The Brunch Club, maybe?

Anthony Michael Hall, one of the stars of the generation-defining John Hughes film The Breakfast Club, says the director had discussed with him an eventual sequel to the 1985 hit teen film, perhaps building a re-visit around the lives of the since-grown characters.

“It was something that was on his mind, the idea of bringing back the Breakfast Club,” Hall said this week during an interview on The Rich Eisen Show. “Like, those five characters reunited somehow later in their life and they’re in the workforce and they’re in their 30s.”

Hall said he last spoke to Hughes – who died of a heart attack in 2009 – several years after Breakfast Club. “He called me with John Candy on the phone, and it was about 1988, and we just hung out on the phone for a couple hours, and he talked about [a sequel] at that time.”

“So I think that it was something he was playing with,” Hall continued. “I don’t know if he had written it or not.”

Hall co-starred with Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy in the film, portraying Brian “The Brain” Johnson, one of five high schoolers of disparate types who form an alliance after being placed in Saturday morning detention.

Hall also appeared in Hughes’ films Sixteen Candles (1984) and Weird Science, and in the interview recalls the creation of the latter film which, like Breakfast Club, was released in 1985.

Hall says that two weeks into filming Breakfast Club, Hughes approached him with a pitch. “He goes, ‘I just came up with another idea for our next film.’ He goes, ‘It’s going to be you and this other kid. You’re going to create a girl in the computer.’ I’m like, ‘What?’”

The other kid in Weird Science would eventually be played by Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and the girl they create (with help from a hacked government computer) was played by Kelly LeBrock.

Watch the interview below. The conversation about Hughes arrives about 7 minutes in.

Too soon, too tasteless or just too cruel, take your pick, but Bill Maher‘s two Ariana Grande weight jokes during his opening monologue on Friday’s Real Time With Bill Maher were met with mixed audience reactions.

Maher sidled up to the subject by recapping some of the bad news of the week, then saying, “I hope the aliens are here, I do. I hope they’re here and watching us and they’re going to save us.”

So far, so good.

Then:

“And, by the way, the administration this week, just a few days ago, maybe yesterday, unleashed a new trove of UFO files. Interesting things in there. Triangular craft, weird lights over an army base, a stick-like figure with large eyes – oh, that was just an Ariana Grande video.”

The Real Time audience took that one in stride, giving it a good laugh and applause, but then Maher pushed his luck.

Doing his usual butter-wouldn’t-melt bit, the host continued, “Please, we kid. We kid. Maybe that joke will make her eat something.”

That last jab – misguided from a treatment standpoint if nothing else – was a step too far for the audience, who responded with groans and awwws. “I’m saying, maybe it will help,” Maher continued before quickly segueing to another food topic: “Democrats,” he said, “have found a candidate who hates Thanksgiving.”

Grande recently announced that she was dropping plans to appear in a West End revival of the musical Sunday in the Park with George alongside Jonathan Bailey. Despite widespread concern and commentary over her appearance in the new music video “Petal,” the singer has not specified a reason for her temporary career break beyond noting that “boundaries, they need to be set. Human beings can need a break sometimes.”

Watch the Maher segment below.