Before its release, ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ was somehow both a sure thing and a big risk. 35 years later, it’s not only a holiday perennial but one of the most beloved comedies of the ’80s. Its cast and crew look back on how it all came together:
was not Hughes and Candy’s first collaboration—Candy had appeared inwhich Hughes wrote and Harold Ramis directed, in 1983. Candy had not initially been cast; he was brought in when the film’s original ending, in which Clark Griswold goes to Roy Walley’s house wielding a gun and demanding entertainment, was scrapped.I preferred the original and still do, but the rewrite gave me an introduction to John Candy. :I thought Steve Martin was the funniest man alive.
Paramount had greenlighted the picture, but with a catch: They wanted it in theaters by Thanksgiving, which only gave Hughes nine months to shoot, cut, and complete the picture, a process that typically took a year or more. And that wasn’t the only ticking clock.John Hughes:at the end of December, the 19th of December. And we started this picture on the third of March. It’s very difficult to edit, preview, and score a film in two months, while prepping another film.
But it didn’t snow, and they kept holding Evans for his one scene—at $1,000 a day—as the company moved from Buffalo to Ohio to St. Louis to Illinois, taking him along for the ride to each new location.I don’t remember, it was 11 cities total. Ended up, I’m pretty sure, we finally shot the scene in Kankakee, Illinois, on my 51st day. So I left home not having $300 in rent. And when I went back home, having done my one line in the movie, we bought our first house.
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