“The Goonies ”stars Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton, and Joe Pantoliano shut down sequel rumors
The truffle shall not shuffle again.
Goonies never say die… and they're not saying "reunion" either.
Multiple cast members from The Goonies have denied rumors that The Goonies 2 is in the works, despite suggestions from one of their costars that the project might be underway.
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Jeff Cohen, Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Ke Huy Quan in 'The Goonies'After The Sun reported that Warner Bros. was developing a Goonies sequel, Corey Feldman, who played Clark "Mouth" Devereaux in the 1985 adventure classic, said he has zero information about a potential sequel.
"IS #GOONIES2 REAL?! EVERY1 IS ASKING...I CAN OFFICIALLY TELL U 100% NO! I HAV NO INFO THAT A SEQUEL IS IN THE WORX," he wrote on social media earlier this week.
On Friday, however, Sean Astin, who played Mikey Walsh in the original movie, posted a fake poster for a hypothetical sequel titled Goonies Are Good Enough. The poster even read, "A Steven Spielberg Film."
"It's our time. C'mon, Steven…," Astin wrote in his caption on X, suggesting that Spielberg is the reason the film has not yet begun production. Spielberg produced and wrote the story for the original movie, but Chris Columbus wrote the screenplay and the late Richard Donner directed it. It is unclear if Astin is calling on Spielberg to step into the director's chair for a follow-up.
That same day, Martha Plimpton, who played Stef Steinbrenner in the first film, insisted that the project does not exist. "People, there is no Goonies 2 script," she wrote on Instagram. "There is no one 'attached,' Spielberg is not directing, it's not real. What IS real is CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION AND VOTE!!!!"
Representatives for Warner Bros. and Spielberg did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.
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Joe Pantoliano, who played the adult antagonist Francis Fratelli in the original movie, also said there's no movement on a sequel, writing on Instagram on Saturday, "I think that's a hoax, The Goonies 2."
He did have his own idea for a follow-up project, though. "They're doing all of these documentaries now about people and past projects — I think they should do a Goonies doc!" he suggested. "Let's do a reality show about us Goonie actors and following us up until the 40th anniversary and then we do a big party. That's my idea."
The original Goonies starred Astin, Feldman, Jeff Cohen, and Ke Huy Quan as the titular quartet of tween Oregonian pals, with Josh Brolin, Kerri Green, and Plimpton as their older teen companions who reluctantly accompany them on a whirlwind treasure hunt to save their homes from foreclosure. The film made around $63 million at the domestic box office in 1985 and became one of the most beloved family films of the 1980s, eventually inspiring recent projects like Stranger Things, Super 8, and the forthcoming Star Wars series Skeleton Crew.
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At a virtual cast and crew reunion in 2020, Spielberg said he, Donner, and producer Lauren Shuler Donner had "a lot of conversations about" a potential sequel. "Every couple of years, we come up with an idea, but then it doesn't hold water," he said. "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 that we all made in the '80s. So, until we do, people are just gonna have to look at this one 100 times."
Quan expressed similar sentiments at the Golden Globes in 2023 when he won Best Supporting Actor for his role in Everything Everywhere All at Once. "Honestly, for the last 30 years, we've tried to do a Goonies 2," he said. "When I was much younger, I wished it would come to pass because that's the movie I thought I would need to make a career comeback. Honestly, we had numerous scripts, but there was not one script that felt like it would be up to what the original was."
He added, "I really don't know if there's going to be a Goonies 2. But I would be open to revisiting that character, Data, if there is an opportunity."
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