THE GREAT OUTLAWS: Dan Aykroyd To Team Up With Howard Deutch For Long Awaited Sequel

Dan Aykroyd Is Planning Sequel To The Great Outdoors

Dan Aykroyd is looking for somebody to replace John Candy as his co-star for a sequel to his 1988 comedy The Great Outdoors called The Great Outlaws.

When The Great Outdoors opened in 1988, it was a modest success earning over $40 million domestically and securing a solid “B+” CinemaScore audience grade. Over the years, the movie has garnered a large following thanks in large part to the charisma of Dan Aykroyd and his co-star in the film, John Candy. Sadly, in 1994, John Candy passed away but, now, Aykroyd plans on re-teaming with director Howard Deutch to make a sequel to the 1988 film. This new one will be called The Great Outlaws. But, there’s a catch: Aykroyd needs to find a partner to make the movie who would replace the incomparable John Candy.

The Great Outdoors was written by the master of teen 1980’s movies, and Home Alone scribe, John Hughes. According to sources, Aykroyd and Deutch are developing a sequel but whether or not the project sees the light of day all depends on whether or not Aykroyd can find a new co-star.

Aykroyd remembered in an interview one time when John Candy picked up Aykroyd and Dave Thomas and put them both on his shoulders and twirled them around. Candy was a great comic actor and it will be hard to fill his shoes but Aykroyd, on his own, has always been a unique comic talent from his work in films such as Trading Places and Ghostbusters to his parts in his later films, Grosse Pointe Blank and War, Inc. Aykroyd will be featured in the new Ghostbusters: Afterlife this month which is a reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise.

Howard Deutch also directed the much adored 1987 teenage movie Some Kind of Wonderful which is notable as one of the best dramatic teen films of the decade and was a “role reversal” of Deutch’s earlier film, Pretty in Pink. In both those films, a love triangle developed between characters and in one, the slightly awkward main female character ended up with the “cool guy” while in the other, two awkward friends find magic in their own relationship, leaving the “cool girl” to be by herself. The Great Outdoors remains one of Deutch’s most entertaining non-teen comedies and was hysterically funny in its own right.

It will be great to see if Deutch and Aykroyd can rekindle the magic from the original 1988 film The Great Outdoors with The Great Outlaws. It may not happen but hey, you never know! If you haven’t seen the original movie, please watch it on Hulu and keep an eye out for the hysterical moments of fun during the end credits!

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