{"id":119630,"date":"2025-08-30T00:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119630\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T00:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:27:06","slug":"goonies-2-writer-says-script-is-moving-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/119630\/","title":{"rendered":"Goonies 2 writer says script is “moving in the right direction”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We here are\u00a0The A.V. Club\u2018s Newswire desk have been reporting on various rumors\u2014some more Quixotic than others\u2014about\u00a0a sequel to\u00a0The Goonies\u00a0getting made for more than a decade at this point<\/a>. Warner Bros. finally tipped things from \u201crampant, Feldman-heavy speculation\u201d into something like actual reality earlier this year<\/a>, though, when it announced that it had actually put said sequel into surprising, somewhat desperation-scented development. Now, the film\u2019s credited screenwriter has spoken up about progress on getting a script together forty years after the fact, saying he\u2019s about a draft and a half in, and things are \u201cmoving in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is according to\u00a0Deadline<\/a>, which chatted with screenwriter Potsy Ponciroli (probably best known for his 2021 Tim Blake Nelson Western\u00a0Old Henry) at the Venice Film Festival. Although in town to promote his new film Motor City, a \u201970s-set revenge thriller starring\u00a0Reacher\u2018s Alan Ritchson, Ponciroli was happy to assure skeptical audiences that\u00a0Goonies 2\u00a0was coming along, and does, in fact, need to exist. \u201cI know there\u2019s a lot of \u2018Do we need a new Goonies?’\u201d Ponciroli admitted. \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

And while we\u2019d argue that the story of\u00a0The Goonies\u00a0did\u00a0end\u2014it\u2019s the bit where a pirate ship unconvincingly sails out into the waters off Oregon, before being replaced by a dark screen with names scrolling on it\u2014we can\u2019t fault Ponciroli for his enthusiasm. The writer told reporters, \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 No director\u2014or cast, either former or returning, for that matter\u2014has been attached to the project, which Warner Bros. Discovery put into formal development back in February.<\/p>\n

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