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John and John Families Lodge Complaint Over Uncle Buck TV Show

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One is known for acclaimed comedic roles in films such as Splash, Armed & Dangerous, and Cool Runnings. The other is a director who has titles such as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in his resume.

uncle_buck_pancakeTogether, they could be seen on the same credits roll for movies including Planes Trains & Automobiles, Home Alone, and Uncle Buck. Together, they are known as two of their era’s finest in the movie industry that died too soon. Together, they have… the same first name. And the most recent addition to this list of similarities is that they apparently would have both taken issue with the Uncle Buck TV series remake being produced, according to their families.

The Candy and Hughes families have joined forces to make a plea to ABC to not go ahead with their plans to develop a sitcom on the Uncle Buck name and premise (in which a well-meaning but poorly-performing uncle is left to look after his nieces and nephew), claiming that it is not what its star and director would have wanted to see happen.

The series has so far reached the script order stage with ABC, but the families wish it to go no further, stating their preference that the original is held up as an example of the two John’s collaborative skills.

In a joint statement to Deadline, they noted: “Disappointment has been expressed by both the John Hughes and John Candy families over the conduct and decision by the ABC Network and Universal Television to develop a comedy series based on the feature film Uncle Buck. Rather than either entity providing advance information to the estates, the families learned of the project’s potential via the media. The families feel a strong attachment to the original film, which symbolised the great and unique collaboration between Hughes and Candy. Recalling that the director was displeased with first Uncle Buck TV show effort which failed on CBS in 1990, it is well expected that he would not be supportive of this current attempt.”

While it would be incredibly difficult to match the quality of the original, even in something other than ‘TV sitcom’ form, do writers Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley with producer Will Packer (and whichever lead actor they hire) deserve to be given a chance to try, or are the families of John Hughes and John Candy right in their judgement that a remake at any level of quality would tarnish the Uncle Buck legacy?


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