'Sam And Victor’s Day Off,' A 'Ferris Bueller's' Spin-Off About The Ferrari Joyride Dudes Is Coming

“You’ve guys got nothing to worry about; I’m a professional.” OK, this is weird, and it’s only coming to me now. On August 7, 2008, I casually pitched and proposed a spin-off film idea in a blog article titled, The Brief Cameo That Begat An Entire Film: Our Take ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’, back in the day when I regularly just blathered about random things rather than strictly wrote news. The idea was based on Judd Apatow’s confession: what if Brad Pitt’s brief stoner character from “True Romance,” got his own movie and that became “Pineapple Express.” This inspired my idea: take the two guys from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” who joyride in Cameron’s dad Ferrari while Ferris in the gang is at a baseball game. And well, 14 years later and they are making that exact same movie, wild.

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Deadline reports that “Sam and Victor’s Day Off,” a “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” based on the exact same premise, is being made by “Cobra Kai” creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald. Bill Posley, who wrote “Bitch Ass”), is set to write the film for Paramount Pictures.

In the Matthew Broderick-starring film, Ferris Bueller (Broderick), convinces his uptight best friend Cameron Frye (Alan Ruck), to cut school and in that process he convinces Frye to take his dad’s precious Ferrari out for the day, picking up Bueller’s girlfriend Mia Sara (Sloane Parker) along for good measure.

At one point in the day, they go see a Chicago Cubs game and the nervous Frye is once again manipulated into leaving the car in a parking garage. The car is left with two shifty-looking parking valet attendants,  Richard Edston from Jim Jarmusch‘s “Stranger Than Paradise” and the late Larry Flash Jenkins .

Of course they take the Ferrari for a 3-plus hour-something joy ride during the ball game returning the very second the game is over and the gang is picking up the car, the comedic results of their brief moments in the film are rather hysterical (hence my pitch).

What did they get up to during those hours with the car? That’s a question that always haunted me, the possibilities seemed endless. “Sam and Victor’s Day Off” will evidently “follow the same-day adventure of the titular valets who took the Ferrari on a joy ride in the Matthew Broderick-starrer.”

Great minds think alike? 😀

Obviouslty they’d want to recast a younger generation of roustabouts. Larry “Flash” Jenkins passed away too early at the age of 63 in 2019. Richard Edson, a former drummer for Sonic Youth (!!) is 68, still kicking and they ought to give him at least a cameo, right?