Goonies never say die, and apparently, neither do sequels. Earlier this year, news broke that after decades of back-and-forth about a follow-up to the fan-favorite 1985 film, The Goonies, Warner Bros. had hired a writer to pen a script. Now, the writer has provided an update that makes it seem like the sequel is getting closer to actually happening.
Speaking to Deadline at the Venice Film Festival, Goonies 2 writer Potsy Ponciroli provided the following update. “I have turned in a first draft, which was very well received, and I’m on a second draft and I’m about 95% done with that so we’re moving in the right direction,” he said.
More importantly, he also offered this perspective on what many feel about this movie. “I know there’s a lot of ‘Do we need a new Goonies’,” Ponciroli said, “but I’m the biggest fan of the original. It’s my favorite movie of all time. I’d never ‘redo’ The Goonies. To me, it was a story that never ended so this is the movie I want to see as one of its biggest fans.”
That Ponciroli is such a fan is good to hear because some, such as original star Josh Brolin, don’t think a sequel is worth doing. “I love The Goonies, [but] it’s been 41 years. Let it lay,” the actor told io9 while promoting Weapons. “I mean, no, I love the idea, but I don’t know. If they made one with different kids, then it becomes a different thing, and I think it taints the original one. I think people get excited, and people who were in the original movie, they get excited about being able to work with that group again because it was such an amazing experience. So do I think it should be done? I don’t know, man. I love it just standing like it does.”
There’s no word if Brolin’s character, or any of the original characters, are in Ponciroli’s script and without a director attached, things are still a ways off. But for fans of the Richard Donner-directed, Steven Spielberg-produced, and Chris Columbus-written kids adventure, this is the most encouraging news in 40 years.
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