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The Blues Brothers (1980)
The road to making The Blues Brothers was as dramatic as the Bluesmobile's journey through the film. Universal wanted to capitalize on John Belushi's fame by making a musical action comedy based on his and Dan Aykroyd's Blues Brothers characters from "Saturday Night Live." But as legend has it, production became its own animal house, with new screenwriter Aykroyd taking six months to deliver a long script that director John Landis had to rewrite before filming. Then filming began without a final budget in place. Delays, along with the car destructions on screen (a record, at the time, 103 cars) and other complications, put the film $10 million over budget, which is a lot since the final budget was $27.5 million (around $80 million today). But the film lives on as a quotable cult classic, and IMDb users rated it 7.9.
The road to making The Blues Brothers was as dramatic as the Bluesmobile's journey through the film. Universal wanted to capitalize on John Belushi's fame by making a musical action comedy based on his and Dan Aykroyd's Blues Brothers characters from "Saturday Night Live." But as legend has it, production became its own animal house, with new screenwriter Aykroyd taking six months to deliver a long script that director John Landis had to rewrite before filming. Then filming began without a final budget in place. Delays, along with the car destructions on screen (a record, at the time, 103 cars) and other complications, put the film $10 million over budget, which is a lot since the final budget was $27.5 million (around $80 million today). But the film lives on as a quotable cult classic, and IMDb users rated it 7.9.