The Goonies Sequel Announced

‘The Goonies’ will be the latest film to get a legacy sequel, with Warner Bros. Discovery announcing that they will be bringing the franchise back after almost 40 years.

Steven Spielberg, who produced the 1985 classic, will have a producing role, while writing duties will be assigned to Potsy Ponciroli.

Kristie Macosko Krieger and Holly Bario will also produce for Amblin Entertainment with original script writer Chris Columbus.

Lauren Shuler Donner will executive produce. No plot or cast members were announced. 

The original story directed by Richard Donner, focused on a group of five children, played by Josh Brolin, Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Ke Huy Quan and Martha Plimpton as they tried to find a treasure map to ancient treasure.

The film garnered a cult following, and in 2017 was selected to be preserved in the National Registry by the Library of Congress.

This is not the first time a sequel to the film has been attempted. 

Spielberg answered a question as to why a sequel hasn’t happened during a virtual reunion with the cast and crew during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Chris and Dick and I and Lauren [Shuler Donner] have had a lot of conversations about it, and every couple of years we come up with an idea, but then it doesn’t hold water. The problem is the bar that all of you raised on this genre. I don’t think we’ve really successfully been able to find an idea that is better than The Goonies we made in the ‘80s.”

Astin and Corey Feldman presented their ideas to Donner, but they were rejected, citing that it would be too expensive to produce.