Paramount was the studio behind many of Hughes' movies, including "Pretty in Pink," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and, umm, "Drillbit Taylor." He didn't direct that last one, but the Owen Wilson comedy was originally written by Hughes under the pseudonym Edmond Dantes. And it remains his final movie credit, unless the somewhat timely "Grisbys" is actually ever made.

Last week there was a rumor going around the web that Paramount was going to do the movie with Roth Films ("Alice in Wonderland") producing. But there's no truth in it, according to the studio.

Could another studio take it on? Universal, which made Hughes' "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Uncle Buck" and "Weird Science," as well as the Hughes-scripted "Beethoven"? Or how about Warner Bros., which is also moving ahead on another installment of the "Vacation" franchise that Hughes originated?

Like many deceased artists, Hughes left behind a lot of unfinished and unproduced work that will in all likelihood see light at some point. Some are in the possession of the filmmaker's family. Others, like "Grisbys" have been at studios or production companies for years. And as is always the case in these posthumous release situations, there is the debate on whether or not it's okay for such exploitation to occur.

However, Hughes' legacy is different from, say, a solo music artist or novelist, because he regularly sold his scripts to studios and had little other involvement in them, such as the case with latter-career works "Maid in Manhattan" and "Drillbit." And anyway, it's only a matter of time before we get remakes of Hughes' early classics ... in 3-D, no doubt.

What do you think? Should someone make "Grisby's Go Broke" and/or any of John Hughes' other unproduced films?