It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

Hall joked that the two were "in Africa with Dave Chappelle. After a series of minor roles in the 1990s he starred as Microsoft's Bill Gates in the 1999 television film Pirates of Silicon Valley. He was cast as Brian Johnson "the brain" in the quintessential teen film The Breakfast Club co-starring Emilio Estevez Judd Nelson Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald.

Hall's next movies with Hughes were the teen classics The Breakfast Club and Weird Science both in 1985. During its run the show was one of the highest-rated cable television series.