The real chaos was off-camera: cocaine, car crashes, and Belushi vanishing into thin air.
The Stories Behind the Making of The Blues Brothers is an hour- long documentary featuring every participant from the film. Star and co-writer Dan Aykroyd explains how a joke that he and best friend John Belushi shared with friends evolved from a Saturday Night Live skit to a best-selling album and then to a film. Director John Landis covers the difficult production, from the outrageous stunts to Belushi's disappearances from the set.
Production
Landis casually admitting they blew the budget on car destruction.
Acting
Aykroyd's deadpan delivery of utterly unhinged anecdotes.
Director
J.M. Kenny
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aykroyd wrote the first draft of the script on a typewriter in a single night, clocking in at over 300 pages—roughly the length of four standard screenplays.
The documentary reveals that Universal only greenlit the film because of 'Animal House's success, despite having zero confidence in a musical comedy starring two white guys singing soul music.
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