Molly Ringwald needs followers to overlook a couple of remake of “The Breakfast Club.”
The actress, 57, dismissed the potential for remaking the 1985 teen comedy-drama about 5 highschool college students in detention throughout the “Don’t You Forget About Me: The Breakfast Club 40th Anniversary Reunion” panel on the C2E2 popular culture conference in Chicago on Saturday.
“I personally don’t believe in remaking that movie, because I think this movie is very much of its time,” stated Ringwald, who performed well-liked lady Claire Standish.
“It resonates with people today,” she continued. “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.”
“So I would like to see movies that are inspired by ‘The Breakfast Club’ but take it in a different direction,” Ringwald added.
Anthony Michael Corridor, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson additionally took half within the panel to have a good time 40 years for the reason that John Hughes-directed movie got here out.
Estevez, 62, joined in on the dialogue of remaking “The Breakfast Club.”
“Movies today are concept driven, they’re not character driven, and the beauty of John is that he focused on characters first,” he stated concerning the director who died in 2009.
“And when you think about trying to pitch this movie today, it’s about five kids sitting in a library, all day in detention, and then 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?’” Estevez continued.
“It’s also important to remember that we made this movie for $1 million, which at the time was still a lot of money but by Universal standards was not; it was not thought of as a big, giant tentpole film as they make today,” Estevez added. “So there was a lot of risk involved, but by today’s standards, this movie I don’t think would ever get made.”
Ringwald instructed The Occasions final 12 months that sure components of the beloved film “haven’t aged well,” together with her on-screen dynamic with Nelson, 65.
“There is a lot that I really love about the movie but there are elements that haven’t aged well — like Judd Nelson’s character, John Bender, who essentially sexually harasses my character,” Ringwald stated.
She added: “I’m glad we’re able to look at that and say things are truly different now.”
Ringwald equally known as out Bender’s problematic habits and the truth that him and Claire kiss on the finish of the movie in a 2018 essay for The New Yorker.
“He never apologizes for any of it, but, nevertheless, he gets the girl in the end,” she wrote.
