Molly Ringwald doesn’t want to see any remakes of John Hughes‘ movies.
During an interview with People magazine at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, The Breakfast Club actress was asked her thoughts of a potential remake of a film originally helmed by the late director.
“Well, they can’t be [remade] because they can’t be made without the permission of [the late] John Hughes, and he didn’t want the films to be remade,” she said. “And I don’t think that they should be really.”
Hughes died of a heart attack at 59 in 2009. He wrote and directed a myriad of beloved ’80s films, including Sixteen Candles (1984); The Breakfast Club (1985); and Pretty in Pink (1986), all of which Ringwald starred in.
While the actress isn’t interested in a direct remake of the 1985 film, she said she wouldn’t mind a new “take” on The Breakfast Club‘s story.
“I feel like if somebody does something, I would prefer that they do something … that takes from Breakfast Club and then builds on [it], and represents this generation’s issues rather than to try to recreate what was of a different time,” Ringwald noted.
The Run Amok star also shared the former cast members she crosses paths with: “I still see them from time to time. I seem to see Jon Cryer the most, but I love them all. Annie — I love Annie Potts — and I see Andrew McCarthy from time to time … It’s hard to believe that it’s been 40 years [since Pretty in Pink came out.]”
Ringwald shared a similar during a Breakfast Club reunion at Chicago’s C2E2 convention in April 2025. “I personally don’t believe in remaking that movie, because I think this movie is very much of its time,” she said.
“It resonates with people today, but I believe in making movies that are inspired by other movies, but build on it and represent what’s going on today. 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,” Ringwald added. “So I would like to see movies that are inspired by The Breakfast Club but take it in a different direction.”
