Legendary American film writer and director John Hughes has died of a heart attack aged 59, his spokesman has announced. Hughes was responsible for some of the biggest films of the 1980s including Pretty In Pink, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and the Home Alone films. Over the past decade, Hughes withdrew from Hollywood and became a farmer in Illinois. Hughes continued to write films, including Maid In Manhattan and Drillbit Taylor but worked under the pseudonym of Edmund Dantes. "I was a fan of both his work and a fan of him as a person. The world has lost not only a quintessential filmmaker, whose influence will be felt for generations, but a great and decent man," Macaulay Culkin, star of Home Alone, said. Ferris Bueller star Matthew Broderick added, “I am truly shocked and saddened by the news about my old friend John Hughes. He was a wonderful, very talented guy and my heart goes out to his family.”
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