According to Deadline, Rob Lowe has confirmed that a sequel script for the beloved 1985 Brat Pack ensemble drama St. Elmo's Fire is actively in development — and he's personally pushing to get it across the finish line.
Why This Has Fancasters Fired Up
For anyone who grew up watching Lowe, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, and Mare Winningham navigate post-college life in Washington D.C., this news lands like a nostalgia bomb. A sequel raises the most delicious kind of casting question: do you bring back the original ensemble — now in their 60s — and let audiences see what happened to Billy, Jules, Alec, and the rest of the gang? Or do you introduce a new generation of young strivers and use the originals as a framing device, passing the torch to fresh faces?
This is exactly the kind of two-track casting puzzle that myCast was built for. There are roles to fill either way — returning characters whose actors may or may not come back, and potentially a whole new ensemble of twenty-somethings ready to inherit St. Elmo's Bar. The debate is wide open, and fans should absolutely be weighing in.
What myCast Fans Think of Rob Lowe
Here's where it gets interesting. Rob Lowe is one of the more creatively deployed actors in the myCast community — fans have suggested him for an impressive 2,268 roles across the platform, which tells you everything about how versatile his fanbase sees him. His top fan-cast picks reveal a playful range: 31 votes have him voicing Horton The Elephant in a Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who! reboot, 28 votes slot him into the Stranger Things universe as the menacing Billy Hargrove — a role that would lean hard into his ability to play charming-but-dangerous — and 22 votes place him in a franchise-actor wishlist story.
What's notable is that fans clearly still see Lowe as an active leading presence, not a legacy cameo waiting to happen. The Billy Hargrove suggestion in particular is telling: that's a physically demanding, dramatically intense role, and fans are still putting Lowe in that conversation. If the myCast community has this much enthusiasm for casting him in unrelated projects, imagine the energy once a dedicated St. Elmo's Fire sequel story goes live on the platform.
Right now, there's no dedicated myCast fan-cast story for the sequel — which means someone reading this could be the first to create it. The original film's ensemble is a fancaster's dream: seven distinct characters, decades of imagined life experience to write into, and a built-in audience of Gen X fans who have very strong opinions about who should show up.