Before his early death last year, John Hughes' output in the previous decade or so had been sporadic at best. After 1991's misfire, Curly Sue, Hughes turned his back on directing and for the remainder of his career popped up as an executive producer or, occasionally, writer on films such as Maid in Manhattan and Mr Woodstock.
Apparently following his death, Hughes' family found a number of unproduced screenplays and treatments in his home, and it is one of these, Grisbys Go Broke, that Paramount Pictures is reportedly circling, at least according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Little is known about the script, other than it is a comedy centring on a rich family who are forced to move to the suburbs after suffering a financial catastrophe.
Whilst this certainly seems like the sort of high concept idea that fuelled many of Hughe's eighties classics, there seems something slightly distasteful about cashing in on the writer-director's death, particularly with a screenplay that he presumable did not feel was strong enough to submit for production when he was alive.
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