Why The Hell Hasn't The Breakfast Club Been Remade Yet
 

I think the concept is doable in this and age (especially in this day and age).

Before anybody bitches about the chastity of their childhoods just know I find the original to be one my favorite movies ever and it is timeless as it is. Everybody ever would do well to watch it. I do not wish for a replacement, merely an update of sorts.

Having said that I think a new movie would be cool. Extra points if it involves the kids of the originals.

There were talks of a sequel but the director really couldn't think of a reason why to put them all together in the same room again. I think that's what the story was.

I don't think this movie should be remade or add a sequel or anything. It's perfect the way it is.

It's perfect regardless but I'd be interested in a contemporary take.

I think the movie holds up just fine (as most John Hughes movies do) and there aren't any current actors I would like to see in this. That isn't to say I don't think it will eventually happen.

Then take some LSD and watch it again.

Saw it this morning.

Because it was stupid then and would be stupid now.

O wow

Unreal movie.

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I'm curious about what you think the contemporary take would be. Cyber-bullying and text fights? The problems and roles the teenagers represent among the youth are pretty timeless and always relevant

While the Breakfast Club all the major types at the time, a modern take could include modern sub-types of teens. They're a spoiled lot these days, but they seriously face things our parents never did. Some of the hot topics in the movie were parents, sex, and weed - things changed since then. And while the subject manner still resonates, it would be topical to tell the story in a modern way. Text fights? How about sexting (it could be a reason one of them is 'doing time'). Cyber bullying isn't widespread enough to be relevant, but social network drama is - and I can see a few scenes off that alone.

The means are different, but the ends are the same. The details of how they represent those archetypes is really not what makes that movie great. It's the fact that they all face those universal issues.

If this movie gets remade, legend is getting punched in the face.

Kalyx. You need to shut the fuck up with this shit.

For the record, if I had been a teen in the mid-80's, I would have had a thing for Molly Ringwald. The red hair gets me every time.

Anyways, Hollywood should grow a pair and come up with some original films.

The Breakfast Club 3D

Bite your tongue, triaD. Besides, it's not like there's major uber-cash to be made out of it so the only real reason it would be remade is just for the sake of remaking it. I didn't get a chance to see this film until I was, like, 14 or so and the message and themes of the movie weren't lost on me. Anyone can watch it now and still grasp what it was trying to do. That's what makes great movies great. People don't need an update when the original is right there. And that's the key word: original. All of these remade films are based on someone's ORIGINAL work. They weren't updates. They weren't the product of someone saying, "Hey, let's have a contemporary take on this". Like I said, it would just be remaking for the sake of it. Hollywood needs to get its head out of its ass and start making the classics for tomorrow.

Nah, won't shut up about it.

Because we don't need remakes of every film ever

Unknowns all. But William Defoe has to be that teacher.

Did M-A-G just return to post about the Breakfast Club?

I seem to remember that everyone was saying that Charlie Bartlett was so much like Ferris Bueller but honestly I didnt see it like that, although I thought it was decent but nowhere near as good as Ferris. and I am 100% surprised they never did a sequel, especially since Matthew Broderick wanted to do one..I figured the movie would make itself..Ferris and Sloane are married and have a kid and the kid does the same things he did in the original.

Because it would be a stupid idea.

Which I think WILL eventually happen.

This is pretty dumb. Nothing about ruining my childhood, but there's little point in remaking the movie.

I wouldn't call it a return. More like a cameo.

Hah, that'd actually be pretty awesome.

"That's another detention! You want another one?!?!? You know what? F*ck this!" *PUMPKIN BOMB*

I hate remakes.

Remakes aren't always bad. But there's little they could do to this one without significantly dating it from the start. I mean, I can think of a few reasons to do a new version of a movie:

1. Capabilities for visual effects not available. Doesn't apply to the Breakfast Club.
2. A significantly new spin on the material. Well, the movie already has a pretty broad basis. Noid, I mean...Kal's only idea seems to be to take a broad base and move on to sub-genres, which doesn't spin it so much as narrow it.
3. bringing it to a new audience. That could be a commercial thing too, but I was thinking of exposure. That seems to be what Kal's after, except it's either going to be an "in name only" remake or it's not going to resonate with the kinds of people it would aim for.

Tim Burton to remake "The Breakfast Club" with Johnny Depp as John Bender

I hate remakes of movies that are basically the original and add nothing new. (Karate Kid)

When they add something new people bitch about their childhoods.

How about adding something new without remaking something old?

I wish John Hughes added something new to a contemporary update of Rebel Without A Cause instead of writing original screenplays like The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off

I saw that the Coen Brothers were remaking True Grit (due out this December). Jeff Bridges is Rooster Cogburn and Matt Damon is the guy that Glenn Campbell played. I think John Wayne might have to come back from the dead and start beating the shit out of people for this.

Nothing's stopping writer's from making new shit. That isn't a 'Hollywood' problem.

Hollywood buys the scripts and given the current climate they're more likely to hire a scriptwriter to rework a proven property than to take a chance on a new property. So yes, it is.

And the proven properties are safer because...?

Because they are proven to have a reputable name with a lot of built in interest. Are you familiar with the concept of brand names and franchises at all?
Plus the studios already have their franchises locked up and only need to hire a screenwriter(s) to do their bidding

I just wish you wouldn't throw out opinions for the sake of having them without having some understanding of how the film industry (particularly shopping a script to studios) works.

Yes, I do - I was proving a point.

It isn't a Hollywood problem, it's a consumer problem. If people valued new, original works than we wouldn't wait 4 years for the Inceptions and Splices. Hollywood is an amoral machine, it does what can feed it. We feed it.

I promise if more people felt rehashes and sequels were boring Hollywood would adjust accordingly.

Take this back, as a courtesy.