“It’s going a little more slowly than I would have liked,” the actor said.
Rob Lowehas a lot of ideas for the long-gestatingSt.
Elmo’s Firesequel and he’s sharing them with costarDemi Moore.
Andrew McCarthy, Mare Winningham, Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez in ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ in 1985.Columbia/courtesy Everett
But that’s a good thing because we’re trying to find the right writer and the right story.
But all of the actors, everybody is on board.
Everybody is excited."
Rob Lowe in 2024.Roy Rochlin/Getty
“Because you never want to diminish.”
TheParks and Recreationstar said that he thinks the originalSt.
Elmo’s Fireconnected with audiences because of its honesty in depicting the perils of young adulthood.
Will that last in our lives?
Where are we headed now that we’re really adults?"
Elmo’ssequel will maintain that honest spirit.
“I think now, the theme ofSt.
Elmo’s Firetoday is that it’s never too late for happiness,” he said.
I actually think there’s a lot to be said about why we’re doing it.
And I’m super excited about it.
Hopefully we can pull it off."
“As you remember, at the end ofSt.
Elmo’s Fire, he got on a bus to New York with his saxophone,” he said.
My take is that Billy got there and played the sax solo on Billy Ocean’s ‘Caribbean Queen.’
That was his high water mark.
The question is, what became of him after that?
I have a couple really, really good pitches about that."
“He clearly was suffering with addiction,” he said of his character.
“And what became of that?
And obviously being 34 years sober now, I have a question: Is Billy sober?”
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