Film fans can expect a movie to follow up St Elmo’s Fire (Picture: Columbia/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock)

Rob Lowe has revealed that a sequel to St Elmo’s Fire is in development.

The 50-year-old actor starred as saxophonist Billy Hicks in the popular 1985 Brat Pack film that followed a group of graduates as they adjust to post-university life in the real world.

He has now admitted that a follow-up is on the way, even if it is only in the ‘early stages’ of development at present.

The West Wing star told Entertainment Tonight: ‘We’ve met with the studio and I have been talking about doing it for about four months. The ‘Brats’ documentary only added to the excitement around it.

‘But it’s very, very, very, very, very early stages. So we will see.’

In the classic film, Lowe starred alongside Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Andie MacDowell and Mare Winningham.

The film boasted a bumper crop of young talent, including Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore and Rob Lowe (Picture: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock)
Lowe has now revealed that the sequel is being developed (Picture: Getty)

These actors, alongside Anthony Michael Hall, were dubbed the ‘Brat Pack’ as part of a group of young actors who frequently starred opposite one another in coming-of-age movies in the 1980s.

The two biggest of these are usually considered St Elmo’s Fire, directed by Joel Schumacher, and John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club, which Hall starred in, with both releasing the same year.

Other films often associated with the term – a play on the Rat Pack from the 1950s and ‘60s – and starring various combinations of these actors, include Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and Oxford Blues.

Just two years ago, McCarthy – who played journalist Kevin Dolenz – shared that he wanted to reconnect with ‘all’ of his former co-stars because they had all gone their ‘separate ways’ since the film was released.

Its actors were collectively considered part of the ‘Brat Pack’ (Picture: Columbia/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock)

He told Hollywood Life: ‘We’ve all gone our separate ways. It’s been so long ago, and yet we’re still so indelibly linked, certainly in a way that I’m not with other actors I did movies with 10 years ago, 20 years ago, you know what I mean?

‘It’s something we’ve carried through in common even though we don’t know each other in a certain way.’

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Estevez (L, pictured with Ally Sheedy and Lowe) has previously protested the label (Picture: Columbia/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock)

The 61-year-old continued: ‘I don’t know if the other guys do know each other, but I’d love to see all of them again. But that just tells you I’m getting old. I’d love to see them all again and sit down and be like, “Dude, what was that?” I think that’d be kind of great.’

However, Estevetz has been publicly less-than-enthusiastic about their moniker.

‘That [term] will be on my tombstone,” he pointed out to The Guardian in 2010.

‘It’s annoying because Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Matt Damon have worked together more than any of us have. We just made two movies and somehow it morphed into something else.’

Moore was a huge rising star in the 1980s before her career stalled in the latter half of the following decade (Picture: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock)
She had made a comeback this year with a gruesome and widely-praised horror film (Picture: Getty)

Demi Moore, who also starred in Brat Pack-ish films Wisdom and About Last Night, made her movie comeback earlier this year after a series of flops in the 1990s derailed her career as a leading lady.

She starred in award-winning body horror The Substance, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival in May, and will release in UK cinemas in September.

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