"Home Alone" director Chris Columbus nearly helmed another iconic Christmas movie, but he said that a "surreal" pair of meetings with star Chevy ... Vacation," but he and Chase ended up getting ...

How the ‘Home Alone’ Parents Were Able to Afford That Crazy House, Revealed by Director (Exclusive) Chris Columbus, who helmed the Christmas classic and most recently produced ‘Nosferatu ...

but I can't do this movie with Chevy Chase," he recalled telling Hughes, who understood the decision. Jeremiah S. Chechik eventually took over as the director of Christmas Vacation, which was ...

"I called John and I said, 'This is really hard for me, but I can't do this movie with Chevy Chase,'" he recalled. Related: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation turns 35! See where the cast of the ...

"I called John and I said, 'This is really hard for me, but I can't do this movie with Chevy Chase,'" he recalled. Related: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation turns 35! See where the cast of ...

And I called John and I said, ‘This is really hard for me, but I can’t do this movie with Chevy Chase.’” The reason for Columbus’s view was a rather odd interaction with Chase ...

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. He was friends with the movie’s writer, John Hughes, who sent him the script, and he was stoked to join the project, but after a bizarre run in with the film’s ...

The director of Home Alone says he nearly directed another iconic holiday film — National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ... but I can’t do this movie with Chevy Chase.’ ...

Angus Benfield leads the movie about a man working to live up to the Christmas letter of a rival "Christmas is a time for family and friends to bond, being together and being loving and grateful for ...

said he was also supposed to direct 1989’s “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” — but opted out because of the movie’s star, Chevy Chase. “I was signed on … and then I met Chevy ...