Molly Ringwald Doesn't Think Hollywood Should Try Remaking John Hughes Movies
Molly Ringwald doesn’t think it would be a good idea to try remaking any John Hughes movie.
The actress worked with the iconic director on several of his films, notably Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles.
While at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, Molly spoke with People about John‘s movies, saying she doesn’t think it would right to remake them.
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“Well, they can’t be [remade] because they can’t be made without the permission of John Hughes, and he didn’t want the films to be remade,” she said, adding, “And I don’t think that they should be really.”
Out of all of them, though, Molly said that she thinks The Breakfast Club would be the best to build on to represent modern issues rather than trying to recreate it exactly.
“I feel like if somebody does something, I would prefer that they do something … that takes from Breakfast Club and then builds on [it], and represents this generation’s issues rather than to try to recreate what was of a different time,” she shared.
John passed away in 2009 at the age of 59.