John Hughes wiki: Facts you need to know about John Hughes and his fims

John Wilden Hughes Jr. or professionally known as John Hughes was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer who is famous for directing successful comedy films like National Lampoon, Mr. Mom, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and more.

Recently Molly Ringwald who is famous for her lead roles in John Hughes’s films has explained the complicated legacy of Hughes in the #MeToo Era. Today, in this particular column we will let you people know about John Hughes’s five interesting facts. Check it out:

1.John Hughes fired a guy over PIZZA

A Spy article published back in 1993, Hughes shares his difficulty to work with and deal with several situations. Hughes claimed that he fired a prop supervisor on Curly Sue because of taking innumerable of pizza eating scene. He ran out of the cheese pizza and later had to substitute sausage. Funny, right?

2.The License plates in Sixteen Candles’ have hidden messages

Hughes is always famous for presenting everything perfectly and cleverly. Do you remember Jake’s car in Sixteen Candle? Remember a plate reading 12850. The number actually is 2/18/1980 which is John Hughes’s birthday.

Remember Samantha’s grandparents’ car with a license plate V58? The V58 means “Vacation 58”. It’s a short story of Hughes that inspired National Lampoon’s Vacation.

3.John Hughes used to put cue cars on John Candy’s Head

We often hear that the actor forget their dialogues. So, it looks like Hughes was the one to work it in smoothly. While the filming of Uncle Buck, Macaulay Culin interrogates as Buck, the dialogue of the script was written on the index cards and was placed on John Candy’s head so that he could get his lines off quickly. Isn’t it a smart way for someone who has a problem with memory?

4.John Hughes’s First Screenplay was A Jaws Parody

 Back in the late 1970s, while Hughes was on his debut in Hollywood and was on the way into the comedy role, publisher Matty Simmons gave him a chance and welcomed him into the comedy world. During that time, National Lampoon was the one to come in the spotlight.

The publisher of that page; Matty Simmons gave him his first Hollywood break. He was hired to write Jaws 3, People 0, and an aborted spoof of the killer shark films.

5.John Hughes wrote The Breakfast Club in just two days

We all know that Hughes was one of the notoriously fast writers who has marked his writing pace in the comedy field. He has left us dozens of unproduced movies after his death. While Hughes was in his productive peak, he wrote a whole screenplay in a weekend. Isn’t it interesting?