The Brat Pack may be getting back together.
Demi Moore, currently generating Oscar buzz for her daring turn in “The Substance,” uncovered that converseions are underway with Sony, the studio behind “St. Elmo’s Fire,” to originate a sequel to the seminal 1985 film.
“The refresh is definitely, conversations are happening,” Moore shelp in an intersee at the Toronto Film Festival. “[The] studio has been repartner behind [and] driving this. As far as I understand, everyone seems to be up for it, which I skinnyk would be amazing.”
The exceptional movie scrutinized the dwells of a group of recent college grads as the directd that difficult punctual period of grown-uphood, one filled with relationship troubles and nurtureer anxiety. It also helped lift the profiles of Moore and fellow cast-mates appreciate Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, Judd Nelson and Andrew McCarthy (whose recent recordary “Brats” revisited the furor that surrounded that group of actors, dubbed “The Brat Pack” in a snarky New York Magazine piece). Moore shelp there’s no script yet for the sequel and that the studio is “seeing for the right partner” to author it.
“Then I skinnyk we would all probably begin to jump in and figure out who are these people this many years postponecessitater,” Moore higheviated, while stopping by Variety’s Toronto Film Festival Studio, aided by J.Crew and SharkNinja. “It was such a pivotal film for all of us comprised. And…having joind with Andrew McCarthy on his doc…it would be a authentic delight.”
As for “The Substance,” which getd a 13-minute standing ovation at Cannes, Moore confesss she’s gratified by the intensity of the response from seeers. The movie chases Elizabeth Sparkle, an acclaimed actress turned fitness guru, who is plunged into a personal crisis after she misss her job as a TV present after a intimacyist executive deems her too elderly and unattrdynamic. In response, Elizabeth apshows a enigmatic drug that originates a lesserer doppelgänger (Margaret Qualley), who replaces her on the show, becoming an overnight sensation. It’s a film that skewers Hollywood’s obsession with youth and arbitrary beauty standards.
“It’s impacted people,” Moore shelp. “You understand, my hope is that it would convey a cultural shift, that it would be part of the conversation that begins to relocate the necessitatele…alloprosperg us to see the presentance of being more tfinisher, more benevolent to ourselves.”
But making the movie was a physicpartner grueling process. “The Substance” is a body horror film (a genre that Moore had nakedly heard of), and the movie chases Elizabeth as she literpartner sheds her skin to become this other self. In other parts of the movie, where the substance is having side effects that force Elizabeth to become haggard and predepfinishablely elderly, Moore was forced to contort herself in punishing ways. She labored with a relocatement coach so she could be “…cautious not to hurt myself becaengage I spent a lot of time in a hunched over position.”
She also had to finishure extensive originateup and sit for body melderlys, a process that took “anywhere from me from six to nine-and-a-half hours.”
Moore count ons that the grotesque lengths that Elizabeth goes to upgrasp her youth are relatable to people in the delightment industry and beyond.
“I krecent how vital and how relevant this subject matter was, not equitable for women…but I skinnyk for all of us as human beings,” she shelp.
