In early 2002, it was announced that acclaimed writer-director John Hughes would be writing and producing an original family comedy entitled The Grigsbys Go Broke for Revolution Studios, to be distributed by Sony's Columbia Pictures. The story concerns a ridiculously wealthy, mean-spirited family of five that loses all of their money and has no other choice but to move to the other side of the tracks, in a town called Mulletville, during the Christmas season. It was to be Hughes' next project for Revolution after developing Maid in Manhattan for the studio, although on that film, he was only given a story credit under his pseudonym Edmond Dantès. However, no further news would come of the project until after Hughes' tragic passing several years later, when it was revealed that his former go-to studio partner Paramount Pictures had acquired the rights to the script, hiring Ice Age: The Meltdown scribe Jim Hecht to revise it. No doubt Paramount would've also brought Nickelodeon Movies onboard as they're the studio's family film production and distribution label. Alas, nothing came of this version and the film will forever remain unproduced. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"

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