Hollywood moves pretty fast — if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. But hopefully we don’t miss Ferris Bueller’s Day Off stars Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck’s next onscreen reunion, since the actors are currently in talks to collaborate again.
Entertainment Weekly has learned that Broderick and Ruck are negotiating to star in a new comedy film (that also has something to do with a car), The Best Is Yet to Come. According to Deadline, which first reported the news, the remake of the French film of the same name is written by Allan Loeb, directed by Jon Turteltaub, and executive produced by Dimitri Rassam, who produced the 2019 original.
Representatives for Broderick and Ruck did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
If the actors officially sign on for the movie, which is being eyed for a summer production, they’ll play best friends who take a road trip together to find the estranged son of one of them after a colossal misunderstanding creates a ticking clock. During their trip, they’ll also try to do all the things that life has prevented them from doing.
In their first onscreen collaboration in John Hughes’ 1986 classic, Broderick played the titular Ferris Bueller, who concocts an elaborate scheme to skip school. Ruck played Cameron Frye, Ferris’ best friend, who goes along with Ferris’ plans against his will. The day turns disastrous for Cameron after his strict father’s expensive car gets launched through a glass window.
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Alan Ruck and Matthew Broderick in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’
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This wouldn’t be the first time Broderick and Ruck have reunited onscreen after Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The two were good friends before starring in that movie together, since they first costarred in a Broadway production of Biloxi Blues. And it was Broderick who first encouraged Ruck to audition for the movie. They have remained close in the nearly 40 years since then, and appeared onscreen together again in 1998’s Walking to the Waterline.
In 2023, Broderick supported Ruck at the Succession season 4 premiere, and HBO Max shared a photo booth clip of them together at the party with the caption, “Life moves pretty fast.”
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