A Beloved Comedian Was Apparently Fired From The Breakfast Club — cinemablend.com

According to an excerpt from Kirk Honeycutt’s upcoming biography, John Hughes: A Life in Film, published in Vanity Fair, the almost mythical idea of Rick Moranis’ involvement in The Breakfast Club took the form of the character, Carl the Janitor. While Hughes was initially "ecstatic" to have Moranis in the cast, the actor would apparently take an egregious creative liberty, reinventing the character with an over-the-top Russian accent. Honeycutt’s book recounts the story as told to him by co-producer, Michelle Manning, which implicates producer, Ned Tanen as being responsible for the canning of Moranis. As Tanen reportedly told Hughes:

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