Anthony Michael Hall says John Hughes once considered bringing the five central characters from The Breakfast Club back together as adults navigating careers and life beyond high school. “It was something that was on his mind,” Hall said of a possible Breakfast Club continuation, according to PEOPLE. Hughes Was Already Planning ‘Weird Science’ During ‘The Breakfast Club’Hall also used another story from their collaboration to illustrate how quickly Hughes generated new projects. While filming The Breakfast Club in 1984, Hughes approached Hall approximately two weeks into production and told him he had come up with another movie. That idea became Weird Science, which Hughes wrote and directed with Hall starring alongside Ilan Mitchell-Smith and Kelly LeBrock.