Movie Monday: The Breakfast Club reunion we didn’t even know we needed

One of my favorite movies from the ’80s: The Breakfast Club

They just don’t make movies like that anymore….literally. According to the cast, they probably won’t make them like that anymore either.

Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall sat down together for the first time in 40 years at the Chicago Comic over the weekend and were asked: Could this same movie be made in 2025?

Emilio Estevez took that question: “Movies today are concept-driven, they’re not character-driven, and the beauty of John [Hughes] is that he focused on characters first. And when you think about trying to pitch this movie today — it’s about five kids sitting in a library all day in detention — the studio executives would march you right out the door and say where are the monsters? Where’s the car chases? Where are the big effects?”

They also shared some behind-the-scenes casting that could have been different than what we saw in the movie:
“From my understanding, John Cusack was going to play Bender and Joan Cusack was going to play Allison. I don’t know who was going to play the other parts,” Molly Ringwald shared. She said she took a look at the script for the Allison character but she wanted to play Claire instead because that character was less like her.

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