Even given my situation at the time, where I desperately needed to make a film, I realized I couldn’t work with the guy,” the ...

"Home Alone" director Chris Columbus almost worked on the 1989 holiday classic "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," but ...

Filmmaker Chris Columbus allegedly walked away from one of the biggest Christmas movies of all ... Lampoon's Christmas Vacation." "I was signed on… and then I met Chevy Chase.

Chris Columbus changed his mind about directing ‘Christmas Vacation’ after deciding he couldn’t work with Chevy Chase ...

Reports of Chevy Chase being ... everything except Christmas Vacation. We spent two hours together, and I left the dinner and I thought, 'There’s no way I can make a movie with this guy.' ...

Columbus explained that he had two meetings with the former “SNL” actor before telling the film’s writer and co-producer, ...