Must Read: Vanity Fair Profiles John Hughes
By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2010 11:55 pm EST
David Kamp’s five-page profile is full of interesting information, for example how Hughes came up with the idea for Ferris Bueller one day, pitches it the next, and had the entire script completed seven days later.
Kamp talks with Hughes two sons about the director, why he decided to up and leave Hollywood forever, and more. John and James Hughes claim to have found, so far, “more than 300 pocket notebooks among their father’s effects (some Moleskines, others Smythsons), and these are but a drop in the bucket of what Hughes left behind: archival papers, old correspondence, personal journals, thick binders containing works in progress, and gigabyte upon gigabyte of computer files.” His sons say that in recent years, he worked in a variety of formats: “memoir, short fiction, and, yes, screenplays.” While these screenplays were never meant for public consumption, I wonder if they will ever be made available for reading/learning purposes, or even adapted to the screen.
Did you know that actor Vince Vaughn was one of the few Hollywood friends Hughes had in his last few years?
Here are a few highlighted excerpts from the article:
