{"id":134093,"date":"2025-04-17T22:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/the-breakfast-club-should-not-get-a-remake-says-molly-ringwald-its-very-white-we-dont-talk-about-gender-it-doesnt-represent-our-world\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T22:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:52:39","slug":"the-breakfast-club-should-not-get-a-remake-says-molly-ringwald-its-very-white-we-dont-talk-about-gender-it-doesnt-represent-our-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/the-breakfast-club-should-not-get-a-remake-says-molly-ringwald-its-very-white-we-dont-talk-about-gender-it-doesnt-represent-our-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Breakfast Club\u2019 Should Not Get a Remake, Says Molly Ringwald: \u2018It\u2019s Very White\u2026 We Don\u2019t Talk About Gender. It Doesn\u2019t Represent Our World Today\u2019 &#8211; Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy  <a class=\"c-link  lrv-a-unstyle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/author\/zack-sharf\/\" \t\t\t> \tZack Sharf<\/a> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/>Digital News Director<br \/> \t<a  href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/molly-ringwald\/\"  id=\"auto-tag_molly-ringwald\"  data-tag=\"molly-ringwald\"  >Molly Ringwald<\/a> is not in favor of &#8220;<a  href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-breakfast-club\/\"  id=\"auto-tag_the-breakfast-club\"  data-tag=\"the-breakfast-club\"  >The Breakfast Club<\/a>&#8221; getting a remake. Appearing at the C2E2 fan convention in Chicago (via <a  rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/molly-ringwald-reveals-why-she-doesnt-support-breakfast-club-remake-11716633\"  target=\"_blank\"  >People<\/a>), the actor said the 1985 classic is not diverse enough to warrant a straightforward re-do. <br \/> \t&ldquo;I personally don&rsquo;t believe in remaking that movie, because I think this movie is very much of its time,&#8221; Ringwald said. &ldquo;It resonates with people today. I believe in making movies that are inspired by other movies but build on it and represent what&rsquo;s going on today. This is very, you know, it&rsquo;s very white, this movie. You don&rsquo;t see a lot of different ethnicities. We don&rsquo;t talk about gender. None of that. And I feel like that really doesn&rsquo;t represent our world today.&rdquo;  \t<\/p>\n<div class=\"admz\" id=\"adm-inline-article-ad-1\">\n<div class=\"adma boomerang\" data-device=\"Desktop\" data-width=\"300\">\n<div style=\"min-width:50px;min-height:75px;\" \tclass=\"pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text\" \tdata-priority=\"10\" >\n<div id=\"gpt-variety-article-mid-article-uid0\" \t\tclass=\"adw-300 adh-250\" data-is-adhesion-ad=\"\"> \t\t<script type=\"application\/javascript\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tblogherads.adq.push(function () {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tblogherads\n\t\t\t\t\t.defineSlot( 'medrec', 'gpt-variety-article-mid-article-uid0' )\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t.setTargeting( 'pos', [\"mid-article1\",\"mid-articleX\",\"mid\",\"mid-article\"] )\n.setTargeting( 'viewable', 'yes' 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Ringwald appeared on a panel for &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221; with her co-stars Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall, which notably marked <a  href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/breakfast-club-actors-reunite-molly-ringwald-1236368517\/\"  >the first time<\/a> all five actors reunited in 40 years.<br \/> \t&ldquo;I feel very emotional and moved to have us all together,&rdquo; Ringwald said, noting that it was usually Estevez who never made it to previous reunions. &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t have to use the cardboard cutout anymore. I feel really moved that we&rsquo;re all together.&rdquo;<br \/> \t&ldquo;I was really happy when we were making this movie, we all really &hellip; I don&rsquo;t know if you can tell but we all really do love each other,&#8221; Sheedy added. &#8220;It was a dream. A joyful experience.&rdquo;<br \/> \tSpeaking to <em><a  href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/festivals\/the-breakfast-club-30th-anniversary-molly-ringwald-ally-sheedy-interview-1201455515\/\"  >Variety<\/a><\/em> previously, Ringwald said &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221; has endured for decades &#8220;because there are no vampires in it. Any movie with teenagers now has to have a vampire, a zombie or a werewolf. I think that&rsquo;s one of the reasons it has this lasting quality, because they haven&rsquo;t been able to replicate it. It&rsquo;s not for lack of trying. [The studio] gave John an awful lot of freedom for a relatively untested director.&#8221;<br \/> \t\t\tA Variety and iHeartRadio Podcast\t\t<br \/>The Business of Entertainment<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimAFBVV95cUxNVzhYRE5VcTBzOEZ1R1M5cHdRUGNSMVNVei16YlFsTzctOUpPZk9ERlhSQW9uRkxQVnp2RkRxaXJaT3lrdmtMX29xTnVDd2JtUmpua1M0S3Nwak03YjBXdjZQNmdNeUZRdVJjcE5wbG9XSldocGNYbGhqU0pnY0d3SXNHWTVLWEIzNUVMeDRqQURnZVdaLTBrcQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Zack Sharf Digital News Director Molly Ringwald is not in favor of &#8220;The Breakfast Club&#8221; getting a remake. Appearing at the C2E2 fan convention in Chicago (via People), the actor said the 1985 classic is not diverse enough to warrant a straightforward re-do. &ldquo;I personally don&rsquo;t believe in remaking that movie, because I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}