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Adam Fields oversaw the production of the iconic 1985 flick and, 40 years later, shared some insight into how the now-cult classic was originally pitched as a play.“John Hughes was a nobody when he sent me that script,” Fields exclusively told The Post at the opening of Tarantino | Pulp Rock at Hollywood Park earlier this month. “He sent it to me as a play, which I don’t know if I really want to talk about that, but it all took place in a classroom, and I said, ‘Why don’t you write a play? We’re in the movie business.'”“He goes, ‘Well, you know, I haven’t really worked with actors before, so I thought a play would be a good idea,” Fields said of Hughes’ response.

Simple Minds first heard “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” — their No. 1 single that would serve as the theme song and teenage anthem of the 1985 Brat Pack classic “The Breakfast Club” — it wasn’t exactly memorable to them.“It sounded a little generic to us,” Jim Kerr, lead singer of the band, told The Post.

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slamming the nickname, saying it was “designed to belittle us.”David Blum of New York Magazine first coined the term Brat Pack in 1985, when he compared a group of then rising stars in their 20s, including Lowe, to the famous Rat Pack. Though the cohort disliked the label, it became popular with fans, and its members are still known by the nickname almost four decades later.During an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Tuesday, Lowe, now 60, explained that he now views the label in a more favorable light.“All of us should feel lucky to have been given a name for what we contributed as actors and that fans still care 40 years later,” Lowe said.

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Let’s Talk Off Camera.”Ripa casually mentioned Moore when she disclosed that their 1986 movie “About Last Night” was one of her all-time favorites. In the film, Lowe and Moore played love interests who boldly decided to move in together after only a few dates.

Brent Lang Executive Editor The Brat Pack may be getting back together. Demi Moore, currently generating Oscar buzz for her daring turn in “The Substance,” revealed that discussions are underway with Sony, the studio behind “St. Elmo’s Fire,” to make a sequel to the seminal 1985 film.

told Variety, in an interview published Thursday. “I understand the curiosity and appreciate it, but I don’t have the same kind of intensity around it. Nobody thinks twice when your kid joins the family plumbing business, or becomes a painter or an architect or a dentist, or becomes a second-generation doctor,” he explained.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor A feature film sequel to the seminal 1985 Brat Pack movie “St. Elmo’s Fire” is in early development, Rob Lowe confirmed in a recent interview. Lowe and his son, John Owen Lowe, talked to “Entertainment Tonight” about their Netflix comedy series “Unstable,” and the actor spoke about the possibility of rebooting “St.

Rob Lowe says that talks about a potential St. Elmo’s Fire sequel are very real.

Rob Lowe has said that he is currently working on the “early stages” of a sequel to his classic ‘80s coming of age film St. Elmo’s Fire.The original film was released in 1985 and is considered one of the key films in the Brat Pack movement.It served as the breakthrough for director Joel Schumacher, and starred Lowe alongside fellow Brat Pack stars Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Andie MacDowell and Andrew McCarthy.And now, Lowe has told Entertainment Tonight that after the success of the recent documentary Brats, which told the story of that generation of actors and films, he is more committed than before to a second St. Elmo’s Fire instalment.“We’ve met with the studio and I have been talking about doing it for about four months,” Lowe said, confirming that Brats had “only added to the excitement around it.”“But it’s very, very, very, very, very early stages,” he added.

during an interview with Entertainment Tonight on July 29.While promoting the second season of his comedic Netflix show “Unstable” with his son and co-star, John Owen Lowe, 29, Rob opened up about the rumored reboot.“We’ve met with the studio, and I have been talking about doing it for about four months,” Rob revealed. “But it’s very, very, very, very, very early stages.

the Brat Pack documentary “Brats,” has revealed that Judd Nelson, 64, originally was enthusiastic about participating before he declined to appear in it. “At the beginning when I am calling everyone up, there’s one moment where I’m saying to someone, “Don’t tell me now … I want to get this all on film,’ and that was Judd I was talking to,” McCarthy revealed on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live.McCarthy, who was himself a member of the Brat Pack, having appeared in “Pretty in Pink” and “St. Elmo’s Fire,” added about Nelson, “When I called Judd up, he was the most excited of anyone … and he just launched in about all the Brat Pack.”McCarthy added, “And that’s when I said to him, which is in the movie, you know, ‘Don’t tell me now.

Hulu documentary “Brats” (now streaming) about the famous Brat Pack has some big omissions. It covers the famous group of ’80s stars, including Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy and Andrew McCarthy — but notably, Anthony Michal Hall and Molly Ringwald don’t appear, and Judd Nelson participates in it only briefly. Hall, 56, broke his silence about why he declined to participate.

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“Pretty in Pink” at the time that it came out.“I didn’t think it was that interesting,” said McCarthy, 61, in an interview with PEOPLE published Saturday. “I didn’t quite get the movie at the time.

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew McCarthy‘s Hulu documentary Brats has brought back memories of the coming of age film where The Brat Pack was coined. Deadline can reveal that Sony is exploring the possibility of making a new version of St. Elmo’s Fire. This version would hinge on reuniting original cast members McCarthy, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Mare Winningham.

Editor’s Note: Journalist David Blum might have forever coined The Brat Pack era, but it was Carl Kurlander who provided the reason the infamous New York article got written. St. Elmo’s Fire was a script Kurlander wrote with director Joel Schumacher, inspired by events in his life. Now an academic, Kurlander has written several guest columns for Deadline including a 35th anniversary remembrance of St. Elmo’s Fire. Why is he tapping again into those memories? He just watched Brats, the Hulu documentary that premiered at Tribeca, directed by and starring Andrew McCarthy. He was part of the St. Elmo’s Fire ensemble that felt maligned by a mag article published the week before the film was released and became a surprise hit. Here, Kurlander supplies some great dish — did you know Demi Moore‘s drug demons almost forced Joel Schumacher to replace her with the young singer Madonna? Or that Georgetown shunned the movie for immoral activity but OK’d The Exorcist because despite the vile goings on involving a possessed child, evil didn’t win? A little of that stuff would have helped McCarthy’s docu, which gets tedious as he attempts to expunge demons, even as cohorts like Moore, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy seem to be humoring him on camera. After all, that film launched fine futures for them, even if the moniker stung. McCarthy paints journo Blum as a villain, but in fairness, The Brat Pack was a far more clever coinage than putting “gate” on the end of every scandal since Watergate. Blum also unwittingly etched into permanent Hollywood history the memory of those actors when they were young and gorgeous. Who wants to be forgotten?

Michael Nordine For viewers of a certain age — or, perhaps more likely at this point, most ages — the term “Brat Pack” evokes nostalgia at its fondest. Movies like “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink” remain rites of passage for teenagers coming of age nearly 40 years later, and few would argue that the 1980s didn’t represent a high-water mark for teen movies.

new Brat Pack documentary on Hulu, Andrew McCarthy, 61, confronted writer David Blum, 68, about how he coined the now-iconic group title in a notorious New York Magazine cover story from 1985.At the time, Blum was doing a piece on Emilio Estevez and joined him on a night out in LA with other actors including Rob Lowe and Judd Nelson. Blum ran the Brat Pack profile that changed the lives of McCarthy, Estevez, Lowe, Nelson, Demi Moore, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy forever.

“Brat Pack” – a collection of popular young actors in the 1980s — have made it clear that they weren’t, and in some cases, still aren’t, fans of the group nickname.The phenomenon started with the 1985 New York magazine cover by David Blum. He had a night out in Los Angeles with Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, and Judd Nelson, and decided to coin the now-iconic phrase which was inspired by the “Rat Pack,” a group of entertainers (including Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin) from the 1940s and 1950s.Estevez, Lowe, Nelson, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy make up the Brat Pack, as they all appeared in the ensemble of classic ‘80s films such as “St.