The producers at Cobra Kai are resurrecting another ’80s classic with the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off spin-off, Sam and Victor’s Day Off. Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg are giving the film’s two valets, who famously drove off in Cameron’s dad’s cherry-red 1961 Ferrari GT California Spyder, wracked up miles and practically destroyed the car, their own movie.
This is a truly brilliant concept. Just as Cobra Kai did for the cultural institution The Karate Kid, this film could lend even more charm and some nuance to a beloved ’80s flick that has lived in the hearts and minds of so many for decades. Who hasn’t taken their own day off in the name of Ferris Bueller every once in a while? Sam and Victor sure did, and we are about to find out exactly what happened on that fateful day in the cherry-red Ferrari. What sights did they see? Who did they connect with? And more importantly, did they happen to dig down deep and find themselves on that blissful joyride through the city on that beautiful day in 1986?
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Sam and Victor’s Day Off will be produced by Heald, Hurwitz, and Schlossberg’s Counterbalance banner, with Bill Posley set to write. Dina Hillier will executive produce, and Paul Young will also produce through Make Good Content. Associate producers are Stephen Cedars, Benji Kleinman, and Scott Tacyshyn. There are no stars or director attached yet, but Sam and Victor were originally played by Richard Edson and Larry Jenkins, though Jenkins sadly passed away in 2019.
Here is why we can’t wait to see this spin-off!
Why Sam and Victor Need Their Own Movie
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is potentially one of the most iconic movies ever. Certainly of the ’80s, also known as the golden age of coming-of-age movies. Chronicling Ferris’ hard-won day off, which merely cost him some cheap tricks and guilt-tripping to convince his parents he was a very sick boy. However, his bitter sister was never convinced. The movie follows Ferris, his girlfriend Sloan, and his best friend Cameron on their wild ride around town.
They visit a museum, swim in a fancy pool, participate in a parade, and manage to completely destroy Cameron’s dad’s expensive car, which Ferris insists they take to heighten the prestige of their day of freedom. The car drives itself off a cliff while the friends are unsuccessfully attempting to roll back the speedometer after two valets at the city parking garage took it for a joyride of their own.
Sam and Victor’s Day Off poses the question to audiences: what did those valets do all day with the car? While the original film only offers us only a brief glimpse of the guys catching air on a particularly hilly city road, the spin-off will go in-depth into what really happened. Sam and Victor’s Day Off will show viewers exactly what happened that day, what sights were seen, what places were visited, and what breakthroughs were made while Ferris was teaching Cameron how to have a good time. We can assume that there will be some emotional breakthroughs associated with this movie, as it is a spin-off of a John Hughes movie, after all.
Who Are Sam and Victor?
Sam and Victor are, apparently, the underdogs in a story in which they seemed to be no more than a humorous nuisance. A wrench is thrown into an otherwise foolproof plan by everybody’s favorite snarky bad boy to take his friend’s dad’s opulent car out into the world for a day and get away with it. Sam and Victor will themselves make the case that, no, you can’t just do that, not without there being consequences and not without having to share. We will soon find out who these guys are, as they need a day off too, and they are about to have one.
Sam and Victor’s Day Off is just another step on the path of carefully and uproariously deconstructing the myth that only some people’s stories were worth telling. Just like on the hit show Cobra Kai, the lines between good guy and bad guy, and hero and villain, are not clear, and the sides are not so contrasting. Life is a complicated jumble of everybody’s various needs, emotions, and desires. In Sam and Victor’s Day Off, we will learn more about how true that is in a hilarious and insightful adventure.
No release date has yet been announced for this already highly anticipated film, but we eagerly look forward to casting and production development announcements very soon! We are confident that soon we will all be taking a day off of our own to go to the theater and see this movie.
