{"id":14961,"date":"2023-02-10T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14961"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T20:07:53","slug":"colin-hanks-ryan-reynolds-plan-new-documentary-about-late-comedian-john-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14961","title":{"rendered":"Colin Hanks, Ryan Reynolds Plan New Documentary About Late Comedian John Candy"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Documentarians Colin Hanks and Ryan Reynolds are reportedly in talks with Amazon Prime to screen their upcoming film about the late Canadian-born comic actor John Candy. <br \/><br \/>The film, yet untitled, is being produced by Reynolds together with George Dewey\u2019s production company, Maximum Effort. It has the blessing of Candy\u2019s widow and children, and will include home videos and family interviews.<br \/><br \/>Candy, who appeared in such films as <em><strong>Cool Runnings, Home Alone, Spaceballs, Uncle Buck,<\/strong> <\/em>and <em><strong>Planes, Trains and Automobiles<\/strong><\/em>, died of a heart attack at the age of 43 in 1994.<br \/><br \/>When Colin Hanks was but eight years old, his parents Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson had appeared with Candy in the 1985 comedy <em><strong>Volunteers<\/strong><\/em>. Candy and Tom Hanks had also co-starred in <em><strong>Splash<\/strong> <\/em>a year earlier. Paying tribute to Candy in an earlier interview, the elder Hanks called him \u201cone of the great gifts of humankind.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he ever met a person he didn\u2019t have a great conversation with. I don\u2019t think he ever met a person who didn\u2019t feel they were lucky to have been able to chat with John for a while,\u201d said Tom Hanks in a 1999 appearance on <em>Inside the Actors Studio<\/em>. \u201cAnd I must say that the gregariousness that he had was actually born of how big his heart was.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Among Colin Hanks\u2019s other projects have been the <em><strong>Jumanji<\/strong> <\/em>films and FX\u2019s <em><strong>Fargo<\/strong><\/em>, the latter of which won him an Emmy nomination. He also directed ESPN\u2019s <em><strong>30 for 30<\/strong> <\/em>TV series as well as such films as<em><strong> Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis<\/strong> <\/em>and<em><strong> All Things Must Pass<\/strong><\/em>, about the rise and fall of Tower Records.<br \/><br \/>The upcoming documentary will not be the first tribute to Candy. In March 2019 to mark the 25th anniversary of the comedian\u2019s death, Ryan Reynolds released a video montage that he called \u201ca small tribute to a comedic genius and Canadian hero\u2026[who] was a treasure.\u201d<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward&#8217;s articles<\/a>.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentarians Colin Hanks and Ryan Reynolds are reportedly in talks with Amazon Prime to screen their upcoming film about the late Canadian-born comic actor John Candy. The film, yet untitled, is being produced by Reynolds together with George Dewey\u2019s production company, Maximum Effort. It has the blessing of Candy\u2019s widow and children, and will include&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2041,14144,6395,14145,86,14143,14146,511,5138],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colin Hanks, Ryan Reynolds Plan New Documentary About Late Comedian John Candy | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14961\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Colin Hanks, Ryan Reynolds Plan New Documentary About Late Comedian John Candy | Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Documentarians Colin Hanks and Ryan Reynolds are reportedly in talks with Amazon Prime to screen their upcoming film about the late Canadian-born comic actor John Candy. 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