Obviously, this all came to naught. The actors are all in their 50s and 60s now, so discovering where they were a decade or two after they were stuck in that school one weekend is out the door. Between that and the passing of John Hughes, that story couldn’t happen with the original actors. The studio could, of course, do a modern retelling of “The Breakfast Club,” but it couldn’t recapture that time period.
The film is problematic, as Molly Ringwald herself said in a 2018 article she wrote for The New Yorker, right at the height of the #MeToo movement. So were a lot of Hughes’ films, though we didn’t really think about that at the time. Well, some of us did, but people in junior high and high school watched these characters experience what was actually happening in their own schools. It was planted firmly in the experience of teens at the time, something that, as Ringwald recalled, wasn’t common outside of cheesy afterschool specials created by people who seemed to never have spoken to a teen.
That said, the idea that these characters ended up as the opposites of who they were in school could work at the age the actors are now. It would be interesting to see what happened all these years later and how they judged their own behavior. Still, it seems like it’s better left in the past as a touchstone for a generation and a product of its time and its writer/director.