Thirty years after its release in theaters, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” will finally have an official soundtrack available for purchase, Salon reported on Monday.
“The track list is not yet finalized,” but as early as September, an official soundtrack be released thanks to an agreement between Paramount Pictures and La-La Land Records, a company “which specializes in movie soundtracks and scores.”
Earlier this month, Salon explained that the original decision to not release an official soundtrack was a conscious one on the part of director John Huges.
“They begged me to put one out,” Salon quoted Hughes from a 1999 interview, “But I thought…’would kids want Dankeschoen” and ’Oh Yeah,’ on the same record?”
“Hughes was in a position to say no” to record executives in 1986, Salon explained, with the director was “at the height of his power” given his string of successes prior to the comedy about three suburban Chicago teens.
While he directed just eight movies, Mr. Hughes’s influence in Hollywood was chiefly as a writer, with 47 writing credits to his name according to the Internet Movie Database, including “Home Alone” and “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” Mr. Hughes died at the age of 59 in 2009.
• Ken Shepherd can be reached at kshepherd@washingtontimes.com.
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