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Rusty Griswold’s Vacation Confirmed!

By Rodney - February 11, 2010 - 09:54 America/Montreal

More than a decade after the last film, we are finally getting to see the Griswold’s back on the big screen. And just as speculated, this will be a passing of the torch to the next generation as Rusty Griswold - now grown up with a family of his own - will venture across the country in his own Family Vacation.

Empire Reports:

The studio has hired writing team Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley to write a new Vacation flick, which will focus on Rusty Griswold, the son of Chevy Chase’s heroic buffoon, Clark W. Griswold.

Now all grown up, Rusty decides to follow in his father’s footsteps and take his family on a trip to Walley World – the same quest that preoccupied Clark in the original, Harold Ramis-directed Vacation, back in 1983.

We heard that this was the plan, but now it is official. The return of the Cruiser Wagon for the Homeaway ads and cameos of an older Chevy Chase and Beverly DiAngelo playing the Griswold ‘rents were hinting towards this revival.

While some sites are calling this a reboot, its more accurately another sequel. Canon has always been loose in this unlucky family’s vacation planning, but it always works out in the end.

I hope this has that same crude humour the originals shared. And with Wedding Crashers’s director David Dobkin producing this next generation, I think it just might.

I would like to see a return of an old Rusty as in the four previous films he was never once played by the same actor. Anthony Michael Hall, Jason Lively, Johnny Galecki and Ethan Embry all filled the Rusty role.

I love Galecki, but I would rather see Anthony Michael Hall reprise his role to carry this torch to WalleyWorld!!