According to Deadline, Kevin Hart has boarded Universal Pictures’ reboot film of The Great Outdoors, a project that will look to maintain the rustic rampages of the original film – scripted by the late, great John Hughes – with its fumbling foibles and comedic interpersonal conflicts between bumbling family patriarchs set in a nature getaway. The film’s would-be star Kevin Hart is also onboard in the capacity of a producer through his Hartbeat Productions company, joined by Michael De Luca is producing of Michael De Luca Productions. The Great Outdoors reboot film is also currently lacking a director to fill the shoes of original helmer Howard Deutsch, a current mainstay of a variety of peak television shows who made his feature directorial debut with a trio of John Hughes-penned pictures in 1986’s Pretty in Pink, 1987’s Some Kind of Wonderful, capped off with 1988’s The Great Outdoors. However, what the Great Outdoors reboot does have right now is a writer in Randall Green, a newcomer with a few projects in the pipeline such as a live-action Scooby-Doo reboot, The Swimsuit Issue and Cartoon Girl. Green will face the tremendous task of doing John Hughes’s script justice. The Great Outdoors reboot has quite a bit of legwork to accomplish – notably nabbing a director and co-headliner – before it starts declaring any significant dates. In the meantime, those unfamiliar with the original classic 1988 film can check out the trailer below!
