Photos from the Atlanta set of "Vacation" starring Ed Helms and Christina Applegate

The project isn't a remake, exactly. Rather, as Variety notes:

"Helms is starring as Rusty Griswold, the grown-up son of Clark Griswold (portrayed by Chevy Chase in the 1983 film), who takes a family trip similar to the one he took as a boy.

(Leslie) Mann will play Rusty's sister Audrey Griswold, who was played by Dana Barron in the 1983 original.

Skyler Gisondo and Steele Stebbins have been tapped as Rusty Griswold's sons in the reboot and Chris Hemsworth and Charlie Day are in neg otiations to appear.

Chase and

Beverly D’Angelo

, who played Clark Griswold’s wife in the original,

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