In the original movie, John Candy played a Chicago man who plans a vacation in then woods with his family, only to have the getaway disrupted repeatedly by his boorish, obnoxious in-laws, played by Dan Aykroyd and Annette Bening.
It’s a standard odd-couple comedy, with the mild-mannered Candy playing disgruntled straight man to Aykroyd’s exaggerated lout.
Universal will be backing this new comedy from Kevin Hart, handing the screenwriting duties to Randall Green (the live-action Scooby-Doo, the Showtime series Billions), according to Deadline.
It sells the type of comedy that this was, back in 1988.