The team behind last year’s Ferris Fest, which celebrated the 30th anniversary of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, will return June 22-25 with an even bigger follow-up event. The Shermer Club: A John Hughes Fest will honor writer-director’s John Hughes’s 1980s teen movies with exclusive film screenings, a luxury bus tour to filming locations in and around Chicago, and expansive re-creations of classic scenes from those films—culminating in a full reenactment of the wedding scene from Sixteen Candles.
According to Blanchard, the full wedding scene from Sixteen Candles will be staged at the Glencoe Union Church—”the actual location where it was filmed, and exactly as it was blocked and performed in the movie,” he says. He got the idea to bring in actors to re-create the scenes on-location from other events he had attended in the past; but while those events usually involved “a look-alike actor in costume that would pop up [to] say ‘Hi’ to fans and pose for photos,” he explains, “I wanted to incorporate actors who would stay completely in character at several locations where a movie was filmed and perform an entire scene from that movie.”
