{"id":2260560,"date":"2026-02-01T02:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2260560"},"modified":"2026-02-01T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T02:34:10","slug":"molly-ringwald-says-john-hughes-didnt-want-his-films-to-be-remade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/molly-ringwald-says-john-hughes-didnt-want-his-films-to-be-remade\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Ringwald Says John Hughes\u2019 \u201cDidn\u2019t Want\u201d His Films to Be Remade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000208\/\">Molly Ringwald<\/a> doesn\u2019t want to see any remakes of John Hughes\u2019 movies.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview with People magazine at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088847\/\">The Breakfast Club<\/a> actress was asked her thoughts of a potential remake of a film originally helmed by the late director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, they can\u2019t be [remade] because they can\u2019t be made without the permission of [the late] <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000455\/\">John Hughes<\/a>, and he didn\u2019t want the films to be remade,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think that they should be really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13953296\/\">Hughes<\/a> died of a heart attack at 59 in 2009. He wrote and directed a myriad of beloved \u201980s films, including <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088128\/\">Sixteen Candles<\/a> (1984); <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088847\/\">The Breakfast Club<\/a> (1985); and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091790\/\">Pretty in Pink<\/a> (1986), all of which Ringwald starred in.<\/p>\n<p>While the actress isn\u2019t interested in a direct remake of the 1985 film, she said she wouldn\u2019t mind a new \u201ctake\u201d on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088847\/\">The Breakfast Club<\/a>\u2018s story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like if somebody does something,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molly Ringwald doesn\u2019t want to see any remakes of John Hughes\u2019 movies. During an interview with People magazine at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, The Breakfast Club actress was asked her thoughts of a potential remake of a film originally helmed by the late director. \u201cWell, they can\u2019t be [remade] because they can\u2019t be made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2260561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2260560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Molly-Ringwald-Says-John-Hughes-Didnt-Want-His-Films-to.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260562,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260560\/revisions\/2260562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}