Honda has today officially announced that actor Matthew Broderick, star of the 1980's classic film FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, will reprise his movie role for a TV spot to air during NBC's live telecast of this Sunday's Super Bowl. Honda has released an extended version of a previously aired Youtube video of the commerical. In the two-minute preview, Broderick as Bueller, calls in sick to a film shoot in order to enjoy another day of playing hooky. According to Honda's announcement, there will be over two dozen references to the original film throughout the commercial.
Broderick starred in the John Hughes's 1986 film 'Ferris Bueller' opposite Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Alan Ruck and Mia Sara. The actor played a high school teenager who decides to slack off from school in order to have one extraordinary day before going off to college.
The actor will be starring opposite Kelli O'Hara in the upcoming Broadway production of NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, opening this April. The show will be produced by Roger Berlind, Sonia Friedman, Roy Furman and Scott Landis.
Broderick played Eugene Morris Jerome in the Neil Simon Eugene Trilogy including the plays, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. He returned to Broadway as a musical star in the 1990s, most notably with his Tony Award-winning performance in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and his Tony Award-nominated performance in the Mel Brooks' stage version of The Producers in 2001. Broderick reunited with his co-star from The Lion King and The Producers, Nathan Lane, in The Odd Couple, which opened on Broadway in October 2005. He appeared on Broadway as a college professor in the Philanthropist in 2009.
