Well, it had to happen at some point. New Line have announced that they’re developing a new entry in the “Vacation” series. The project, to be produced and, possibly, directed by David Dobkin (“Wedding Crashers”), will focus on Rusty Griswold, the character variously played by Anthony Michael Hall, Johnny Galecki and Ethan Embry in earlier entries in the series, who is now grown and has a family of his own. The intention is that original Griswold parents, Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo, would reappear as grandparents, making it, as Empire pointed out, both a sequel and a reboot – the comedy version of J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek.”
Personally, we have no real attachment to the series, but it seems like the studio are going about this in the right way – they’re looking “to make a movie that skews more towards “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” or “Little Miss Sunshine” than “RV” or “Are We There Yet?”” Plus, Chevy Chase is killing it for the first time in twenty years in the brilliant sitcom “Community” (seriously, if you haven’t seen it yet, it’s the funniest half hour on air at the moment), so the timing’s pretty good.