Rob Lowe Says ‘Everybody’ Wants to Do St. Elmo’s Fire Sequel

Rob Lowe says the Brat Pack may be ready to reunite yet again with a sequel to St. Elmo’s Fire.

“The script has to come in and we all have to like it but everybody wants to do it,” Lowe, 60, confirmed on the Wednesday, March 12, episode of his “Literally with Rob Lowe” podcast. “Everybody’s on board.”

The original movie, released in 1985, centered on a group of recent Georgetown graduates navigating adulthood in their early 20s. The name comes from the fictional St. Elmo’s Bar, their normal college hangout.

The topic of a sequel arose when Lowe was telling guest Adam Scott about how he was on the set of Back to the Future at the same time he was shooting St. Elmo’s Fire.

“We were shooting St. Elmo’s, which by the way, we’re doing a sequel to,” he said.

“Are you really? Did Brats help?” an excited Scott replied, referring to the 2024 Andrew McCarthy documentary about the group of young actors dubbed the Brat Pack.

McCarthy, 62, was a member himself and appeared in St. Elmo’s Fire alongside Lowe and fellow Brat Packers Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy.

“Brats helped it and it was just, like, yes we are doing it,” Lowe continued. ‘The script is being written.”

Though Scott was barely a teenager at the height of the Brat Pack, Lowe suggested his Parks and Recreation costar could make a cameo in the sequel.

“I would do anything. I could be a waiter at the restaurant,” Scott suggested.

“You should be the waiter who’s really just milking it. Like, you should have moved on but you kind of like hanging out,” Lowe replied.

This wasn’t the first time Lowe has talked about a St. Elmo’s Fire sequel. The project was first announced in June 2024, but he confirmed during a February appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live that it was in development.

“We’re putting together St. Elmo’s Fire 2. So we’re back working together…We’re gonna see what those people are doing at our ages now. This is a real thing,” Lowe said at the time. “I know. It’s great. It sounds like it could be a bit, but [you’d] also go, ‘Wait a minute, I’d see that.’ When we did the original, we were on the cover of Rolling Stone. Now we’ll be on the cover of AARP, but it’s still gonna be great.”