{"id":106127,"date":"2025-08-29T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106127\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T19:49:07","slug":"the-goonies-2-is-sailing-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106127\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Goonies 2’ Is Sailing Closer to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goonies never say die, and apparently<\/a>, neither do sequels. Earlier this year<\/a>, news broke that after decades of back-and-forth about a follow-up to the fan-favorite<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Deadline<\/a> at the Venice Film Festival, Goonies 2 writer Potsy Ponciroli provided the following update. \u201cI have turned in a first draft, which was very well received, and I\u2019m on a second draft and I\u2019m about 95% done with that so we\u2019re moving in the right direction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

More importantly, he also offered this perspective on what many feel about this movie. \u201cI know there\u2019s a lot of \u2018Do we need a new Goonies\u2019,\u201d Ponciroli said, \u201cbut I\u2019m the biggest fan of the original. It\u2019s my favorite movie of all time. I\u2019d never \u2018redo\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

That Ponciroli is such a fan is good to hear because some, such as original star Josh Brolin, don\u2019t think a sequel is worth doing. \u201cI love The Goonies, [but] it\u2019s been 41 years. Let it lay,\u201d the actor told io9 while<\/a> promoting Weapons. \u201cI mean, no, I love the idea, but I don\u2019t 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\u2019t know, man. I love it just standing like it does.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no word if Brolin\u2019s character, or any of the original characters, are in Ponciroli\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goonies never say die, and apparently, neither do sequels. Earlier this year, news broke that after decades of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337,60534,60535,60536],"class_list":{"0":"post-106127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-potsy-ponciroli","13":"tag-the-goonies","14":"tag-the-goonies-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}