Chevy Chase jumps into 'Hot Tub' with John Cusack
Remember all the earlier talk about the new John Cusack movie, The Hot Tub Time Machine? The movie has already started filming in Vancouver, and Cusack will have the added star power of another '80s hero: Chevy Chase.
The script follows a group of guys going through mid-life angst who are catapulted back to 1987 after hopping into their hot tub. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Chase plays "a mysterious repairman who dispenses pearls of wisdom and may or may not be behind the metaphysical road trip."
Sounds a little like Christopher Walken in Click or Don Knotts in Pleasantville. But we have faith that Chase will put his unique turn on the role.
If you can't get enough Chevy Chase, here's more good news: Chase is set to star in NBC's new TV series Community, playing a community college student "carrying more divorces than classes," says THR.
TOP 5 CHEVY CHASE LINES OF THE '80s:
5. "You're rather attractive for a beautiful girl with a great body." (Caddyshack)
4. "Their requests for subsidies was not Paraguayan in and of it is as it were the United States government would never have if the president, our president, had not and as far as I know that's the way it will always be. Is that clear?" (Spies Like Us)
3. "I gotta be crazy! I'm on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose!" (Vacation)
2. "Do you have anything here besides Mexican food?" (The Three Amigos)
1. "You using the whole fist, Doc?" (Fletch)
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Can I borrower your towel? My Car just hit a Water Buffalo.
Posted by: Tom | May 31, 2009 at 12:33 PM
it's been quite a while since i've seen chevy in anything.
Posted by: CHAD | May 31, 2009 at 01:24 AM
cusack revisting his 80s roots in a way? i'm all in.
Posted by: don in tulsa | May 30, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Okay you had me until I discovered that Crispin Glover is in this flick.
Posted by: 80sfan | May 29, 2009 at 07:31 PM
Just be the ball, be the ball, be the ball. You're not being the ball, Danny.
Posted by: Dr. Incognito | May 29, 2009 at 03:47 PM
Moon River...
Posted by: Bassnote | May 29, 2009 at 02:15 PM
Right in the Lumber Yard
Posted by: Ian from Baltimore | May 29, 2009 at 01:14 PM
This could be a good movie. Chevy jumped the shark around the third vacation movie. My problem with Chevy was he went from this cocky, cool, goofy guy, into a stupid, nerdy, over the top goofy guy. I really don't know what triggered the change in his personality. Maybe he can make one of those John Travolta like come backs. Either way I am still a fan.
Posted by: Neil | May 29, 2009 at 12:58 PM
I can't scrub the image of Chevy Chase as a bigoted abusive father on a guest shot on "Law & Order." Plus he has plastic face now.
Posted by: Michelle | May 29, 2009 at 12:03 PM
That`s the first time they work together,right?
This movie can be an absolute disaster,but let`s have faith.
Posted by: Miguel | May 29, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Cusack? Chase? Hot tub? I'm in.
Posted by: Marissa | May 29, 2009 at 11:13 AM