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.
"Well, they can't be [remade] because they can't be made without the permission of [the late] John Hughes, and he didn't want the films to be remade," she said. "And I don't think that they should be really."
Hughes died of a heart attack at 59 in 2009. He wrote and directed a myriad of beloved '80s films, including Sixteen Candles (1984); The Breakfast Club (1985); and Pretty in Pink (1986), all of which Ringwald starred in.
While the actress isn't interested in a direct remake of the 1985 film, she said she wouldn't mind a new "take" on The Breakfast Club's story.
"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," Ringwald noted.
The Run Amok star also shared the former cast members she crosses paths with: "I still see them from time to time. I seem to see Jon Cryer the most, but I love them all. Annie -- I love Annie Potts -- and I see Andrew McCarthy from time to time ... It's hard to believe that it's been 40 years [since Pretty in Pink came out.]"
Ringwald shared a similar during a Breakfast Club reunion at Chicago's C2E2 convention in April 2025. "I personally don't believe in remaking that movie, because I think this movie is very much of its time," she said.
"It resonates with people today, but I believe in making movies that are inspired by other movies, but build on it and represent what's going on today. You know it's very white, this movie. You don't see a lot of different ethnicities; we don't talk about gender, none of that, and I feel like that really doesn't represent our world today," Ringwald added. "So I would like to see movies that are inspired by The Breakfast Club but take it in a different direction."
