Action-Adventure Richard Donner announces Goonies Sequel

[Pink Ranger]

So Chunk is a supervillain pimp now.

 

[terry78]

How well did we expect them all to age anyway?

 

[Drizzle]

How well did we expect them all to age anyway?

Kerri Green seems to have aged the best of them. I had a huge crush on her in The Goonies and Lucas when I was a kid and that reunion video reignited it.

Also, it's been six years since Brolin was cast in the MCU and I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that Thanos was a Goonie.

 

[DarkKnight88]

 

[Doctor Jones]

I really hope this doesn't happen. I don't need more 80's revivals thrown at me. Maybe you could do something interesting of children being grown up but the cynic in me very much doubts that. It will be this over reverent movie treating the adventure like it was the greatest thing to happen in their lives.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

The Goonies cast have aged very well. I’m still on the fence if they should ever do a sequel or not. Like Spielberg said, the bar is set really high

Nice to see that the actor who played Data is getting back into acting. Would be cool to see him back as Shorty in Indiana Jones 5

 

[chamber-music]

If they have a really good script then I would be down for a sequel. I think they kicked around the idea of the original cast's kids being the new Goonies who go on an adventure to save their home town before/parents livelihoods in a sequel.

Lawyer Chunk is pretty funny irl.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Sawyer]

It’s still completely absurd to me that the second Ke Huy Quan won his Oscar, people started campaigning for him to reprise roles he played when he was a ****ing preteen.

 

[Still Wynning]

This is totally because of Skeleton Crew and Ke Huy Quan’s recent resurgence and popularity, isn’t it?

Considering where we are now in the societal, political and cultural landscape as a country and have completely embraced just looking back and rehashing old things because they’re familiar and bring us comfort, instead of looking forward and creating novel things, this isn’t really surprising, and kind of depressing. We, especially Hollywood, really have never learn anything.

Not that we didn’t have any of it before, but we’re officially and completely in the era of peak nostalgia and rejecting anything new. Expect this to happen a whole lot more in the coming years with a lot of media.

Let’s just hope that nothing happens to Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale and Hollywood gets the idea to make Back to the Future 4. Because, you know they will if they ever get the chance and they’re just waiting for the creators of the series to kick the bucket just so they can milk that cash cow for all it’s worth.

 

[Drizzle]

Goonies 2 is a concept that could maybe work under the right circumstances, especially since most of the kids are still active in Hollywood (behind the scenes in Chunk's case). It feels like one of those things that's been kicking around for over 20 years, since the days when Sean Astin was a bigger name than Josh Brolin so I'll believe it when I see it.

It’s still completely absurd to me that the second Ke Huy Quan won his Oscar, people started campaigning for him to reprise roles he played when he was a ****ing preteen.

I'm 100% certain that had he won the Oscar a year earlier or if Indy 5 happened a year later, they would have at least shoehorned a cameo from him in there.

Not that we didn’t have any of it before, but we’re officially and completely in the era of peak nostalgia and rejecting anything new. Expect this to happen a whole lot more in the coming years with a lot of media.

We've been in this era for a while now. It kind of reached a boiling point around the middle to end of the 2010s with The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, the Disney live action remakes, etc. and it's been kind of downhill from there.

 

[Still Wynning]

We've been in this era for a while now. It kind of reached a boiling point around the middle to end of the 2010s with The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, the Disney live action remakes, etc. and it's been kind of downhill from there.

That’s why I said that it wasn’t new and it used to be about a normal amount, but lately it’s gotten to the point where it’s reached absurd levels of saturation that it feels like pretty much everything is either part of an established franchise, a sequel, a remake and or a reboot.

If it wasn’t as pervasive as it is now, it wouldn’t bother me, but it just seems like the more and more unique and original films fail, the more and more Hollywood gets cold feet and becomes even more risk averse due to unnecessary ever increasing high budgets preventing certain films from making their money back. They’re full of white, old, dumb, reactionary troglodytes who, instead of looking introspectively, admitting fault, taking accountability and responsibility, realistically assessing the issues and pivoting accordingly, they just deflect and put the blame on A, B or C and dig themselves even deeper, because selling films as a mass produced product made solely to cater to the masses and make money has become the primary goal over making quality films, instead of just a part of it.

And, now that the U.S. has decided to vote back in the oldest, dumbest, most reactionary troglodyte of them all with connections to a bunch of other old, dumb and reactionary troglodytes in the industry, I am worried the problem is going to get even worse then it already has and the number of risky and original films diminishes to the point that almost none of it will be original anymore.

If Hollywood didn’t spend and pump hundreds of millions of dollars into all of their big tentpole films and worried about whether or not they would make their money back, and instead found a way to trim budgets so more risks could be taken and filmmakers could take just focus on making the best film possible, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation right now.

 

[DarkKnight88]

'The Goonies' Cast Reunites After 40 Years to Celebrate Ke Huy Quan at His Hand and Footprint Ceremony in L.A.

Members of the cast of "The Goonies" came together to support Ke Huy Quan as he was honored in a hand and footprint ceremony at TCL Chinese Theater in L.A.

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It’s really too bad Richard Donner didn’t live long enough to see Ke Huy Quan’s comeback.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[DarkKnight88]

 

[Drizzle]

Corey Feldman, what's going on?

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Corey Feldman, what's going on?

Life.



Nah but for real, Feldman's been through some sh**.