Molly Ringwald, a famous actress from John Hughes’ 1980s movies, is strongly against direct remakes of classics like The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and Pretty in Pink. She said at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival that the late director John Hughes did not want his movies remade, and they can’t be remade without his permission. Ringwald agrees and says, “I don’t think they should be,” stressing that they are timeless but also fit the times.
Ringwald is against straight remakes, but she does support new stories based on The Breakfast Club that deal with issues that affect today’s youth instead of just copying the original from the 1980s. “I would like it if someone did something that took from ‘The Breakfast Club’ and then built on it to show the problems of this generation,” she told People magazine. This way of doing things would honor Hughes’ legacy, which ended with his death in 2009, without using old ideas.
Ringwald, who is now 57, was amazed that it had been 40 years since Pretty in Pink (1986) and still talks to co-stars like Jon Cryer and Ally Sheedy. Her words are similar to what she said at a 2025 Breakfast Club reunion, where she said that movies that inspire people are better than copies. Now fans who are arguing about 80s remakes know what she thinks after Sundance.
