{"id":2115719,"date":"2025-10-26T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2115719"},"modified":"2025-10-26T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T00:17:08","slug":"one-of-the-most-iconic-80s-movies-was-written-as-a-stage-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/one-of-the-most-iconic-80s-movies-was-written-as-a-stage-play\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Most Iconic ’80s Movies Was Written As A Stage Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve seen John Hughes’s “The Breakfast Club” \u2014 and if you haven’t, you really should because it’s one of those brilliant and ageless ’80s classics<\/a> \u2014 it probably doesn’t catch you by surprise that it was originally written as a stage play. The entire movie takes place in a high school (in a library, corridors, classrooms, and a gymnasium) with the plot of five archetypal high schoolers (the rebel, the nerd, the jock, the outcast, and the popular girl) stuck in detention for an entire day on a Saturday. Initially, writer-director Hughes wrote the teen comedy drama to take place in a single classroom \u2014 a quality that’s palpable from the get-go. It’s likely why it is one of the best character-driven movies about teenagers, but Hughes’ reason for writing it as a play may be different from what you think.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Post (via Yahoo<\/a>), the movie’s producer, Adam Fields, revealed why Hughes originally pitched it to him that way:<\/p>\n

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“John Hughes was a nobody when he sent me that script. 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 did 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.’ I go, ‘No. We’re going to make ‘Sixteen Candles’ and we’re going to make ‘Breakfast Club’ as movies.'”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read more: 12 ’90s Movies You Won’t Believe Are Real<\/a><\/p>\n

Hughes had a gift for depicting teenagers like nobody had before him<\/h2>\n
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