with the theatre adaptation of Mel Brooks’ ‘The Producers.’
Other notable movies include ‘The Lion King’ (the animated original, where he voiced Simba), ‘The Cable Guy,’ 1996’s take on ‘Godzilla,’‘Election,’‘Deck the Halls’ and more recently, Jennifer Lawrence comedy ‘No Hard Feelings.’
On TV, his recent resume includes appearances on ‘Elsbeth’ and as a heightened version of himself in the third season of ‘Only Murders in the Building.’
Coming up, he has one of the main roles in director Simon Bird’s new comedy drama ‘Pretend I’m Not Here,’ which sees a couple in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II sheltering a Jewish perfume salesman.
What else has Alan Ruck worked on?
Alan Ruck in ‘Succession’ season 3. Photo: Macall B. Polay/ HBO.
Like his co-star, Ruck had been working before ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ but his part as the rich, panicky Cameron Frye certainly helped bring him wider attention.
He went on to appear in movies including ‘Speed,’‘Star Trek: Generations’ (where he played the harried, starstruck captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise-B), ‘Twister,’‘Cheaper by the Dozen,’‘War Machine,’‘Freaky’ and last year’s ‘Crust.’
Yet it can be argued that it’s on TV where Ruck has really shined, with notable roles in ‘Spin City’ and as privileged, misguided older sibling Connor Roy in ‘Succession.’
Ruck has a couple of movies on the way, including ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ and ‘Wind River: Rising.’
When will ‘The Best Is Yet to Come’ be in theaters?
All we know right now on this one is that the two stars are making deals and Turteltaub hopes to have the cameras rolling in the summer.
Lionsgate is in talks to pick up the film, so a release date will likely be set when that contract is signed.
(L to R) Mia Sara, Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
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