The Hollywood Reporter says a script by late filmmaker John Hughes is generating interest in Hollywood and may be developed for a posthumous production.

Hughes directed several landmark films in the 1980s, including Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and The Breakfast Club. He was also a writer and producer, and was behind the Home Alone movies and 101 Dalmations. He died in August 2009 of a heart attack and was the subject of a touching tribute, given by the stars of his movies, at the 82nd Academy Awards.

Hughes retired from public life in 1994, but continued to write and The Hollywood Reporter says that, after his death, family members found piles of unpublished and unproduced material. The screenplay in question is titled Grisbys Go Broke and it reportedly follows a wealthy Chicago family that loses everything and is forced to move to the suburbs.

There was a report on Friday that Paramount, which has a long history with Hughes, was picking it up with plans to turn it into a family comedy but the studio later refuted the report and told THR that it is not negotiating to purchase. The implication, however, seems to be that someone is still expected to pick it up.

The last feature Hughes wrote was Paramount’s 2008 Owen Wilson comedy Drillbit Taylor. It began as a Hughes original but was rewritten by Seth Rogen and Kristofor Brown. Hughes’ story credit appears under the pseudonym Edmond Dantes, the name he also used for 2002’s Maid in Manhattan.

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