Anthony Michael Hall heard John Hughes’ idea for a potential “Breakfast Club” sequel before the director’s death.
Hall shared on “The Rich Eisen Show” Wednesday that his final phone call with Hughes — who died in 2009 at age 59 — was about making a follow-up to the 1985 coming-of-age classic.
“You know what’s crazy? The last time I spoke to Mr. Hughes, he called me with John Candy on the phone, and it was about 1988, and we just hung out on the phone for a couple hours, and he talked about it at that time,” Hall, 58, recalled.
Hall said Hughes’ plan for the sequel involved the five main characters — played by Hall, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald — reuniting as 30-year-olds in the workforce.
“I mean, it’s a long time ago,” Hall noted. “So I think that it was something he was playing with. I don’t know if he had written it or not.”
“The Breakfast Club” is about five high school students— awkward nerd Brian Johnston (Hall), jock Andrew Clark (Estevez), shy loner Allison Reynolds (Sheedy), popular girl Claire Standish (Ringwald) and rebellious delinquent John Bender (Nelson) — who end up in detention together.
The film, which Hughes directed, wrote and co-produced with Ned Tanen, grossed over $51 million and remains a cult classic.
Back in 2015, Ringwald, 58, told the Daily Beast that “somebody told” her there was a script for a sequel.
“One day, all that stuff will come out,” she said.
On “The Rich Eisen Show,” Hall remembered how “prolific” Hughes was when they worked together.
“Even when we were doing ‘Breakfast Club,’ he came to me about a couple weeks in,” Hall explained. “He goes, ‘I just came up with another idea for our next film.’ He goes, ‘It’s going to be you and this other kid. You’re going to create a girl in the computer.’ I’m like, ‘What?’”
That film eventually became 1985’s “Weird Science,” which Hall starred in with Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton and Robert Downey Jr.
Hall added, “He wrote an entire act of ‘Weird Science’ after we had wrapped the night before. So, he was just incredibly prolific.”
Hughes was famous for masterminding other ’80s films including “Sixteen Candles,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and “Pretty in Pink.”
He suffered a fatal heart attack while walking on West 55th Street in New York City in August 2009.
His final movie as a director was 1991’s “Curly Sue.”
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