{"id":119068,"date":"2025-08-29T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119068\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:58:08","slug":"script-moving-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119068\/","title":{"rendered":"Script “Moving In The Right Direction”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: The sequel to Richard Donner\u2019s \u201980s classic The Goonies<\/a> is \u201cmoving in the right direction\u201d, according to its writer Potsy Ponciroli.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking during a Deadline-moderated event at the Venice Film Festival, Ponciroli was asked about the status of the movie and said: \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<\/p>\n

\n\tPonciroli said he wasn\u2019t immune to inevitable online misgivings about a sequel to such an adored classic, but said there are few bigger fans of the original than himself and that he would treat it with utmost care.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI know there\u2019s a lot of \u2018do we need a new Goonies\u2019,\u201d he said, \u201cbut I\u2019m the biggest fan of the original, it\u2019s my favourite 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

\n\tHe added he wasn\u2019t sure when the movie would be moving into production. A director has yet to be revealed.<\/p>\n

\n\tPonciroli is in Venice with new Alan Ritchson action-thriller Motor City, having also been at the festival four years ago with feature debut Old Henry.<\/p>\n

\n\tWarner Bros, the studio behind the original Goonies, is also behind the sequel. Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger and Holly Bario will produce for Amblin Entertainment alongside Chris Columbus, with Lauren Shuler Donner exec producing. Spielberg and Columbus penned the original.<\/p>\n

\n\tReleased 40 years ago, the original introduced the world to a group of misfit kids \u2014 Mikey, Mouth, Data, Chunk, and others \u2014 who embark on a treasure hunt to save their homes from foreclosure. The journey takes them through underground tunnels, booby traps, and encounters with the villainous Fratelli crime family, all leading to the discovery of the long-lost treasure of the pirate One-Eyed Willy.<\/p>\n

\n\tA cornerstone of \u201980s pop culture, the film launched the careers of young actors such as Josh Brolin, Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton, and Quan. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe idea of a\u00a0Goonies\u00a0sequel has been floating around for decades, but despite persistent rumors and interest from fans and some of the original cast, has not yet come to fruition.\u00a0Ponciroli was revealed as writer by us at the start of the year and that was last we heard. Things seem to be heating up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The sequel to Richard Donner\u2019s \u201980s classic The Goonies is \u201cmoving in the right direction\u201d, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,76826],"class_list":["post-119068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-the-goonies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}