The John Candy and John Hughes Movie That Never Got Made

As the recent documentary John Candy: I Like Me reminds us, John Candy was often wonderful onscreen. But he was never better than when he was teamed with director John Hughes . Together, the duo created all-time classics such as Uncle Buck , Planes, Trains and Automobiles , and Only the Lonely .

Had things worked out differently, Candy and Hughes were set to collaborate on another movie, one with a third, very unlikely collaborator: Sylvester Stallone . Bartholomew vs. Neff was to star Stallone as a retired baseball player who gets into a feud with his neighbor, a corporate lawyer played by John Candy. As it was written by Hughes, the film would have taken place in Chicago, and was slated to start filming in the summer of 1991.

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