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Now back in the directorвЂ™s chair, Deutch put his own stamp on the film by recasting a few of the parts, including Lea Thompson as Amanda.

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Paramount president Ned Tannen apologized to Coolidge, and paid her full salary. Then he said that they would be making the film, but not with me.вЂќД«oth MacLachlan and Delaney also got the axe, and Stoltz was on the chopping block-Coolidge noted how Stoltz had just experienced something similar with his short-lived time as Marty McFly on the set of Back to the Future-but the studio insisted on keeping him.

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Michael was in tears when I got there вЂ¦ I thought maybe Eric had died and the movie was off. The walk to the next building felt like I was walking a gang plank. No one said anything to me, but I could feel that something was wrong.

When I came in on Monday morning I got a call to come over to see Michael, JohnвЂ™s partner and producer. John decided in a gesture of friendship to make the studio give the movie to Howard to direct. вЂњI didnвЂ™t know it,вЂќ she continued, вЂњbut on the weekend prior to our shoot, John and Howard met and made up. вЂ¦ I had Eric get long extensions and make his hair a darker red to give him some darkness and mystery. Deutch has understandably downplayed the drama, but Coolidge told her version of the story in 2011: вЂњI actually had a great time with John, rehearsing and getting the film ready to go. Then, four days before cameras rolled, Coolidge was fired, and вЂњcreative differencesвЂќ were cited. Instead, Hughes hired Valley Girl and Real Genius director Martha Coolidge, who helped further develop the script and cast Eric Stoltz as the artsy mechanic Keith, Mary Stuart Masterson as his вЂњDrummer GirlвЂќ best friend Watts, All My ChildrenвЂ™s Kim Delaney as Amanda Jones (the apple of KeithвЂ™s eye), and Kyle MacLachlan as AmandaвЂ™s rich douchebag boyfriend, Hardy. He suggested as much to Hughes-and showed up on the Paramount lot the next morning to find a padlock on his office. Deutch had trouble casting the film, and a chance encounter with Brian DePalma on an airplane convinced him that was a sign he should kill the film. remix of Pretty in Pink-where this time the best friends do end up together. The cinematic teen whisperer, who essentially had an auteur deal at Paramount, asked Deutch to direct his L.A. It was in production concurrently with Planes and SheвЂ™s Having a Baby, both directed by Hughes.

Wonderful came during the busiest streak for the Hughes Entertainment empire. So when theyвЂ™re in L.A., itвЂ™s never really because of L.A.-except Some Kind of Wonderful.вЂќ вЂњAll JohnвЂ™s scripts really are meant to be in Chicago. In reality, Molly Ringwald lives on the wrong side of the Gold Line tracks in South Pasadena, and she attends John Marshall High School in Los Feliz. If youвЂ™re like me, you remember Pink as another essential Chicago movie-but in fact none of it was shot there. It was directed by Howard Deutch, who also directed the hit Pretty in Pink in 1986. ThereвЂ™s only one Hughes teen film that fully embraced Los Angeles as its setting: Some Kind of Wonderful, which made its Blu-ray debut in a new five-movie set late last month. But the exterior of the restaurant, when they walk in and do the Abe Froman and get a table and have lunch and allвЂ¦ thatвЂ™s LвЂ™Orangerie on La Cienega.вЂќ When they go to the really nice restaurant, the exterior where they do the car highjinks with the father, thatвЂ™s in front of Chez Paul in Chicago.

вЂњBut then all of our sets were built in L.A. at that time was, we would go back to Chicago and we would shoot all the exteriors and generally we had a little bit of cover in terms of practical locations,вЂќ says Bill Brown, HughesвЂ™ regular producer and second unit director. But FerrisвЂ™s house is actually in Long Beach, and the majority of that film-along with Pretty in Pink Planes, Trains & Automobiles SheвЂ™s Having a Baby В and Some Kind of Wonderful-was shot in L.A., where Hughes lived during most of his вЂ™80s heyday. They are, and Hughes did fly back to Chicago to shoot several iconic scenes-like the downtown glee spree in Ferris BuellerвЂ™s Day Off, for example. That canвЂ™t be right, youвЂ™re thinking theyвЂ™re all love letters to Chicago. YouвЂ™ve probably never thought about it, but pretty much all of the 1980s John Hughes movies were shot in Southern California.