Rob Lowe Says ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ Sequel Is In “Very, Very Early Stages”

Rob Lowe says that talks about a potential St. Elmo’s Fire sequel are very real.

The actor shared in a recent interview that a follow-up to the 1985 film co-written and directed by Joel Schumacher is happening, but don’t get your hopes up just yet.

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“We’ve met with the studio and I have been talking about doing it for about four months,” Lowe said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. “But it’s very, very, very, very, very early stages. So we will see.”

Lowe noted that the Brats documentary “only added to the excitement around” a sequel to the coming-of-age film, which also starred Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Andie MacDowell, and Mare Winningham.

Deadline reported in June that Sony was exploring the possibility of making a new version of St. Elmo’s Fire after McCarthy’s documentary Brats relived the memories of the “Brat Pack.”

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Schumacher and Carl Kurlander co-wrote St. Elmo’s Fire, which centers around a group of recent graduates from Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown University and how they adjusted to adulthood.

Over the years, Sony has attempted to adapt St. Elmo’s Fire into a television series, with the most recent attempt made at NBC in 2019.

Interest in films starring the young group of actors who frequently starred together in coming-of-age films in the 80s was renewed with the release of the documentary film Brats, which McCarthy directed.

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The film explored how the term “Brat Pack,” coined by David Blum in a 1985 New York magazine article, affected each actor differently. Lowe says in the film that the term, despite its negative connotation, brought the group closer together.

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