Looks like Hollywood is beginning to tire of its cannibalization of the sixties and seventies (witness the rehashed Manchurian Candidate, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and countless unnecessary sequels and TV show adaptations) and is ready to move on to the eighties. Don't panic yet. So far a remake of Ferris Bueller's Day Off starring Haley Joel Osment is only a rumor, but there are more solid plans on the table.
Molly Ringwald , poster child for eighties pop-culture moviemaking, is reportedly in talks to make a sequel to Sixteen Candles. In a recent AP article carried by CNN's ShowBuzz Ringwald, who is now 37 years old, indicated that she's been approached for awhile about the idea but hasn't been interested in any potential scripts until now (read: she needs another movie gig). "I've turned it down for years. I couldn't see how it would work," said Ringwald, "Now, it seems right." No word yet on a title. Maybe, Another 16 Candles...42 Candles...Farenheit 218 - The Boiling Point of Frosting?
Also no word on rumored plans to turn The Breakfast Club into a trilogy with the characters reuniting at a psych ward for clinically depressed people suffering hefty mid-life crises (The Lunch Club) and then again in an old folks home when they're all in their, you guessed it, eighties (The Dinner Club). Heaven knows Anthony Michael Hall could use the film work.
