The Breakfast Club (1985): 15 INSANE Facts You Never Knew

The Breakfast Club looked like a simple story about five teenagers stuck in Saturday detention. But behind that one-day detention was a production filled with last-minute casting changes, actor conflicts, improvised scenes, rejected songs, and a sequel that almost happened but never did. John Hughes wrote the script in just two days. The iconic library was built inside a school gym. The famous fist pump wasn't in the script. Judd Nelson nearly got fired. And "Don't You Forget About Me" was rejected by multiple artists before becoming one of the most recognizable songs of the 1980s. These are 15 weird facts about The Breakfast Club — the kind that make one of the most beloved coming-of-age films ever made feel even more remarkable once you know what was happening behind the scenes.