Rob Lowe & Demi Moore Are “Actively Trying” For ‘St. Elmo’s Fire 2’

Nearly 40 years later, St. Elmo’s Fire is continuing to burn bright for its stars.

After first teasing a sequel in July, Rob Lowe recently gave an update that the followup to the 1985 coming-of-age film is “moving along” as he and co-star Demi Moore are in contact about the film.

“We’re very much in contact now because we are actively trying to do [the] St. Elmo’s Fire sequel,” said Lowe on Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast.

“It’s going a little more slowly than I would have liked,” he added. “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.”

The original Joel Schumacher film starred Lowe, 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.

“I think now, the theme of St. Elmo’s Fire today is that it’s never too late for happiness,” explained Lowe. “Our kids are out of school and maybe some of us have been divorced and maybe somebody has been falling ill — all the things that you deal with as you get to our ages, this is an opportunity to explore those themes with characters that people know and love.

“And I think as opposed to just a money run, let’s just reboot it because people know the title of it. 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,” he added.

The cast appeared in McCarthy’s documentary Brats earlier this year, 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.

Lowe previously 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.