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Dream Casting: If They Have to Remake The Breakfast Club

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Seriously Random Lists | February 10, 2009 | Comments (53)


It seems like, almost as long as movie blogs have existed, there have been fears that the John Hughes’ classic The Breakfast Club would be remade. The threat level is currently at orange — all the studios want to do it, but none of them have the balls to risk seeing their studio lots torched to the ground. But the powers that be are inching ever closer. Just last fall, JCPenney’s fired a test missile with a Breakfast Club-inspired back-to-school commercial played on a loop in movie theaters across the nation. It made me sick:

Last year, an unofficial remake also began production. Bumped is the working title of a movie about five twentysomethings who get bumped from a flight at Chicago O’Hare and get to know one another. Lizzy Weiss, who scripted Blue Crush is set to direct. Cover your hair-trigger gag reflexes, folks.

Still, there haven’t been any official confirmations that The Breakfast Club will be remade. Yet. But it’ll happen, folks. As long as Hollywood isn’t submerged into the ocean (fingers crossed!), it’ll happen. And if it has to happen, allow us to do the casting, if you please. Let us put a decent face on a terrible idea.

Here’s my Breakfast Club dream cast:

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Andrew Clark (originally played by Emilio Estevez): Jocks don’t hold the esteem they once did in high school, fortunately. Their popularity is a relic of the 80s. Now: 17-year-old dipster douchebags rule the high school hierarchy. Shia LaBeouf is perfect — he’s both a decent actor and a raging twatwaffle. And besides, can you think of anyone better?

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Brian Johnson (originally played by Anthony Michael Hall): Jonah Hill. Look: Johnson never hooks up with anyone in the end. He’s just the school dork. Michael Cera or Christopher Mintz-Plasse may be the obvious choice, but we don’t necessarily need a stuttering dork, and Hill could bring a refreshing dose of sarcasm and humor to the role.


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John Bender (originally played by Judd Nelson): Yeah, he’s 28, but that doesn’t stop him from playing a teenager on TV (Judd Nelson was 26 when he played Bender). And really: There’s only one guy around who could do the Bender role justice: Taylor Kitsch, people. He’s been playing a variation of the wounded tough guy for three years now, so why not?

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Claire Standish (originally played by Molly Ringwald): Amanda Seyfried, of course. Good actress, pretty, likable (and did the popular thing in “Veronica Mars” and Mean Girls), and a very good romantic counterpart for Kitsch.

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Allison Reynolds (originally played by Ally Sheedy): Ummm. Olivia Thirlby, obviously. She’s radiant, but she could definitely pull off the goth girl, and I could totally see her shaking dandruff out of her hair.


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Richard Vernon (originally played by Paul Gleason): Richard Jenkins. Why not? Great character actor, capable of pulling off a comedy, and he just has a high-school principal vibe about him. Plus, the Breakfast Club adverts could boast an Oscar nominee.


Now, with that said, should a Breakfast Club remake actually come to fruition in the next couple of years, here is the more obvious direction they’ll take:

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Andrew Clark (originally played by Emilio Estevez): Zac Efron.

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Brian Johnson (originally played by Anthony Michael Hall): Drake Bell.

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John Bender (originally played by Judd Nelson): Jared Padalecki.

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Claire Standish (originally played by Molly Ringwald): Blake Lively.

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Allison Reynolds (originally played by Ally Sheedy): Katy Perry.

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Richard Vernon (originally played by Paul Gleason): Fred Willard.


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Comments

Ah, the best time suck I've seen all day. But first: the link to this goes to the biggest paycheck whores article, which is probably appropriate, but you have to click on the permalink to get here. Off to read now.

Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at February 10, 2009 3:02 PM

Ooooo, I like where this is going. Although I really absolutely fucking hate Shia Laboeuf, I think the list is pretty much pitch perfect. The "real" list, on the other hand, just triggered my previously non-existent gag reflex.

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at February 10, 2009 3:09 PM

Nope. I'm not going to play your silly little sadistic game. First, I'm too old to try an pick a litter for a movie that will fall below my demographic. Secondly, these young actors all look the same to me, wouldn't know who the hell was who. Lastly, I will not partake in even a hypothetical recasting of this movie. BClub was my LIFE as a teenager. How dare you defile!
Now get off my lawn!

Posted by: courtney at February 10, 2009 3:10 PM

Didn't Padelecki die? I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere.

Posted by: TK at February 10, 2009 3:13 PM

My dyslexia is acting up, and I thought for a second that Jeremy was going to "absolutely hate fuck" Laboof.

Posted by: branded at February 10, 2009 3:14 PM

Ick. Ick. Ick. Just looking at those photos is enough to tell me none of those people have the necessary personality. And even if they did, it would be an abomination.

Sacrilege.

Godtopus, strike this idea down with all ye tentacles!

Posted by: Cindy at February 10, 2009 3:14 PM

For the "actual" remake, you forgot the entire original cast as the parents picking them up at the end.

Posted by: Eep at February 10, 2009 3:14 PM

Okay, A: You want to replace Molly with a blonde? That kind of thing can get people called "fucknuts".

B: Again with the Thirlby and Seyfried around here!

Granted, someone's probably compiling their own list of Buffy actors to put in here.

I can see Jonah Hill breaking down though. That's a savvy choice.

Posted by: Jay at February 10, 2009 3:25 PM

Actually, I think that Fred Willard would be hilarious as the principal. He's just so great in the Christopher Guest movies. Another good principal would be Kurtwood Smith. After playing Red on That 70s Show for all those years, it's not that much of a stretch.

Of course, having said all that, I am, of course, diametrically opposed to remaking this film!

Posted by: tamatha at February 10, 2009 3:27 PM

What would it take to make Katy Perry disappear forever?

Posted by: Melissa at February 10, 2009 3:34 PM

Rowles, why you gotta break balls?

Why the second list?

Why do you hate us?

Posted by: admin at February 10, 2009 3:34 PM

When I say I really absolutely fucking hate Shia Laboeuf I really absolutely fucking mean it. I will not be paying money to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen because he is in it.

Posted by: EricD at February 10, 2009 3:35 PM

No, no, no, no, no, no, NO. You all need to stop talking about it right now, because every time PajibaWorld makes even just a snide passing remark about ridiculous remakes and sequels, they mother-fucking HAPPEN. Goddamnitalltohell.

Posted by: Jen at February 10, 2009 3:35 PM

Wasn't Mr. Vernon just a douchebag teacher with no life who actually wanted to be at school on a Saturday?? I really hope he wasn't supposed to be the principal.

Posted by: SCG at February 10, 2009 3:36 PM

I love Fred Willard, but he should not be playing a heavy. I think it would be hilarious to just go all-out and put say a Michael Ironside in that role.

Btw, the trifecta of stupid currently trendy hair cuts on the three "obvious choice" actors is cracking me up. Helmet to the left, helmet to the right, helmet parted down the middle.

Posted by: Eep at February 10, 2009 3:37 PM

Vernon was the Assistant Principal. Don't know if it's still done this way, but when I was in school, the AP handled all the student discipline issues...including Saturday school.

Posted by: Jen at February 10, 2009 3:42 PM

ditto Eep.

Those three "guys" are identical.

Posted by: Rachel at February 10, 2009 3:46 PM

Jesus Christ, the easiest thing to do would be to set it in modern day with the same characters... Harmony Korine will direct it, there will be no music, and in the end, everybody will die. MAKE IT HAPPEN GUMMODOUCHE!

HERE WE GOGOGO!!

Andrew/Emilio will be a washed-up armchair quarterback with acid reflux and a spinal injury obtained during a fistfight with his ex-girlfriend's son. Most of his scenes will take place in a recliner bathed in the flickering light from a television displaying either ESPN2 or the Spice network... He will masturbate to both.

Brian/Anthony will continually stand dead-eyed and vacant behind the counter at the discount electronics store his parents owned before passing away. Occasionally, he'll slip away to the cellar to tearfully apologize to his mother and father, who he keeps wrapped in several layers of Saran Wrap and Little Tree air fresheners.

Bender/Judd will be wearing the exact same outfit he had in high school. He'll sit sullenly at the VFW staring at a pile of losing pull-tabs. In the background, just out of focus, a pre-adolescent boy wearing a pair of pink bunny ears and shorts will dance the way Bender danced that rainy Saturday of 1984...

Claire/Molly will spend all of her scenes mute and nude under the light of a single red bulb. She poses seductively for www.redheadmilfs.com in order to put food on the table for her children - each one an eerie doppleganger of Andrew, Brian and Bender.

Allison/Sheedy has been replaced by a goat. The goat wanders from scene to scene, and in one harrowing scene, is captured and eaten alive by Marilyn McCoo, playing the part of Mrs. Vernon, a down-on-her luck meth dealer who speaks in rhyme...

See? Ain't gonna be that bad...

Posted by: Skitz at February 10, 2009 3:52 PM

I hardly know who any of these people are, except for Shia LeBouf (and I don't care for him), Jonah Hill, and Fred Willard (love him). Is Katy Perry a singer?

I'm not saying that to try to sound above it all, either. I REALLY don't know who any of those other people are. So I guess I can't weigh in except to say DON'T REMAKE THIS MOVIE. IT WILL FLOP.

And it will be like every other derivative 20+ years later: the kids will see it with no clue as to what it grew out of.

Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at February 10, 2009 3:54 PM

branded: You can't really hate fuck someone if you're a bottom...I think. The schematics of gay sex confuse me. Anyhoodle, I wouldn't fuck this guy with a ten foot pole.

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at February 10, 2009 3:54 PM

Also, I saw this movie on a first date in Feb. 1985. The movie theater was packed. The tickets were $2.50 each, first run, Friday show. You may regard me as a relic now.

Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at February 10, 2009 3:57 PM

Good to see the new cast will be just as lilly-goddamn-white as the first. Didn't most of you motherfuckers attend high school in the 90s? Weren't schools fully intergrated by then? Or did everybody here grow up in Utah or Idaho or some other godforsaken fucking wasteland minority-types are smart enough to avoid?

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at February 10, 2009 4:07 PM

Sorry, didn't know where to put this, but I have what could be the best possible news in a while...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29124309

America truly has won, my friends. Now...commence betting on how she exits! (My bet is some neurological disorder (let's call it "Ironitis") that causes her to throw herself under a bus.)

Posted by: Mike R. at February 10, 2009 4:21 PM

Well, Tracer , that Zac kid wears enough foundation to almost be considered Latina. Does that count?

Posted by: MG at February 10, 2009 4:25 PM

Granted, someone's probably compiling their own list of Buffy actors to put in here.

Awesome idea, Jay!

Let's see:

Marc Blucas as Andrew.
Danny Strong as Brian.
David Boreanaz as Bender.
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Claire.
Amber Benson as Allison.

Easy as (really difficult) pie!

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at February 10, 2009 4:36 PM

Mike you ignorant slut! That is not good news, it now gives her more time to do other stuff! I could at least avoid the Smasher of Prisms as I knew what channels and times her malicious mug would appear. Now I'm going to have to be constantly vigilant lest she spring upon my delicate optic nerves like a mange infected sea donkey.

SHIT!

Posted by: admin at February 10, 2009 4:39 PM

even if you're a power bottom?

Posted by: Handel at February 10, 2009 5:14 PM

"Anyhoodle, I wouldn't fuck this guy with a ten foot pole."
Yeah, but would you fuck him with a 10 ft Pole?

Posted by: Stella at February 10, 2009 5:16 PM

No. Just No.
Stop raping my childhood!
What is next, a repaint of the Sistine chapel by Thomas Kinkade?

Posted by: Lindsey at February 10, 2009 5:32 PM

For the love god stop talking about this crappy movie. Can you say over rated? The only reason people thought it was half good is becase it was made in the 80's. The same pasty white bitches like the ones in this movie ran our economy into the ground. "Oh, life is so hard! I don't know how to handle the peer pressure"

Please, last night I cyber fucked my math teacher who said he was a 18 year old chick, now were having a digital baby. That's pressure bitches!

Posted by: John Hughes my ass at February 10, 2009 5:38 PM

Admin, it's good news because only the talented (or REALLY desperate) ones survive in Hollywood post jump from TV to movies. And even then, the desperate ones give up and hawk infomercials.

Just think, thanks to this we're closer to having Katherine Heigl doing ShamWOW! commercials. She'll have a case of the S.H.I.T.S. and her career will die its eventual stripper death.

Posted by: Mike R. at February 10, 2009 6:28 PM

This post was cool until the healthy dose of reality at the end.

Posted by: Agente Provocatrice at February 10, 2009 6:58 PM

Aw, I suddenly want to watch the Breakfast Club.

Oh my gosh. Amanda Seyfried's face looks, uh, baked or something in that photo. Whatever happened, she does not look like her normal self in that picture.

Pajiba should have a best and worst young adult/teen actors list or guide. But then again, it'd probably be pretty obvious which actors would be on which end of the spectrum, huh?

Posted by: KP at February 10, 2009 7:05 PM

My inner 16 year old just sliced her wrists in the bathtub.

Posted by: Janey at February 10, 2009 7:08 PM

AvB: Oh come on you have to have Xander instead of Jonathan. And Angel fits in way more as the jock than stupid Riley (I never could stand him). And Bender has to be Spike.

Posted by: stipe42 at February 10, 2009 7:30 PM

Do they even have detention anymore? I'm pretty sure it's been outlawed in some misguided movement to treat children like humans, and, like, recognize their human rights. Not to mention the liabilities of keeping them against their will after hours! And the staff time they'd have to pay! Hoo! Boy. It's enough to give a principal from modern times a heart attack. I don't think those kids today would even know what this movie was about. Detention. Feh. That's what they do at Gitmo, right? If they want to remake it they'll have to make up some kind of terrorist bombing conceit to have them all locked in a room together for 8 hours. And Bender will act like a jackass the whole time pretending like he only cares about himself but at the end of the day he'll save everyone from the bomb even though he's risking his own life and then they'll fake us out like he's gonna die but then he won't, and he and Claire will admit their love for each other and make out while he lays bleeding on the floor of the cafeteria.

Meanwhile Allison will help defeat the terrorists by showing them her boobies and Andrew will get totally jealous because he won't realize she's doing it to make her life WORTH something, dammit. And Brian will keep them all laughing at themselves to break the tension. And maybe he'll fall for an older lady suicide bomber who reconsiders and helps them all escape. Played by Eliza Dushku.

It will be awesome.

And Bender will be played by Dule Hill probably. And Claire by that Asian chick from one of those Bring It On movies. (Cause, you know, rich girls now are all Asian in movies. It's such a safe way to bring diversity to the cast, you know?) And kids from the rough side of town are all Black.

Posted by: Codger at February 10, 2009 8:39 PM

I hate your prophecies Dustin, fuck you! That was way to terrifyingly close to reality. Especially Fred Willard! He'll take anything, but damn, I didn't need to be reminded of that.

Sorry stripe42, the Buffy people are in there 30's and 40's, and they have too much dignity for this thing. I say that with the knowledge that Nicolas Brendon is a drug addict.

Posted by: George at February 10, 2009 8:41 PM

Fuck you Dustin! I didn't need to be reminded of this. The inevitable pick that I hate the most is Fred Willard, he's made some of the worst movies ever, and I'm confident if given enough money, he'd eat a pile of shit on TV.

Sorry stripe42, the Buffy people would never do this both because they're in there late 30's or early 40's, and they have way to much dignity for this. I say this with the knowledge of what they've been in (Bones, Date Movie, The Dragon Ball Z Movie) and the knowledge that Nicolas Brendon is a drug addict.

Posted by: George at February 10, 2009 8:46 PM

I would actually see the remake if they hired you as a casting consultant. But since they probably won't (no offense) I'm dreading the day I see this on billboards.

Also? I fucking hate that commercial.

Posted by: Ilana at February 10, 2009 9:29 PM

her career will die its eventual stripper death.

But she won't strip right? Right!? Cause I just couldn't handle that man, that's just wrong. Like, Platypus wrong.

I am also confused as to how to feel about you mentioning Visible Colour Spectrum Killer and the ShamWOW! in the same sentence. It's like you want the ShamWOW! to die.

Posted by: admin at February 10, 2009 10:20 PM

Admin, if she's forced to use a ShamWOW, she'll either

A.) Not know how to use one and accidentally kill herself with it.

Or...

B.) She'll see how low her career has sank, see what she's reduced herself to doing with her life, and off herself anyway.

It's a roundabout way of ensuring our success, and the ShamWOW's sacrifice is one I'm willing to allow. Particularly because we wouldn't be plagued with Heiglfield anymore, and I don't have to snicker whenever that toad gets to the line "It's made in Germany. You know Germans make good stuff!" In fact, as a two-fer, she's going to have to kill that man before she gets the job. One less pest to deal with, my friend.

Posted by: Mike R. at February 10, 2009 10:34 PM

stipey, my darling, let me ask you this: whose buttcheeks can you more easily imagine taping together: Xander's, or Jonathan's? And, frankly, much as I adore him and it pains me to say it, Marsters is no Bender. Bender is a brooder, much like Angel. Hence, Boreanaz.

I stand by my Buffy casting.

P.S. George, what exactly is it that you are saying about my beloved Bones? Because I will not hesitate to cut a bitch.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at February 10, 2009 10:38 PM

Once again, good sir, you are sixteen and one half steps ahead of me.

Goddamn lead paint.

Posted by: admin at February 10, 2009 10:41 PM

Exactly what you think Anna, Bones is one of the most implausible and boring shows in TV history. The stuff the Buffy crowd has taken after the show, except Brendon, who became a drug addict, has been utter shit. I stand by that statement with confidence, with certain exceptions, they just pick terrible stuff. Especially Sarah Michelle Geller's choice for a husband. (I'll never forgive you Freddie Prince Jr!)

Posted by: George at February 10, 2009 11:22 PM

Ah, poor misguided Jeremy...there are no limitations as to what a good bottom can do. If you don't believe me, just look how far Zac Efron has gotten on a half-inch of pancake make-up and a singing voice thinner than Jeremy Piven's hair.

That, my friends, is one talented anus.

Posted by: The Pink Hulk at February 11, 2009 12:13 AM

No no no, you're getting it all wrong. According to recent #1 movies in America, here is who should play who.....

Kevin James is Andrew....who is now a Mall Cop after blowing out his knee freshman year of college and gaining 100 pounds.

Steve Martin is Brian. He moved to France and came back with a really fucked up accent and terrible comedic timing.

Liam Neeson is Bender - Don't fuck with Bender nowadays....actually the only person who could is probably Vernon.

Clint Eastwood is Vernon - He's crotchety and racist as hell now.....

Jennifer Aniston is Claire - For reasons no one can really understand...she's been in two #1 movies so far this year.

Ginnifer Goodwin is Allison - Cause I think she is adorable.

Adam Sandler cameos as the janitor. Rob Schneider will play his mop.

Get Bay or Ratner to direct, we're talking 150 million when it opens Memorial Day Weekend coming in second to the remake of Sanford and Son with Will Smith as Fred G. Sanford, Jaden Smith as Lamont and Jada Pinkett Smith as Aunt Esther.

Posted by: Rubble44 at February 11, 2009 1:57 AM

Boring? George, are you kidding me? Did you *see* the one where they were in the circus?! That was awesome, my friend. Borenanaz's mustache and accent alone were enough to make that episode worth watching. Well, that and his arms in a wifebeater, but I digress... I will give you implausible, and I will also give you that they do seem to pick some crappy crappy stuff to be in, but I'm going to have to say that Bones is one of the exceptions. (Of course, I also have a strange love of Big Bang Theory and American Idol, so I'm willing to concede I may not be the best judge. However, I will still cut a bitch.)

Also, I forgot to include in my cast Armin Shimerman as Dick Vernon and Anthony Stewart Head as Carl "I am the eyes and ears of this institution" the janitor. Oh! Actually, Nicky Brendan would be perfect for that at this point, wouldn't he? Poor guy.

But, aside from my awesome Buffy casting, I think Rubble44's might be the best.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at February 11, 2009 8:53 AM

I think they already remade The Breakfast Club as TV show over in England, but they threw a Sci Fi angle into it. I believe it's called Torchwood. Quite good, actually.

Posted by: Mike R. at February 11, 2009 9:41 AM

codger Yes, they do still have detention, both teacher detention and central detention (which is what The Breakfast Club centered around).

And it still does no good, just as it always has done no good.

Does that make you feel better about things? Kids are still kids, dude. They always will be. The world around us may change, but kids still think it's great to roughhouse, they still pass notes (yep, believe it or not), they're still goofy, they still do stupid stuff, they're still clumsy and awkward and angsty. Just as it should be.

And detention--it lives on.

Posted by: Anastasia Beaverhausen at February 11, 2009 11:13 AM

It'd be kind of interesting to do the movie but switch the sexes: dorky girl, athletic girl, gorgeous guy, neurotic guy, rebel girl. And have the teacher be a bitter, bitter bitch, a la Judi Dench in "Notes on a Scandal."

Posted by: samantha t at February 11, 2009 11:34 AM

If Taylor Kitsch is going to be in it, I demand that this version be 'The Breakfast Club - Now All Naked!'.

But apart from that, I don't care. TBC wasn't one of my seminal movies, I was already too old for it.
(It's not my lawn I tell the kids to keep off of - it's my cemetary plot...)

Posted by: Tarn at February 11, 2009 1:56 PM

I hate Shia Labeouf.


And Blue Crush had a script?

I'll check back in later when i'm less cranky. It's seven in the morning here.

Posted by: karstark at February 11, 2009 6:26 PM

They can't do a remake of Breakfast Club because it would be a massive FAIL compared to the original. Although the dude you chose for Bender is SO FREAKIN' HOT! I almost melted when I saw that picture of him...I think he may be too hot to actually play Bender though. Judd Nelson's nose sorta bothered me and detracted from the hotness, so he was a more acceptable "bad" one.

Posted by: ph at February 11, 2009 7:26 PM