“‘The Breakfast Club’ started out as a little independent movie in Chicago,” executive producer Andrew Meyer told The Post. “With little-known actors and a little-known director.”
When John Hughes wrote “The Breakfast Club” in 1982, he could’ve made himself the rebel group’s sixth member: the Nobody.
Although “Sixteen Candles” was released several months prior, in May 1984, Hughes penned “Breakfast Club” first. He’d never directed any feature before. “He said, ‘I do, but there’s a problem.’ I said, ‘What’s the problem?’ He said, ‘I have to direct it.’ Hughes stressed that he wrote the film to take place in a single room and knew exactly what his vision required. He needed to direct it. That was enough for the producer.
“He had never directed a movie; I’d never produced a movie,” Meyer said. “And I agreed to give him $1 million to direct this movie. It was sort of like ‘The Producers.’” “ had the cast arrive several weeks early stay together in a hotel, maybe a week or so, and hang out together,” Meyer said. “So, by the time they walked on the set, they knew each other so well, like they were in high school.”how much he admired the care that Hughes, who died in 2009, had for real teen issues when few were giving them much thought.
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