"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.

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.

However, leaving "Christmas Vacation ... Chevy Chase. That was it." Columbus went on to direct "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York," "Mrs. Doubtfire" and a pair of "Harry Potter" blockbuster movies.

And I called John and I said, ‘This is really hard for me, but I can’t do this movie with Chevy Chase.’” The reason for Columbus’s view was a rather odd interaction with Chase ...