This coming season old eighties hits are all the rage at the broadcast networks, especially ABC. Already slated to start this fall are Eastwick (based on the same novel as the 80s movie) and V on ABC, and another remake of Parenthood for NBC. And now it appears that St. Elmo's Fire, one of the defining Brat Pack movies of the eighties, could be headed to our TV screens.
In reality, the dramedy series project has received a script commitment, and has signed Dan Bucatinsky on to write it. Joel Schumacher, who co-wrote and directed the original movie, is also on board as an executive producer, along with Topher Grace and Jamie Tarses.
The series will use the movie as a starting point, and keep the setting the same, Georgetown University and St. Elmo's Bar & Grill. But six new friends will be introduced, three girls and three boys, and through their eyes we'll see their adjustment from college life into adulthood.
"It's the feeling of that time in your life when everything is possible but you can't figure out how to make it possible," said Topher Grace.
The series definitely has a Friends feel to it, being about a group of six friends who are entering adulthood and hang out at a coffee shop (a bar in this case) all the time. But writer and executive producer Bucatinsky didn't seem to mind the comparison, saying that it was time to recreate Friends in the hour long genre. Though unlike Friends, St. Elmo's Fire stands to be a much more dramatic take on a group of friend's journey into adulthood. However, whether or not now is the time for such a show, well, we'll just have to wait and see. I just hope they keep that awesome theme song.
Source: THR
