Riverdale Season 3 Casts Breakfast Club Star For Flashback Episode

In Season 3, Riverdale is jumping back in time for an episode filled with very interesting casting changes. The fourth episode of the upcoming season, "The Midnight Club," will flashback to when the parents of the show's main characters were high school students themselves.

It was previously revealed that the show's younger cast would step up to play the teenage versions of their characters' parents. That means KJ Apa exchanging his red hair for a brown to play a young Luke Perry and Lili Reinhart channeling her inner Shely Briggs from Twin Peaks to portray a teenage Madchen Amick.

Now, though, the episode that's taking heavy inspiration from The Breakfast Club has made its most inspiring casting choice yet. Warner Bros. TV has announced that original Breakfast Club star Anthony Michael Hall will play Principal Featherhead in the episode. According to a character description, Featherhead is "the longstanding principal at Riverdale High who gets caught up in the game the teenagers are playing in an unexpected way."

It's hard to argue with this particular piece of casting. Seeing Hall go from the student he played in the film to the teacher stuck in the middle of whatever chaos is unfolding should be fun to watch. A full plot synopsis for the episode has yet to be released; however, viewers will learn about some of the dark secrets the parents of Riverdale have been hiding from their children all of their lives.

Riverdale returns to The CW on Wednesday, October 10, at 8 PM ET. The episode "The Midnight Club" will air on Wednesday, November 7. Be sure to check out all of our Riverdale Season 3 spoilers and teases.