Writer and actor Michael Bacall, who worked on the screenplays for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World with Edgar Wright, found footage party flick Project X, and the movie remake of the ’80s TV series 21 Jump Street, has been hired to pen the script for Weird Science for Universal Pictures.

The movie will be a remake of the 1985 comedy of the same name written and directed by the late, great John Hughes, which starred Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith as a couple of nerds who accidentally create the perfect woman using a computer. What they end up with, however, is much more than they ever expected. The original also starred Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, and Robert Downey Jr.

In celebration of the 35th anniversary today of the release of original Star Wars, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes have premiered the film Hughes The Force on their SModcast Internet Television (S.I.T.).

The film, directed, written, and produced by Producer by J.C. Reifenberg, is inspired by Star Wars, as well as all those 1980’s John Hughes movies, like The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. Hughes The Forces revolves around Simon and Henry, two unpopular teens who, in an effort to get into the epic end of the year high school party, must find a hot chick willing to go with them. When that proves difficult, they take matters into their own hands with Simon’s Slave Leia action figure.

Watch the entire film here below, which includes an introduction by Mewes and Reifenberg.

Artist Brian McLachlan decided to create a few comic book covers for some movie favorites, one of which has the characters from the John Hughes film The Breakfast Club drawn up as an Archie comic.

Check out the The Breakfast Club and Archie mash-up here at right (click for larger, full view).

Visit McLachlan’s site at Smooth N Natural to see more comics covers and descriptions for movies like The Warriors, The Goonies, The Princess Bride, Mad Max, and many more.

Here’s what McLachlan said about The Breakfast Club cover…

TMZ is reporting that legendary writer and director John Hughes has died. The report is that Hughes was out for a morning walk in New York while visiting family when he suffered a fatal heart attack. The news has since been confirmed by multiple other top news sources.

John Hughes was not only a staple in popular ’80s cinema, the man was an ’80s cultural icon. His brain was responsible for some of the best comedies and teen angst movies ever created.

While most of his credits came as a writer and a producer, he’s best known for his work behind the camera. His directing resume only contains eight films, but those eight films have made more of an impact in cinematic history than most directors could pull off in 100 movies. Below are the eight films he directed.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Bueller…Bueller…Blu-ray Edition
Directed by John Hughes
Starring Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck
Release date: April 3, 2009

Back in the 1980’s, John Hughes was the king of teen comedies. Anything the writer/director created was basically a license to print money and mostly stood the test of time. One such movie is Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which is released now for the first time on Blu-Ray.

Ferris Bueller follows an atypical day in the life high school senior and “righteous dude” Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick). Deciding early on that the day is too gorgeous to be trapped in school, he fakes a sickness and decides to play hooky. With his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) and his girlfriend Sloan (Mia Sara) by his side, he embarks on the single most exciting cut day ever. He’d better be quick on his toes though, as his sister Jeanie (Jennifer Grey ) and the Dean of Students are on to him and would like nothing but to catch him red-handed.

Now 23-years-old, Ferris Bueller is still the gold-standard when it comes to movies on Senior cut day. I have not seen any made since this movie and there is a reason why. The writing by Hughes is pretty great and while not timeless, is entertaining and realistic to that time period. The movie is quite tame compared to the teen movies that are out in the market now, but I think that is part of its charm. Hughes never insert anything shocking into the script for a laugh but rather write scenes that are funny with dialogue that is funny, a novel concept now in teen movies. The movie also has such a likable lead in Broderick.