Ferris Bueller’s Day Off spin-off movie ‘cancelled’

The Ferris Bueller’s Day Off spin-off movie Sam and Victor’s Day Off has reportedly been cancelled.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the offshoot to director John Hughes’ 1986 teen comedy classic has been scrapped at Paramount Pictures following the studio’s merger with Skydance Media.

As well as Sam and Victor’s Day Off, the Miles Teller-starring romance film Winter Games and director Colin Trevorrow’s Area 51 movie have also been shelved.

Announced back in 2022, Sam and Victor’s Day Off would have followed the “same-day adventures of the titular valets who took the Ferrari on a joy ride” in the original film.

The joyriding valets were originally portrayed by Richard Edson and Larry ‘Flash’ Jenkins, but the pair were not given names when making Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

While a director for Sam and Victor’s Day Off was never announced, Cobra Kai’s Bill Posley was attached to write the script.

The film would have been produced by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Neald, while Dina Hillier was due to serve as executive producer.

In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) skips school and convinces his anxious best friend Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck) and girlfriend Sloane Peterson (Mia Sara) to join him on an unforgettable day of mischief in Chicago.

As the trio tries to stay one step ahead of suspicious adults, Ferris helps Cameron confront his fears and embrace a little freedom.

The flick also featured Jennifer Grey as Jeanie Bueller, Jeffrey Jones as Ed Rooney, Cindy Pickett as Katie Bueller and Charlie Sheen as Garth Volbeck.

Following the critical and commercial success of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, talk of a sequel began to circulate, with Broderick and Hughes working on concepts that would have followed Ferris in college or at his first job - though neither idea took off.

According to WhatCulture, the 63-year-old actor said: “Ferris Bueller is about the week before you leave school, it's about the end of school - in some way, it doesn't have a sequel. It's a little moment and it's a lightning flash in your life.

“I mean, you could try to repeat it in college or something but it's a time that you don't keep. So that's partly why I think we couldn't think of another.”

While Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has become a comedy classic, Broderick admitted he nearly turned the movie down.

He explained: “I thought [the script] was great, and I had a teeny hesitation because having just done [the plays] Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues.

“I was like, ‘Wow, I'm talking to the audience, just like in these plays’ … and even in [the 1985 movie] Ladyhawke he talks to the camera a bit. You know, when you're young or starting out you think, I have to do something different.

“My memory is, before I had hung up the phone, my agent was like behind me in the room, saying, ‘Yes, you should do it.’

“He flew to New York. ‘I’ll see you tomorrow. Let's just not talk about it anymore now, I'll see you tomorrow,’ and he came and was suddenly in the room with me, saying, ‘Yeah, I do think you should do it.’”