Chevy Chase allegedly treated ‘Christmas Vacation’ director ‘like s–t’ — so he quit
nypost.comVanity Fair in a recent interview. The movie was ultimately directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik. The comedy follows Clark Griswold (Chase), a Chicago man with a wife and kids who wants to have a nice family Christmas, but events soon spiral into chaos.
Johnny Galecki, Juliette Lewis and Beverly D’Angelo co-starred. Columbus explained that he had two meetings with the former “SNL” actor before telling the film’s writer and co-producer, John Hughes, “This is really hard for me, but I can’t do this movie with Chevy Chase.’’ Columbus said that during their first meeting, he sat down with Chase, “just the two of us.” “He had to know I was directing the movie.
I talked about how I saw the movie, how I wanted to make the movie,” Columbus added. “He didn’t say anything. I went through about a half hour of talking.
He didn’t say a word. And then he stops and he says — and this makes no sense to any human being on the planet, but I’m telling you.
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