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Broderick starred in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ 40 years ago this summer
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Matthew Broderick predicted where he thinks Ferris Bueller would be today
Broderick starred as the character in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
He and his Ferris Bueller costar Alan Ruck are reuniting in a new film
Matthew Broderick thinks he knows where Ferris Bueller would be now.
Broderick, 64, spoke to The Guardian in an interview published July 20 about the legacy of 1986’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. In the movie, Broderick played Ferris, a teenage troublemaker who breaks the rules — and the fourth wall. Alan Ruck, who stars in the movie as Ferris’ best friend Cameron Frye, also spoke to the outlet.
Ferris Bueller was written and directed by John Hughes, who had found success in the ‘80s making teen comedies like 1984’s Sixteen Candles and 1985’s The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. Hughes died in 2009 at the age of 59, and Broderick said his death made the idea of doing a sequel impossible.
“When John was alive, I always thought, ‘Maybe we’ll do it again?’ but too much time passed,” he said.
But that leaves open the question of what happened to Ferris in the years since the movie ended, and Broderick thinks the spark that made Ferris such a great movie character probably wouldn’t have served him well for long.
“He’s pretty charming and creative but he probably turned into his dad,” Broderick said. “That’s what most of us do.”
In the movie, Lyman Ward played Ferris’ dad Tom. Tom mostly serves as an obstacle to Ferris playing hooky: he takes a business meeting at the classy restaurant in Chicago that Ferris and his friends are eating at, and then they run into him later while sitting in traffic. Tom is seemingly a high-powered businessman who spends all day making deals.
Ruck also weighed in on where he thinks his character would be now. In the film, Cameron is terrified of his dad, but still lets Ferris convince him to drive his dad’s incredible car, a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder. Ferris even notes that Cameron’s home life is “really twisted,” making him a hypochondriac. Their house, he says, is a “museum,” with big windows where you’re “not allowed to touch anything.”
When, at the end of the day, they return his car with extra mileage on it — and then crash it into the wall of his garage — Cameron decides to stand up for himself, despite his overwhelming fear of his father.
“My joke is that Cameron’s father came home and threw him out the window,” Ruck said. “The rest of that day wasn’t a happy one, but maybe things turned out OK. Maybe now he’s a lawyer in Chicago.”
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off also starred Mia Sara as Ferris’ girlfriend Sloane Peterson, Jennifer Grey as Jeanie, his sister, Cindy Pickett as Ferris’ mom and Jeffrey Jones as the dean of students who tries to prove Ferris is skipping class. Ben Stein also appears in the film as Ferris’ economics teacher.
While skipping school, Ferris, Cameron and Sloane visit the Sears Tower, go to the Art Institute of Chicago, attend a baseball game at Wrigley Field and crash the Von Steuben Day Parade (complete with Ferris hopping on a float and performing a musical number).
When released in June 1986, the movie became a hit, making $70 million.
Broderick told Vanity Fair in 2010 that after Ferris Bueller wrapped, he and Hughes “thought about” a sequel “where he’d be in college or at his first job, and the same kinds of things would happen again.”
But, he said, “Neither of us found a very exciting hook to that. The movie is about a singular time in your life.” Broderick added that he “almost” did another script Hughes wrote after the movie and regrets that it didn’t happen.
Ruck and Broderick are reuniting on-screen again in their upcoming movie The Best Is Yet to Come. Ruck told PEOPLE in March that making the movie was “so easy” and that “it didn’t feel like 40 years had gone by.”
Read the original article on People
