A future Hughes movie made a cameo-along with Kevin Bacon.Įlton John and lyricist Gary Osborne were almost finished writing the theme song for Planes, Trains and Automobiles when Paramount insisted on ownership of the recording master, which John’s record company would not allow. Its overuse of the word f*ck is also apparently what pushed the movie 's rating from PG-13 to R. That sweary tirade between Martin and McClurg is reportedly one of the scenes that made Martin want to make the movie. ![]() Martin and McClurg's F-bomb-filled exchange earned Planes, Trains and Automobiles an R rating. When McClurg explained she just got it from her own life just like he does with his scripts, he said, “Oh yeah!” She claims people to this day ask her to tell them they’re f*cked. When she finished, Hughes asked her how she came up with those details so quickly. That’s when she came up with the stuff about needing roasted marshmallows and taking care of the crescent rolls because she can’t cook. Then Hughes told her to improvise talking on the phone about Thanksgiving. For the first few takes, McClurg simply raised her finger and had a standard phone conversation with a customer. Louis car rental employee upon whom Neal dropped 18 F-bombs. McClurg-who is probably best known as Grace, Principal Rooney’s secretary in Ferris Bueller’ s Day Off-played the St. Edie McClurg’s improvisations impressed Hughes. He went on to appear, credited, on ER for the show’s final five seasons as Frank Martin, and later spent nearly 60 episodes playing Detective Barrel Johnson on Bosch. It’s very possible this was Troy Evans, who was uncredited, as the shy truck driver in the movie. Hughes chose to keep him on standby as the production faced delays, and the actor ended up working enough days while the crew waited for the snow to come that he was able to make a down payment on a house. In John Hughes: A Life in Film, Kirk Honeycutt wrote that one actor, who played a truck driver, was only supposed to have a single line in the movie that would require just one day of work. ![]() A series of production delays were beneficial to one actor. “As we would shoot, we were hopping planes, trains, and automobiles, trying to find snow,” he said. Martin claimed that the cast and crew pretty much lived the plot of the movie. Some exterior scenes were filmed in Buffalo, New York. The entire movie was supposed to be shot in Chicago, but there wasn’t enough snow. Martin said Candy “never went near any of it once.” 6. On the first day of shooting, the crew brought in treadmills, weights, and other exercise equipment for Candy to use in his hotel suite. ![]() John Candy arrived with lots of exercise equipment in tow. Hughes then proceeded to perform the entire movie for him. As the two grew more comfortable with one another during their meeting, Rosefelt asked what the movie was about, as he only knew the title and that Martin and Candy were starring in it. Though he didn’t get the job, Rosefelt later wrote about the experience on his blog, saying it was strange but admirable that Hughes did not allow Rosefelt to see the script to the movie beforehand. Reid Rosefelt met with Hughes to interview for the unit publicist position on Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Hughes acted out the entire script to a publicist hoping to work on the movie. Martin later claimed that the first cut of Planes, Trains and Automobiles was four-and-a-half hours long. When Martin asked Hughes where he thought they might cut scenes, Hughes was confused by the question. The comedian, who had written his own screenplays, thought the 145-page length of the script was a lot for a comedy. Steve Martin thought the script was too long. Deutch directed Hughes’s script for 1988’s The Great Outdoors (also starring Candy) instead. But Hughes decided to direct the film himself once Martin signed on. And he was going to direct Planes, Trains and Automobiles, too. ![]() Howard Deutch directed some of Hughes’s most beloved screenplays, including Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful. Experiencing such a hellish trip might explain how Hughes managed to write the first 60 pages of Planes, Trains and Automobiles in just six hours. The plane he eventually boarded ended up being diverted to Denver. A snowstorm in Chicago the next day continued the delays. Winter winds forced all flights to Chicago to be canceled that night, so he stayed in a hotel. presentation scheduled in New York City on a Wednesday, and planned to return home on a 5 p.m. Before he became a filmmaker, Hughes worked as a copywriter for the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago.
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