"Home Alone" director Chris Columbus almost worked on the 1989 holiday classic "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," but ...

Director Chris Columbus, best known for the “Home Alone,” Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Harry Potter” movies ... Vacation” — but opted out because of the movie’s star, Chevy Chase.

The director of Home Alone says he nearly directed another iconic holiday film — National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation — but ...

The director ended up telling Hughes, “This is really hard for me, but I can’t do this movie with Chevy Chase.’” ...

I talked about how I saw the movie ... Chase and Hughes but that, “I was basically nonexistent.” He explained, “It was Chevy and Hughes, and they talked about everything except Christmas ...

Director Chris Columbus claims he quit working on “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation ... I met Chevy Chase,” Columbus recalled, while discussing the hit 1989 holiday movie.

Vacation." The Chevy Chase comedy ranks as the No. 1 Christmas ... It measured viewership of Christmas movies on network and streaming TV from November 1 to December 10 and found that Christmas ...

Filmmaker Chris Columbus allegedly walked away from one of the biggest Christmas movies of all ... Lampoon's Christmas Vacation." "I was signed on… and then I met Chevy Chase.