Remaking The Breakfast Club in an Airport?

Breakfast Club in an Airport?McG protege and music video helmer Anna Mastro has signed on to direct Bumped, a modern-day version of The Breakfast Club, from a script by Lizzy Weiss. The plot is described as:

“A comedy-drama revolving around five twentysomethings — including a corporate go-getter, a musician and a flirt — who normally wouldn’t be friends but who get to know one another when they’re bumped from a flight and wind up stranded at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.”

Discuss: Do we really need a modern-day remake of The Breaakfast Club? And if so, do we really want a protege of McG to direct it?

source: THR

  • JFK
    "a corporate go-getter, a musician and a flirt" I wonder what the other two stereotypes they have in their arsenal are...

    Not that Breakfast Club didn't abuse stereotypes (at first) but Hughes was largely about debunking those myths, you know, in a stereotypical feel-good-ending eighties sorta way. But god damn it Judd Nelson is the shit in that flick.

    Looks like they found a way to remake Breakfast Club to me. Who knows, if they aim high and don't dull the edges for a tween audience this could be mildly impacting on todays assumptions of... absolutely nothing.

    This will probably just end up being The Hills or the OC in an airport. With a black guy and a musician thrown in for good measure.

    At least we have the next Aronofsky flick to pray for.
  • Robert
    At least it's not an actual remake of The Breakfast Club, I might have stroked out...or at least cursed on this comment...alot.
  • Cinemaniac1979
    I hate that word. "Helmer."
  • patrick bateman
    I stopped reading after the word "McG". Sorry.
  • Steelo
    man they do that type of crap all the time anyway
  • To me, it seems as much a remake of 'Breakfast Club' as 'Disturbia' was a remake of 'Rear Window,' which is something I'm not opposed to. None of these are the same characters or anything, so I'm ok with that. But, to be clear, a maestro helms something, a doofus like McG does not.
  • cawlin
    If stuck in an airport...

    Corporate Go-getter: does work on his ultra portable laptop or checks email on his blackberry.

    Musician: pulls out ipod or iphone and listens to music / watches a movie.

    Flirt: Pulls out phone and texts

    If any of them feel like breaking character I assume they go buy a book, go eat some food at one of the restaurants or do any number of things you do in an airport other than talk to people around you and have a coming-of-age moment.

    This sounds retarded.
  • GregoryV
    If it's about the "quarterlife" crisis, I'll maybe, probably watch it.
  • Jerry Butler
    The twist at the end could be that they all get onto flight 92 on 911. :0
  • Jerry Butler
    btw, anyone seen that new Ferris Beuller ripoff. that thing has $2 walmart bin written all over it.
  • Vega Bro
    Oh, Fuck no!
  • Hunter Stephenson
    Booooo!

    For Slashfilm's New York readers: The IFC Center is showing Sixteen Candles tonight and tomorrow at midnight. Breakfast Club soon to follow.

    More info here: http://www.ifccenter.com/event?eventid=999851
  • yay
    Jerry Butler, I saw Charlie Bartlett and it was like someone put Rushmore and Ferris Bueller in a blender and served it in a dirty glass. Striking similarties to both films, not to mention it's failed attempts at being socially relevant.
  • Thank you Hollywood for shitting on every good movie. Just let them be!!!! Think of something new for a change!
  • Jason
    Sounds more like a remake of Unaccompanied Minors rather than The Breakfast Club.
  • David
    This doesn't even sound like a TBC remake. It sounds like 5 people that get bumped from an airline flight.
  • Happy_Evil_Dude
    I thought you liked McG?
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