Chevy Chase Talks ‘Vacation’ And ‘Fletch’ Reboots

Being a child of the 80’s, where I grew up on movies like this in my teen years, I couldn’t help but to take a look and share this bit of potential news in the next couple of years. The folks at Collider managed to spend some time with Chevy Chase while on the set of Community and he was pretty forthcoming about things related to some of his bigger movies from years gone by with Vacation and Fletch. While I’ll easily say that Fletch didn’t do much for me, the Vacation movies are ones that I pull out every so often or catch on TV and just have to sit down and watch and enjoy, especially the older one gets and the more in a family way you get. With talk of Fletch rebooting every so often with different names attached, it’s no surprise that Chase has some views on it as well as what he wants to do with Vacation.

Collider: There’s been a lot of talk about a reboot of Vacation at New Line. Have they approached you to appear?

Chase: Actually I think it went back to Warners. I think New Line sold it to Warners. I don’t know what’s gonna happen with that. It’s the same thing with Fletch, I think they had Fletch and then they sold that to Warners too. So we’ll see. I mean look, I’m not gonna do Fletch unless I’m Fletch, if they start writing something for a kid who’s Fletch and I’m just helping out, “Bye.” I mean, there’s no reason why, at my age, I can’t still be Fletch. I’ve always been getting this impression that they’d like me to be mentoring a younger Fletch type thing. No, what am I James Coburn on a Western? No. Nothing against James Coburn, he’s great. Is he alive? Yeah I think he is. I think he’s very much alive. And Vacation, actually Beverly D’Angelo and I have been working on our own script, which is pretty dang funny. I’ve written an idea that would be basically like a “Swiss Family Griswold.” There’s a cruise, there’s a fire on the ship, we think the whole ship’s on fire and we jump—it’s just a little fire—and we end up on an island where we meet Randy somewhere who’s been left there from an old Survivor series. I like that idea. It’s hard to sell these things to the Warners people. It depends on who’s there and what their mood is and what they think people are gonna like.

[Source: Collider]

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