Whereas Molly Ringwald acknowledges that her 1985 movie The Breakfast Membership continues to resonate with audiences, she says it is not numerous sufficient to warrant a remake.
Throughout a panel titled “Don’t You Neglect About Me: The Breakfast Membership 40th Anniversary Reunion,” on the C2E2 popular culture conference in Chicago on Saturday, April 12, Ringwald mentioned: “I personally don’t imagine in remaking that film, as a result of I feel this film could be very a lot of its time.”
The actress, now 56, continued: “It resonates with folks right now. I imagine in making motion pictures which can be impressed by different motion pictures however construct on it and signify what’s occurring right now. That is very, you recognize, it’s very white, this film. You don’t see loads of completely different ethnicities. We don’t speak about gender. None of that. And I really feel like that basically doesn’t signify our world right now.”
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Ringwald added that she’d “wish to see motion pictures which can be impressed by The Breakfast Membership, however take it in a special path.”
The Breakfast Membership facilities on 5 youngsters from completely different social worlds — a princess (Ringwald), a basket case (Ally Sheedy), an athlete (Emilio Estevez), a brainiac (Anthony Michael Corridor) and a prison (Judd Nelson) — compelled to spend a Saturday collectively in detention.
The panel occasion in Chicago noticed the 5 stars reunite in public for the primary time for the reason that movie’s debut 40 years in the past.
“I really feel very emotional and moved to have us all collectively,” Ringwald mentioned in the course of the occasion.
Throughout one other current forged meetup, at MegaCon Orlando on Feb. 7, Ringwald mentioned the attraction of the film for her was that she obtained to take pleasure in a special highschool expertise from her personal.
“At any time when I obtained to do a film, I obtained to go away my faculty, and that was superb,” the actress mentioned. Nevertheless, the half didn’t completely get her out of college: Ringwald and Corridor attended lessons on set, she mentioned in the course of the panel. “We might go do a scene within the library after which research algebra with our studio trainer. However it was enjoyable.”
Through the Orlando occasion, the actors mentioned that regardless of fan hopes for a sequel, one other movie was not within the foreseeable future, out of respect for the late John Hughes, who directed the basic and several other different movies of that point.
“It was one thing that was conjured and thought of,” Corridor shared, referencing one among his final conversations with the movie’s director. And whereas he and his costars have been enthused concerning the concept, they agreed they would not do it with out Hughes on the helm.
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In an interview with U.Ok. outlet The Times in 2024, Ringwald mentioned that she has seen some parts of the movie that “have not aged properly” when she’s rewatched it extra just lately.
“There’s a lot that I actually love concerning the film, however there are parts that haven’t aged properly — like Nelson’s character, John Bender, who primarily sexually harasses my character,” Ringwald mentioned on the time.
She added, “I’m glad we’re ready to have a look at that and say issues are really completely different now.”
