The Real Reason We’re Getting A Ferris Bueller Spin-Off According To Jon Hurwitz

When Variety‘s Jordan Moreau asked the three showrunners whether they would be approaching “Sam and Victor” in the same way they did “Cobra Kai,” Jon Hurwitz answered both in the affirmative and thoroughly. After affirming that all three of them were profoundly shaped by the movies of the ’80s, he elaborated further on this point.

“We love side journeys,” he said. “In ‘Ferris Bueller,’ there’s this great wish fulfillment happening with these two valets, who take this amazing Ferrari on the ultimate joyride.” But Hurwitz also said that, while in the movie we only see the two of them taking the car airborne over a hill in Chicago, their actions — and even their very existence — raise a heap of questions that remain unanswered in the original film.

Hurwitz said that he and Schlossberg and Heald wanted to ask what was going on in Sam and Victor’s lives, particularly contrasted with Ferris’ (Matthew Broderick) privileged, relatively sheltered suburban existence. Following that thread, it appears, provided fuel for originality.

“What may have led to them needing that car, wanting that car and taking it?” Hurwitz asked. “When you begin to unravel all the threads, it sparked a lot of ideas. We’re excited to tell a very different story that takes place in Chicago on that day that’s not trying to retread ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.’”