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Anthony Michael Hall said John Hughes teased a sequel to The Breakfast Club in their last conversation together.
The 1985 comedy-drama film follows five students from different high school cliques, Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald), Brian Johnson (Hall), John Bender (Judd Nelson), Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy), and Andrew Clark (Emilio Estevez), who are forced to spend Saturday in detention together.
And Hall, 58, said Hughes – who suffered a fatal heart attack in August 2009 at the age of 59 – teased the idea of the characters reconnecting as working adults, during their final phone call in 1988.
On the latest episode of The Rich Eisen Show, the actor shared: “The last time I spoke to Mr. Hughes, he called me with John Candy on the phone, and it was about 1988, and we just hung out on the phone for a couple hours, and he talked about it at that time.
“It was something that was on his mind – the idea of bringing back The Breakfast Club. Like those five characters reunited somehow later in their life and they’re in the workforce and they’re in their 30s. I mean, it’s a long time ago.”
Hall added: “So, I think that it was something he was playing with. I don’t know if he had written it or not, but he just was so prolific.”
In April 2025, Ringwald said she is against a remake of The Breakfast Club.
Per People, Molly explained to attendees at the C2E2 fan convention in Chicago: “I personally don’t believe in remaking that movie, because I think this movie is very much of its time. It resonates with people today. I believe in making movies that are inspired by other movies but build on it and represent what’s going on today.
“This is very, you know, it’s very white, this movie. You don’t see a lot of different ethnicities. We don’t talk about gender. None of that. And I feel like that really doesn’t represent our world today.
“I’d like to see movies that are inspired by The Breakfast Club, but take it in a different direction.”
Ringwald, who also starred in Hughes’ romcoms Sixteen Candles (1984) and Pretty in Pink (1986), said he never wanted his classics to be remade.
She told People: “Well, they can’t be [remade] because they can’t be made without the permission of [the late] John Hughes, and he didn’t want the films to be remade. And I don’t think that they should be really.
“I feel like if somebody does something, I would prefer that they do something … that takes from [The] Breakfast Club and then builds on [it], and represents this generation’s issues rather than to try to recreate what was of a different time.”
