Sadly, "The Lunch Club" — or whatever it might've been called — never went beyond small talk. Maybe that's a good thing. However, Hall went on to tease something he has in the pipeline, and it sounds like the closest we're going to get to a "Breakfast Club" follow-up. Coincidentally, there's some connective tissue with "Cobra Kai."
"I produced a film this past summer called 'The Class' and it's not a remake of 'The Breakfast Club,' but it's sort of a reimagining," said Hall. "It's a writer-director named Nick Celozzi. He wrote a really great script. And so, in this new version we have, it's funny you mentioned 'Cobra Kai.' We have Hannah Kepple from 'Cobra Kai' in it and Charlie Gillespie, who has a show called 'Julie and the Phantoms' on Netflix and then Lyric Ross from 'This Is Us.' So this time it's six kids instead of five and Debbie Gibson and I are the two teachers. So I play the assistant principal but there's shades of Paul Gleason there from the original and then Debbie plays their drama teacher."
It may not be the sequel some are hoping for, but most of the core ingredients are there: an original Brat Pack star playing a role? Check. High school setting? Check. Angsty teen characters? Check. Hall went on to explain the show's setup, and while there's no sign of a Saturday detention hall as the key backdrop, it sounds like these six teens are all facing a common dilemma together.
"The last thing I'll give you is that it opens with her giving them a test — they've all failed her class previously," Hall teased. "So they have to do an improv and basically come into class and present a character to the rest of the students, and so it unfolds from there. And I have to tell you, the script is so good because the stakes for all the kids individually are much sharper. They're very keeping with modern day situations and stresses and things that people deal with. So it was a really interesting project. So okay, it's not a remake but it's an updated sort of 'Breakfast Club' for a new generation."
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