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The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd as his brother Elwood, characters developed from the recurring musical sketch "The Blues Brothers" on NBC's variety series Saturday Night Live.
The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, who met and began collaborating as original cast members of Saturday Night Live.
Jun 20, 1980 · Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- John Landis
- 1980-06-20
- Dan Aykroyd wrote the first draft of The Blues Brothers, which was 324 pages long. In his first attempt at writing a screenplay, Dan Aykroyd penned a script that was nearly three times the length of the average screenplay (given that one page usually equals one minute of screen time).
- John Belushi was paid twice as much as Dan Aykroyd for The Blues Brothers. Belushi earned $500,000 for his work in the movie; Aykroyd received $250,000.
- Chicago created its own film office for The Blues Brothers. Most of The Blues Brothers was shot throughout Chicago, which wasn't a major film production hotspot at the time.
- The mall car chase in The Blues Brothers was shot in a real shopping mall. The scene was filmed at the Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois, which had been shuttered in 1979—before filming commenced.
Jun 20, 2020 · Released on June 20, 1980 and featuring the first big-screen appearance of characters from Saturday Night Live, The Blues Brothers was the culmination of Dan Aykroyd 's life-long quest to...
The Blues Brothers act evolved beyond the Las Vegas show rooms and together with his stage partner Wayne Catania (Jake) they starred in the Blues Brothers Revival, a musical written by Victor Pisano and staged in Chicago in 2004.
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Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
