{"id":275172,"date":"2026-02-01T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275172\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:45:08","slug":"molly-ringwald-doesnt-want-to-see-john-hughes-remakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275172\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Ringwald Doesn\u2019t Want to See John Hughes Remakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/693e8c4c83b87eb13939de04f58a623780-molly-ringwald.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" alt=\"The Gotham Awards At Cipriani Wall Street On December 1st, 2025 In New York City\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo: Mike Coppola\/Getty Images for The Gotham Film\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cml2tnhhr000i0ih2qpittull@published\" data-word-count=\"182\">Makes sense. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2012\/07\/the-lost-projects-of-john-hughes.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Hughes<\/a> muse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/molly-ringwald-feud-interview.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Molly Ringwald<\/a> says that she doesn\u2019t think that anyone should try to remake one of the iconic director\u2019s movies, and that he probably wouldn\u2019t have wanted people to anyway. \u201cWell, they can\u2019t be [remade] because they can\u2019t be made without the permission of [the late] John Hughes, and he didn\u2019t want the films to be remade,\u201d the Pretty in Pink star told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/molly-ringwald-said-john-hughes-didnt-want-his-movies-remade-she-agrees-exclusive-11895807?taid=697e49b068c9b90001d1bd1f&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think that they should be really.\u201d But if there had to be a remake of one film, she\u2019d hope that the hypothetical filmmaker would focus more on the heart of the movie rather than a literal shot-for-shot remake. \u201cI feel like if somebody does something, I would prefer that they do something \u2026 that takes from\u00a0Breakfast Club\u00a0and then builds on [it], and represents this generation\u2019s issues rather than to try to recreate what was of a different time,\u201d she concluded. Technically, the only other remake that could be made would be Miracle on 34th Street, since the movie is a reimagining of the classic story and was adapted by Hughes. Loophole?<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Mike Coppola\/Getty Images for The Gotham Film Makes sense. John Hughes muse Molly Ringwald says that she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,91097,41225,270,43,134005,110896],"class_list":{"0":"post-275172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-john-hughes","13":"tag-molly-ringwald","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-no-thanks","17":"tag-remakes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}