Andrew McCarthy to Reunite with Brat Packers Demi Moore, Rob Lowe and More for Hulu DocumentaryBrats

The cast of ‘St. Elmo’s Fire.'.Photo:Columbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

Columbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

TheBrat Packis making its long-awaited return to the screen, over 40 years after the group of young actors sat at the top of Hollywood’s totem pole.

Andrew McCarthygathered some of his former costars for a new documentary set to air on Hulu later this year, titledBrats, he announced in anInstagram post.

The documentary will see McCarthy, 61, travel nationwide to reunite with some of his former Brat Pack members, includingRob LoweandDemi Moore, perDeadline.

In his Instagram post, McCarthy said it was “an amazing experience to reunite with so many of the old crew."

Cast of ‘St. Elmo’s Fire.Columbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

Bratswill also see McCarthy — who became an acclaimed travel writer and dabbled in television directing after his run as a Brat Pack member — sit down with David Blum, theNew York Magazinewriter who crafted the group’s nickname in 1985.

Hepreviously told PEOPLE that he “wasn’t even there”when Blum spent the night with some of the actors and coined the term. “It was just like boom, there it is. And I recoiled from it. The term was cast in a very pejorative way. And the last thing you want in Hollywood is to be boxed in," he said.

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Actors Rob Lowe,Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy and Judd Nelson on set of the Columbia Pictures movie “St. Elmo’s Fire” in 1985.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

In a statement about the documentary, McCarthy said, “The Brat Pack has cast a long shadow over my life and career. After all these years, I was curious to see how it had affected my fellow Brat Pack members. What I found was surprising — and liberating.”

The film will explore “how the label caused a frenzy and impacted each of [the actors], personally and professionally,” per Deadline.

Andrew McCarthy and Emilio Estevez on set of the Columbia Pictures movie “St. Elmo’s Fire” in 1985.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

The forthcoming Hulu documentary is not the first time McCarthy — who made his big-screen debut in 1985’sSt. Elmo’s Fire— has delved into the history of the famous group of actors.

He published a memoir,Brat: An ’80s Story, in 2021, which was described as a “revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction and masculinity,” per the book’s description.

“I’ve carried the brat pack around with me all these years,” McCarthy told PEOPLE in a statement ahead of the memoir’s release.  “I thought it was time I took a good look under that rock. What I found surprised me.”

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He’s also admitted that despite some struggles — “I couldn’t watch movies I was in for years,” he told PEOPLE last year — “acting saved my life when I was 15 in many ways.”

“I discovered acting in the high school play and that was it. And the course of my life was set and it saved me,” McCarthy said.

Bratswill stream sometime in 2024.

source: people.com