Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald have teamed up with writer Bill Posley and Paramount to create a spin-off of John Hughes’ Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
According to Deadline, the film titled Sam and Victor’s Day Off, will tell the same day adventure of the two valets who took Cameron’s father’s red Ferrari for a pleasure ride.
It’s been 36 years since Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) decided to fake an illness and take the day off of school, much to his sister’s (Jennifer Grey) dismay. Once he successfully convinced his doting parents that he was sick, he made his way to his depressed best friend Cameron’s (Alan Ruck) house in Highland Park, known locally as the Ben Rose House. After some begging, pleading, and straight up manipulation, Ferris was able to convince Cameron to not only go on a Chicago adventure with him, but to borrow his father’s extremely rare 1961 Ferrari 250 Spyder as their mode of transportation.
The car played a key role in breaking Ferris’ girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) out of the suburban Glenbrook North High School with Ferris impersonating her father. From there, the three truant students headed off to the city to engage in shenanigans only after handing the Ferrari over to two relatively sketchy parking valets, who have since been named Sam and Victor, played by Richard Edson and Larry “Flash” Jenkins.
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While Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron assumed the Ferrari was safely tucked away in a parking garage on West Madison Street at Wells Street, the three took a whirlwind tour of the city.
Ferris, Sloane and Cameron visited the Sears Tower, now known as the Skydeck of Willis Tower. Ferris impersonated the sausage king of Chicago at the swanky and fictional “Chez Quis.” The teens also took in a baseball game at Wrigley Field and squeezed in a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Somehow, Ferris made his way onto a float in the annual German-American parade on Dearborn Street much to the delight of Cameron and Sloane. While Ferris was lip syncing Danke Schoen and Twist and Shout to thousands of screaming viewers, the sketchy valets, Sam and Victor were off having their own adventure in Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari. The two managed to have the car back, just in the nick of time.
Cameron noticed that the car had an additional 175 miles on the odometer, which plunged him into a catatonic state in fear of what his father would do when he discovered his son had taken his precious super rare, mint condition car out without his permission and racked up over 100 miles.
Sam and Victor’s Day Off will explore exactly what those valets were doing that day and where they went.
John Hughes has said that Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was his love letter to Chicago. Hopefully Sam and Victor’s Day Off will pay the same love and respect to the city as Hughes did all those years ago.
Paul Young (Key & Peele) is producing through his company, Make Good Content; the company’s executive Devon Young will oversee the project. Stephen Cedars, Benji Kleiman, and Scott Yacyshyn will be associate producers.
Hurwitz, Schlossberg, and Heald are producing under their Counterbalance Entertainment banner with Dina Hillier serving as an executive producer.
