Rob Lowe Reveals 'St. Elmo's Fire' Sequel Script Is In Works

More than 40 years later, Rob Lowe and friends are getting closer to reigniting St. Elmo’s Fire with a long-awaited sequel.

The 6x Golden Globe nominee, who has previously noted there’s interest in a follow-up, recently revealed that the team is “working on” a script, which they want to get just right.

“I’m trying to get it done, but I’m excited,” he said on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “I think the reason that St. Elmo’s continues to mean a lot to people is because it’s such a great snapshot of your 20s.”

Lowe added, “Everyone wants to do it. We just need to get the script right, and that’s what we’re working on.”

Back in 2024, Lowe told Entertainment Tonight that the sequel is in “very early stages” after he “met with the studio.” He noted that the documentary “only added to the excitement around” the film and a potential sequel.

NBC was previously developing a St. Elmo’s Fire series in 2019, which was set to be a modernized take on the original but never materialized.

The original Joel Schumacher film starred Lowe, Demi Moore, Andie MacDowell, Andrew McCarthy, Ally Sheedy, Mare Winningham, Judd Nelson and Emilio Estevez as a group of recent college graduates who struggle with adulthood as the venture into the world.

The cast reunited to appear in McCarthy’s 2024 documentary Brats, revisiting the cultural phenomenon known as the Brat Pack, the young actors who frequently appeared together in teen coming-of-age films of the ’80s.

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Really excited to see what they do with Anthony Michael Hall’s character!!!

Surely you jest. Anthony Michael Hall wasn’t in the film.

The cast did not reunite in Andrew McCarthy’s documentary. He travelled around the country and met up with some of the cast members individually.

Or this is a unique chance to take characters who we got just on the cusp of starting their true adult careers and lives, and now we can revisit the exact team on the cusp of retirement – you don’t see the interest in that?
I don’t want the ‘old people’ version of most of the movies from my youth, but given what this one was about, yeah, it’s ripe for a sequel!

Not really. The characters in The Breakfast Club interacted with each other for a single day. That’s a different dynamic than a group of people who were friends over a long period of time like in St Elmo’s Fire.

I am interested. I found this in the 90s on TV and loved it.