By Variety | Created at 2026-08-08 20:21:04 | Updated at 2026-08-08 21:05:36
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“The Breakfast Club” star Anthony Michael Hall said during a recent appearance on “The Rich Eisen Show” that director John Hughes wanted a sequel in which the group of troubled teens reunites as adults.
“It was something that was on his mind, the idea of bringing back the ‘Breakfast Club,’” Hall said. “Like, those five characters reunited somehow later in their life and they’re in the workforce and they’re in their 30s.”
Hall explained that his last conversation with Hughes, who died in 2009 from a heart attack, was in 1988, three years after “The Breakfast Club” hit theaters.
“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 [the sequel] at that time,” Hall added, “So I think that it was something he was playing with. I don’t know if he had written it or not.”
Hall starred as the book-smart Brian Johnson alongside Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy. The mid-’80s classic followed a group of teens from different very backgrounds who became unlikely friends after a day in detention.
Hall also appeared in 1984’s “Sixteen Candles” and 1985’s “Weird Science” for Hughes. Hall recalled that the director approached him about the latter just a few weeks into filming “The Breakfast Club.”
Hall remembered, “He goes, ‘I just came up with another idea for our next film.’ He goes, ‘It’s going to be you and this other kid. You’re going to create a girl in the computer.’ I’m like, ‘What?’”
