Because Larry Lester was pretty hairy, as I recall. At any rate, there's no word on whether he'll be making an appearance in this sequel:
Emilio Estevez has signed on to appear in a sequel to cult John Hughes Brat Pack movie "The Breakfast Club", despite missing out on joining his castmates for a MTV Movie Awards reunion last month due to a family emergency reports Contact Music.
Estevez urges fans of the film not to take his no-show as a sign he's not interested in a planned sequel. He adds, "John's got an idea for a sequel - mature aged students at college, all doing time again - for some reason or another.
"The twist would be that we're all the polar opposites of how we were in the original. Judd Nelson for instance, would now be the straight-laced one. I'm definitely in. If it happens, I'm there."
You idiots already did this. For Nelson and Ally Sheedy it was called St. Elmo's Fire, where we got to see Sheedy morph from Selsun Blue-deprived goth to yuppie bimbo, and Nelson effortlessly make the transition from John Bender's braying scumbag to...Alec Newbary's braying scumbag.
Kirby was really the same character as Andy from TBC, so maybe Estevez could play an adult version of Otto from Repo Man.
Molly Ringwald, meanwhile, didn't have to wait 20 years to play Claire's opposite; she did that in her very next John Hughes movie, Pretty in Pink. And who can forget gasping in awe when they first set eyes on Anthony Michael Hall's newly bulging pecs in Edward Scissorhands?
That this sequel is wholly unnecessary goes without saying, but it makes more sense when you get a whiff of the sickly-sweet funk of desperation in Estevez's last comments. He's "defintely in?" No shit? Did funding fall through for Mighty Ducks 4? Does Judd Nelson have time in his busy schedule to tear himself away from the likes of Santa, Jr. and Cybermutt?
Of the original cast, the only one who doesn't seem to need the work that badly is Hall, which is ironic considering he was the one left behind when the rest went on to college roles and playing cowboys. The Dead Zone is in, what, it's 4th season? Pretty steady work for The Geek.
But go ahead, make your sequel with its delightfully clever skewing of the original's character concepts. After all, it couldn't be any more insufferably maudlin than The Breakfast Club itself was, could it?
If they made it all the way to 'insufferably maudlin', I would be amazed. The only thing worse than watching them wink at the camera and say 'Remember when we made fun of Barry Manilow's wardrobe?' would be if they played it completely seriously.
If this happens, it will be less funny and more uncomfortable to watch than a 'We are the '80s' marathon.
Hmm. I can't recall returning students getting confinement punishment in college, but then I went to a private school.
Hey, perhaps it could be Community Service!
Estevez could've crippled a child while driving drunk, but used his fraternity connections to get off with 200 hours of service.
Nelson could be finishing off the community service part of his insider trading sentence.
Hall could be doing this as part of a judge-ordered "Anger Management" program.
Ringwold could be there for drug rehab.
Paul Gleason could be there as part of a plea-bargain related to punching a student.
And Sheedy could be overseeing the program.
I'd pay to go see "The Community Service Breakfast Club"
how in the world are they going to be believable college students when they're all creeping out of their 40s? that makes no sense to me.
Confession time: Despite being a high school student in the 1980s, I've never actually seen any of the John Hughes......
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The only believable roles for the now-greying and paunchy Brat Pack are as parents dropping their own kids off.
"Breakfast Club: Next Gen"
Maybe they all live in one of those cities where the parents of truant kids have to go to jail. Breakfast Club: Delinquent Parents Edition
In the stunning conclusion we'd find out that Anthony Michael Hall's slutty 14 year old daughter hooked up with Judd Nelson's dorky bookwormish son and is pregnant.
LOL, the fecundity of the minds on this BB is astonishing.....and disturbing.
Man, lay off The Big Chill. Seriously. I loved this movie when it came out. So what if it's kind of ... gay? (It was the 1980s! the whole decade was kind of gay! I mean, Reagan with all that make-up, Miami Vice, Culture Club, Duran Duran. Totally gay. We didn't know any better.)
Anyway, even though I must defend The Breakfast Club, I have to agree that a sequel is a seriously bad idea. What happened in the 1980s should stay in the 1980s.
Man, I need to go to bed, That first sentence should say The Breakfast Club, not The Big Chill. As I was typing it, I must have thought, Hey, remember how they called The Breakfast Club - The Little Chill?
I would love to sit through The Breakfast Club right now. Haven't seen it in years. And I have no desire to see The Big Chill. That movie took itself way too seriously. Great music though.
A. I love the Breakfast Club-- once. If this would ever be made it would NO DOUBT go straight to DVD. And if they were to do a new one it shoul dbe about their kids who have to sit in a cafeteria-- "The Lunch Posse"
B. I didn't know where to add this but there's a show coming out -- for real, not like the Breakfast Club 2-- that I tink you'd really appreciate. It's called "Weeds" on Showtime and basically critiques the suburbs. Its clever tagline "A Comedy About Dealing in the Suburbs" references how its star, Mary Louise Parker, has to sell pot to support her kids, while being a soccer mom and role model simultaneously. Contradictory? Apparently Not. Brilliant? Hell Yea.
www.sho.com-- check it out
thanks!
Cordy
Don't mess with Otto from Repo Man. You might end up glowing in the trunk.
"...the sickly-sweet funk of desperation..." I love it, Pete. Come to think of it, that's what's fueling the sequel fever in Hollywood these days.