Molly Ringwald Says John Hughes Didn't Want His Movies Remade and She Agrees

John Hughes wrote some of the most beloved and quintessential 80s movies, including Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Weird Science, The Great Outdoors, Uncle Buck, Curly Sue, the Vacation movies, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Home Alone, Mr. Mom, Some Kind of Wonderful, and more, many of which he directed. He left a legacy of giving a voice to the teens of the time, and giving us some lasting favorite films that we still enjoy and pass on to the next generation today.

One star of several of those films is Molly Ringwald, whose career took off thanks to Hughes, and she remembers him fondly since his passing in 2009. Ringwald made an appearance at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where she was asked about the possibility of Hughes’ films getting remade. The actress told People:

“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. And I don’t think that they should be really.”

She went on to entertain the idea that she could be open to new interpretations of the stories at the center of the iconic films. The actor noted that of all Hughes’ films, the most relevant likely remains the 1985 cult-classic The Breakfast Club. 

“I feel like if somebody does something, I would prefer that they do something … that takes from ‘[The] 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 also mentioned she still sees her former castmates 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 premiered],” she said. 

I grew up on those movies, and they absolutely painted a picture of the time. Some held up well, and some, not so much. I wouldn’t mind seeing an updated Breakfast Club, with teens facing updated issues, or Sixteen Candles for that matter.

There’s so much in that movie that we know now is just simply wrong, yet it was endearing and sweet. I’d love to be able to watch that story play out through a more conscious lens. But I guess that decision is up to the John Hughes estate.

via: Variety