Yeah, of course! You know, I had never seen Some Kind of Wonderful before. Howard Deutch: Oh my gosh, well, did you survive? I just had myself something of a Howard Deutch-athon, since I just watched Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful back to back! The John Hughes 5-Movie Collection is out now on Blu-ray.
Finally, he reflects on his work with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau on Grumpier Old Men and The Odd Couple II, and learning to deal with Matthau's reputation as a "Director Killer."
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He sets the record straight on whether or not Some Kind of Wonderful was penned as a direct response to the changes made to Pretty in Pink's ending, and reflects on what it was like to meet his future wife, Lea Thompson, on a movie set. While promoting the release of the John Hughes 5-Movie Collection, which marks the Blu-ray debut of Some Kind of Wonderful, Howard Deutch spoke to Screen Rant about his work with John Hughes and his subsequent successes as a Hollywood director, a position he explains was never his life's ambition, but something that ended up happening while he was making other plans, as the John Lennon quote goes. Related: Recasting Pretty In Pink (If It Was Made Today) The films boast all-star casts, including Molly Ringwald, Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, James Spader, Elias Koteas, Jon Cryer, Harry Dean Stanton, and Annie Potts. Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful have a thematic connection, as both films feature working-class protagonists who fall for beautiful rich kids while oblivious to the affections of their longtime best friends. Both films, as well as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, She's Having a Baby, and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles are included on the new John Hughes 5-Movie Collection Blu-ray set. The rest, as they say, is history, and Deutch would collaborate with Hughes again on a spiritual successor, Some Kind of Wonderful.
Back in 1986, though, he only had a handful of music video credits under his belt when he was offered his first film: Pretty in Pink, written by the king of 1980s teen cinema, John Hughes. Filmmaker Howard Deutch has spent decades carving his own unique path through Hollywood, directing film and television across a variety of genres.
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