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Chris Columbus Quit ‘Christmas Vacation’ Because ‘I Couldn’t Work With’ Chevy Chase

Chris Columbus, the director behind 'Home Alone' and 'Gremlins,' shared a not-so-merry holiday recollection involving comedian Chevy Chase.

Speaking to Vanity Fair for a recent interview, Columbus said John Hughes had sent him the script for 1989’s Christmas Vacation, starring Chase. Just a week after, the script for Home Alone would land on his lap, which Columbus said “for me, was even more personal, a better script.” The 1990 comedy film written by Hughes and starring Macaulay Culkin as the mischievous Kevin McCallister would go on to be a blockbuster hit, and become a beloved Christmas classic leading to several sequels. Although Columbus considered responding, he took his wife’s advice to “stay out of it.” The director added, “I’m not going to get in a fight over Home Alone.

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