Gen X, REJOICE! “St. Elmo’s Fire” sequel is happening!

Who asked for this?

Boogita boogita boogita Ah Ah Ah.

Development hell coming soon.

So, a remake of The Big Chill?

Please don't mess this up

If this is successful, we can count on the following:

About 14,000 Last Nights Ago

The Early Bird Special Breakfast Club

Sixty-Seven Candles

I'd still let Rob sit on my face 😈

Shit-tastic! So they’re all in the 60s and live in Chevy chase

It’ll never make it past development

Of course it will!

You know the nostril guy won't agree to it. I forgot his name for a moment, that was the placeholder. Judd Nelson.

I’d rather watch a cow shit a bucketload of flop onto the ground

The nice thing is anybody who won't return can be dead instead. This is basically The Big Chill, with electric guitars.

I wonder if they can rope Molly Ringworm into this too.

At least Demi looks fabulous.

So does horny Rob

R15 = Demi Moore

Sharon Stone would be perfect to play the missing member of the group who left to study in Paris and became an A-list model and actress.

Now a successful head of a Fortune 500 company and billionaire, she returns to rekindle old friendships - along with some romances.

Sharon could convey the sensuality and charisma that had all the men - and women- in their group enthralled and add A-list star power to this sure to be talked about sequel.

Glenn Close could sing the theme song!

Why would anyone think of Molly Ringwald for this?

She can play Mare's lesbian life partner.

Someone on here is from India

Sharon is half a decade older than most of the cast, but maybe at this point it doesn't matter.

What's "boogita?"

Will Thom Bierdz be making an appearance as "Rowdy Undergrad" now billed as "Crazy Elder Gay" ??

Is that the stupid phrase all the boys said together?

St. Elmo's Fire? more like St. Elmo's Retired.

If any of them needs advise on getting the project cancelled, they should ask me.

Negotiating separately for a solo film would be a good start

St Elmo's Walker

I hope they bring back Andie MacDowell.

[quote]Sharon is half a decade older than most of the cast, but maybe at this point it doesn't matter.

Have you seen her recently? She looks old enough to be the actual cast members' mother. I was stunned to see how much she'd let herself go after a guest star appearance on a crappy HBO miniseries ("The Flight Attendant").

Sharon Stone looks a good decade younger than the cast

Shit now I have to rewatch St Elmo's Fire

Oh wait I never watched it.

Whew, dodged a bullet

I hope they return to John Paar for the film's power ballad.

R33, you took the words right out of my mouth.

Didn't watch it the first time, and I'm sure not going to watch it now.

I can play Rob Lowe's wife.

R30 = Andie MacDowell, star of Hallmark Channel’s “The Way Home”

Never sat through the entire thing and hate the music

[quote] I hope they return to John Paar for the film's power ballad.

So do I!

I wonder if Judd Nelson's schedule will be free to do this!

Judd is 64. He retired years ago.

A fire has burned down Houlihan's and the gang reunite at St. Elmo's which has stayed open all these years with Billy as the owner. He had moved back to Washington from New York after failing to make it as a saxophonist and lives with his wife Andie (Molly Ringwald) whom he met on a gig in Chicago.

The original is a terrible movie that I love, but I would have NEVER expected a sequel - especially nearly 40 years later. Kevin should be a came-out-late gay, and Anna Marie Horsford MUST make an appearance, as well as Matthew Laurence as Ron Dellasandro.

[quote]...it is happening and in its early stages!!!

What? Adult onset dementia?

And surely that is as welcomed as this news. Fucking hell. Never was something needed or wanted less.

I hate the contorted, burn graft faced, terrible actor and all around creepy as fuck Rob Lowe and that shittiest of films of a shitty time for films.

r33 IKR?

Mare!

The films opens with Demi Moore, sitting on the floor in a walk in freezer.

When Rob Lowe says, "We sat down and talked about it" with the studios, what did they talk about exactly?

For ill-advised, unnecessary reunions, it's best to hold out for a separate one day $1M appearance

Alec went back to being a democrat. Kirby made it really big and went Fluff 'n Fold. Billy still believes in premarital sax. Leslie threw away the pearls. Credits.

I was a big fan of St. Elmo’s Fire when it came out. I have no desire to see a sequel.

I hated St. Elmo's Fire when it came out. Not a single likeable character in the entire movie.

I saw the original when it came out in the'80s and remember being obsessed with Demi Moore's apartment at the time. I looked up some pics of it and OMG it's horrible.

As a young gayling I should have been appalled.

Fucking hell, R53

I told you!

R24...

At least people dressed great back then.

Joyce Van Patten cameo in that trailer.

Siskel & Ebert review it (at 5:25).

Special guest appearance by Anna Maria Horsford, as Naomi, the earthy former sex worker who now runs a women’s shelter in Rockville, MD.

Who should remake the St. Elmo's Fire Song, "Man in Motion" sung so memorably by ....

.... hold on

.... hold on

... googling ... yes! ...John Parr?

I can envision a whole concept remix album

Netflix has greenlighted worse.

I remember the characters all seeming so cool to me but don't know why.

I was 19 when this came out, I was in between the high school movies (Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink) and the after college movies like this. I had such a crush on Rob Lowe in this movie when I watched it back then.

Rob Lowe’s kid in the first film would be around 40 now.

“St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion) -Brat Remix,” Charli XCX and John Parr, produced by Doctor Luke

[quote] The films opens with Demi Moore, sitting on my face.

FIFY

[quote] Who asked for this?

🤚

"Rob Lowe’s kid in the first film would be around 40 now."

Ha. I completely forgot about baby Melody. She HAS to make an appearance as Billy's grown child, and maybe Billy's ex-wife Felicia as well. And while we're at it, maybe one of the clearly to vaguely biracial kids of the "just give me my check" welfare chick. We'll assume that chick died.

In the sequel, Wendy has taken to her now-deceased mother's habit of whispering gossip.

St Elmo's Fire was the lamest of the group.

I'd much rather see a Breakfast Club sequel or even Pretty in Pink. You really couldn't do Sixteen Candles without Jake.

Less Than Zero! Blair and Clay are married, but there's rot underneath the pristine visage of wealthy adulthood - moral rot; marriage rot; mental rot.

It's true that some critic nicknamed this movie "The Little Chill" at the time.

They get into a rumble at the Villages with the cast of Reality Bites

John Belushi rises from the dead to mime life lessons for them all.

Emlios Estevez gets AIDS from having been fucked by Charlie Sheen.

Demi Moore tries to commit suicide by covering herself with honey and laying out in the garden.

This time she succeeds

Wendy had reconnected with Howie and marries him, but still pined for Billy even though she knew he's no good for her. Sex life with Howie was dismal, but NOT because of Howie. Wendy used the the idea of a more interesting life with Billy as a way to not engage with her then-present life, having told herself that she "settled" for Howie and she could have been living a more exciting passionate life. But, at the end of the day, she was just an in-denial lesbian. And in the sequel she's living with her annoying partner.

Is St. Elmo's fire considered GenX? When I think of GenX, I think of Reality Bites.

R80, I was born in 1972 - solidly Gen X, no gray area. St. Elmo's Fire came out in 1985 shortly before I turned 13. I was old enough to watch it and understand it. Though, I wasn't an adult, so it didn't resonate with me (to the extent SEF can "resonate" at all). Reality Bites came out in 1994 when I was 21, and I was closer in age to the characters, so sure, it's a better generational fit for me. Though, I had rewatched SEF a couple times as I got older - in my mid/late teens and my early 20s - so I had seen it as a young adult too.

Gen X spans 1965-1980, so it make sense

R70 Since Joyce Van Patten is still alive she should play Wendy's mom (not deceased).

Baby boom (boomer) generation makes sense, since there was a postwar baby boom. I don't understand the demarcations between all these other generations.