The Great Outdoors

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    John Candy classic The Great Outdoors is getting a remake

    Classic John Candy comedy ‘The Great Outdoors’ is getting the remake treatment. Variety reports that it will be comedian Kevin Hart who will be taking on the lead role for Universal, as well as producing the movie. No word yet on co-stars or a director. The original movie was released in 1988, penned by John Hughes and directed by Howard Deutch, who directed other Hughes-written movies ‘Pretty In Pink’ and ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’. It followed Candy’s Chet Ripley as his holiday in Wisconsin is