John Hughes once wrote a screenplay based on The Cure`s `Lovecats` but the project never went anywhere and the whereabouts of the script is now unknown.
Actress Molly Ringwald, who starred in Hughes’ ‘Pretty In Pink’ told Vanity Fair that Hughes wrote the script after she kept playing him, what at the time was the new song for The Cure.“When ‘The Breakfast Club’ ended, he started writing a script called ‘Lovecats,’ because I played him that song by the Cure, ‘The Lovecats.’ I was obsessed by the Cure , still am,” she said in the Vanity Fair interview. “I think Robert Smith is an underrated songwriter. Anyway, I played this song for John, and he started writing a script, and he gave me a mix tape of what the soundtrack was gonna be. Which was pretty much Dave Brubeck, with the last song by Bob Dylan.”
According to Ringwald, Hughes went as far as collecting the ideas for the soundtrack, based in a jazz band.
It is unknown whatever happened to the The Lovecats script. It may exist somewhere lost within the Hughes estate. If found, it would be a Hollywood treasure.
John Hughes died suddenly in New York on August 6, 2009 while out jogging.
Ringwald starred in his movies ‘Sixteen Candles’, ‘The Breakfast Club’ and ‘Pretty In Pink’.
Hughes’s other films included the Home Alone trilogy, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Uncle Buck and Trains, Planes and Automobiles.
