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Alliance Films has picked up the rights to Don't You Forget About Me, which looks at the life and work of the Home Alone writer. The project's title is a nod to the Simple Minds hit, which features in a famous scene in Hughes's classic 1985 teen drama The Breakfast Club.
Instead of a traditional biopic, the movie follows Kari Hollend, Matt Austin-Sadowski and Lenny Panzer embarking on a road trip to meet Hughes.
The documentary was made without public funding and features interviews with Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Mia Sara and Kelly LeBrock.
Austin-Sadowski, whose acting credits include the Power Rangers: S.P.D. TV series, claimed that Hughes's movies inspired him during "an awkward adolescence".
"He took affairs of the heart very seriously, and no other director gave teenagers that sort of treatment at that time," he told Variety.
Hughes, who worked on movies such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, passed away last week, aged 59.
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