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‘Goonies’ Sequel An ‘Absolute Certainty,’ Says Astin

Published by Brian Jacks on Monday, October 8, 2007 at 2:45 am.

Back in August, the “Goonies” rumor mill went into overdrive when Corey Feldman revealed to MTV News that talks had resumed for a possible animated sequel to the classic 80s flick. Now his co-star Sean Astin has weighed in, exclaiming that as far as he’s concerned, “Goonies 2” is an “absolute certainty.”

“The writing’s on the wall when they’re releasing the ["Goonies"] DVD in such numbers,” enthused the fan-favorite actor, who garnered acclaim in such films as “Rudy” and “The Lord of the Rings” and is now appearing in the baseball epic “The Final Season.”

According to Feldman, numerous plotlines are floating around, with his favorite involving the children of the original Goonies embarking on an adventure of their own. That idea’s a home run for Astin, who says the real-life growth of the actors should factor heavily into a “Goonies 2.”

“Steven [Spielberg] and Dick [Donner] and all the powers that be … they really feel like the thing that made the movie strong was that it was about kids, so they really want to make the next movie about kids…the next generation of Goonies. And they’ve had a hard time tackling that.”

Like Feldman, Astin sees the passing of the torch concept to be a logical progression for the franchise. “I have three children,” he said, “and Corey’s got a kid now [too]. So as we now all have kids who are coming into the age that we were when we made the movie, it’s more likely to me that they’ll figure out how to design a story that will satisfy the older audience in terms of connecting with the original 1985 Goonies, and then [also] create this new thing.”

While Astin admits it’ll be difficult to recapture the magic, he’s confident that the “creative lightning” will strike that allows the project to move forward. “I remain as open-minded and willing to participate as I have ever been,” he declared.

50 Responses to “‘Goonies’ Sequel An ‘Absolute Certainty,’ Says Astin”

Bethany says:

1:51 on 10/08

God no! please don't! Stop ruining everyone's good memories of classic movies by trying to recreate them. Get some new ideas. God, you suck!
BubbaCoop says:

3:51 on 10/08

Interesting. Feldman is already doing a sequel to The Lost Boys.
GooniesFan says:

4:36 on 10/09

Cut 'em some slack. If the project IS happening (as opposed to an actor just hyping the possibility for press), then in the hands of Spielberg and Donner it's got incredible opportunities. For anyone over the age of 30, THE GOONIES is an awesome memory. I'm sure Donner and Spielberg hear about it all the time from fans. So the last thing they'd do is get involved with a GOONIES 2 - TOKYO DRIFT type of thing. It would answer why this thing seems to have been talked about forever yet never greenlighted.

If it does happen, and they make sure to involve the now older cast in some way, that would rock. Personally, I say scrap the kids. Make the thing about the kids now grown up. We've all had friendships from our youth that seemed life-lasting at the time, yet 25 years later, we haven't seen those people in a quarter century. Yet our memories of them and that time stay as important and pure as they can be.

What if we were all given the chance to meet up again and go through another adventure like that with kids, mortgages, troubled marriages and a life time of crappy adult experiences behind us?

THAT would be hilarious.

Please make it about the adults, guys. You'd have a huge winner there and could set up the possibility of GOONIES 3 with the cast's (fictional) kids.

Just my two cents.
April says:

7:50 on 10/09

Feldman is not doing a sequel to Lost Boys because it has already been done. Next time watch the entire episode of The Two Coreys where he tells Corey Haim that it went straight to DVD and he declined to be in it.

I think that if Speilberg is behind it and they get most of the original cast back and make it about the adult with their own children then they could have a winner. We have the movie on DVD and sharing it with our own children has been a joy. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid and so I would love to follow their stories again.
April Thomas says:

8:00 on 10/09

Corey Feldman did not do a sequel to the Lost Boys because they already did one and he declined! Please get your facts straight before commenting!

I agree that if Speilberg and most of the original cast were in it, I certainly would be interested in seeing how their lives evolved after the original ended. Josh Brolin, Sean Astin, and Corey Feldman, are just a few of the names that I grew up watching and laughing with and now with the DVD my husband and I enjoy it all over again with our children. To see them pass the torch to their children in a movie would be a rather touching time for me, I must admit, but only if it is done right. Please take care with it.
April says:

8:22 on 10/09

Sorry, I thought my first reply screwed up somehow. Didn't mean to send two.
Marissa says:

8:30 on 10/09

Watch an episode of The Two Coreys?...uh... No thanks, I'll leave that to you, Spanky. ;)
Mariah says:

3:27 on 10/10

At one point, I would have said yes. Now, I think it's too late. I mean, I understand it owuld be a helpful way to keep the original going (I mean, people do not show their kids good movies like that anymore, why else is Back to the Future dying?) but this is not the way to do it.
Ginsu Victim says:

7:58 on 10/10

Just leave The Goonies alone! There's no need for a sequel. Plus, if it isn't about the original kids, it's not "The Goonies" in the first place.
Invest that money in a Miyazaki film, instead.
DennyD says:

8:04 on 10/10

I think it would be nice - seeing the old cast having to save thier kids or something. But what ruins it is the fact it is animated... blah. Cartoons suck.
Baxter says:

8:17 on 10/10

Wasn't "Goonies 2" for Nintendo the sequel?
bigsofty says:

10:00 on 10/10

Final Season with sean astin is a great film go see it. :):):)
Chris Wyatt says:

10:54 on 10/10

what they could do is have the grown up goonies get back together in search of the ship that sailed off at the end of the original. (put in a story that it sank and no one was ever able to find it. Another one of Willy's tricks) As they are searching, the young data or Mickey want to go, but the parents won't let them of course. As they leave, one of the boys finds something that was left behind by the search crew and decide to embark on their own journey of course resulting in the finding of the ship just seconds before the baddies catch up to them.
Susanne says:

12:11 on 10/10

I think a sequel with the original cast would be unbelieveble. They are all still major cult faves and this could reinvigorate some awesome actors' careers. How bad do you want to see Kerri Green in something new?! Lucas is one of my all-time faves! I'm a nerd. I know.
Michael says:

12:26 on 10/10

Actually, as episodes of the show with the Coreys was filmed months in advance, things DID go through with Lost Boys 2 and both Coreys were then asked to be in the film. However, there was some hooplah (they say it was immigration laws as the film was being shot in Canada) and Haim was kept out of it. The word is that Feldman stayed in.
Animated Pirate says:

12:31 on 10/10

People, people! They're talking about an ANIMATED sequel. They can do a heck of a lot more (and spare us from any new horrible child actors on-screen) and still create an altogether new angle! It doesn't have to be pirates this time. They're not "re-making" the film, they're talking about an altogether new story line!

I love the Goonies-- and if they have something that involves the kids of the Goonies in an animated form, I'm for it. Just so long as they don't have a new "Sloth"-- one horribly abused man-child is enough.
Mike P says:

2:43 on 10/10

Well, at least now we can see which Walsh boy, Mikey or Brandon, ends up with Andy.
Adam says:

3:58 on 10/10

I am a fan of the idea. Would be similar to Stephen King's "It." All the kids come back as adults.
ANIMATED?!? - Nooooooo! says:

4:41 on 10/10

For the sweet love of Jesus...Please, NO! That has GOT to be an internet rumor. Please. If you're going to make another GOONIES, they have got to go live action. I can't imagine Donner and Spielberg making this thing, with all the older fans out there raving about it for years, an animated thing. No one will remember the voices and no one will care. From a studio standpoint, the draw would be older ticket buyers going and bringing their kids to hopefully relive and share the magic with them. DVD sales would then also be greatly increased by those who haven't bought one yet snagging one afterward to show their kids the first story. Animation will send this thing straight to DVD. Where's this animation news coming from?
Echo says:

4:57 on 10/10

The Goonies should be left alone. If you want to make a new movie for kids, then make it original (ex. The Last Mimzy). Don't make The Goonies a franchise; it will ultimately fail because we all have special memories of the original and you will *NEVER* be able to satisfy everybody by "re-capturing the magic". It hasn't happened with any other movie and it won't happen with this one.

Just enjoy the Goonies for what it is and remember: Goonies never die!
Ajphux says:

7:38 on 10/10

No 'Goonies' sequel for me, please. I saw the original in the theater during it's first run, and I didn't much care for it then (though I would like to know what happened to Kerri Green. I thought she was terrific in 'Lucas').
Nitrox819 says:

11:08 on 10/10

I have to Agree that a cartoon would not be the way to go. I would like to see the actors from the first all grown up and their kids being the new goonies. Maybe the adult goonies have to get together to save their kids they way they had to save their parents before. Maybe a one eye willy cameo but it should be a new story line all together. I like the idea, if its good you can add it to the must see list, if not, it doesn't have to ruin the first you just don't watch it again. Like Highlander two, sucked, but the first one is still good.
terah says:

1:22 on 10/11

vito the animated goonies!
have you seen the new tmnt movie?
lame
i would love to see the original goonies
its us who spend the money anyways, not the kids
Ceronomus says:

10:50 on 10/11

Hey April?

http://imdb.com/title/tt1031254/

Lost Boys 2: The Tribe

Feldmen is indeed returning and starring in it. It releases next year.
Shiloh says:

11:48 on 10/11

I think that an animated version of goonies is weird. I think it would be cooler to see all the actors as adults do something in a sequel. Unlike one of the other comments, I don't like the idea of it being the grown up actor's kids who are the new goonies. That sounds cheesy. But the original Goonies did rock! I still know most every line to that film
Romain says:

1:29 on 10/11

I loved the first Goonies! This is the movie I saw in theater for the first time. I think a sequel could be great, involving both kids and the original actors. What about a story where the kids find what their parents did when they are youngs and trying to find where the pirate boat flew away (maybe during a vacation of the the parent where one of the team is expecting to find the boat in the caribbean islands for ex and need the money remaining in the boat to, I don't know, acheive something). We could also see the remaining member of the italian familly or a team of modern pirate who also want that money.
Maybe the youngs could try to find this boat, their parent see them in danger and try to find them and go in the same quest as the firt film. The kids could be chased by their parents (who are trying to find them) and the moden pirates (who want to find the boat and the money). That could be fun in my opinion.
But please, no animated serie!
(Sorry for my poor english ... I'm french)
Venus2302 says:

9:04 on 10/12

Goonies was and always will be my favorite movie. I have qouted that movie soooo many times...It is actually a part of me. AND I HAVE SOO MANY GREAT MEMMORIES WATCHING IT.!!!
Rod "Rojira" says:

9:35 on 10/13

I always thought it would be good if in the sequel the kids of the original Goonies are longing to leave Astoria because they feel it's a dull and boring place to live. They don't appreciate it like their parents do.

The original Goonies decide to take their kids on some sort of adventure, like a camping trip or something similar as a last attempt to convince their kids that living where they are isn't such a bad thing.

Of course the camping trip is just the catalyst for the adventure they all end up embarking on. What that adventure is I'm not sure but at the end the original Goonies would pass the torch to their kids.

But I'd rather them not make a sequel at all unless they strike upon a screenplay that does the original justice and will not displease the fans.
Ozz says:

4:25 on 10/13

The ship that got released should be sunk, and one of the now parents (original goonies) works on or in the sea as a job. One of the kids finds something that the parent should and their kids go out searching for it.

Or

Another connection to one-eyed-willy should be found, that the new kids try to find.

There needs to be a reason (a different one)why the kids need to explore which ever plotline is used.
tacos says:

8:33 on 10/14

"I mean, everyone and their parents went lookin for it back in the day... what was his name, One-eyed-willy."
John123 says:

8:09 on 10/15

What if a non-animated sequel begins with adult Goonies, some single, some married, some divorced, and their bored children leaving their same old homes in Astoria for a Goonies Reunion Cruise to Alaska? The cruise ship sails out of Astoria with two familiar fugitives working in the galley, Jake vigorously carving ice sculptures and Francis resentfully folding animal-shaped napkins. Adventures take place throughout the huge ship and when they put in at Skagway. The Goonies choose a tour of an historic gold mine for their excursion and the Fratellis are not far behind. Needless to say, they stumble upon a cache of gold. Haven't figured out how One-eyed Willie fits into the story.
Sammy says:

7:15 on 10/16

In response to shiloh I agree with you and everyone else about the animated Goonies. Just not right. But I think the only way to actually have to adults in the movie at all would be for the "new" Goonies to be their kids, or some relative of theirs, it's the only logical way to tie the adults and the kids to the film. Otherwise they're just a bunch of weird older men who follow kids on adventures.

Besides... cheesey kinda works for the Goonies.
Barbrady says:

10:57 on 10/17

Simple solution to the script / tying it into the origional movie - The original Goonies find out that the Fratelli brothers are up for parole. They appear at the parole hearing (along with at least one of their kids).

During the parole hearing, one of the Fratellis informs his son (why not?) that their mother (god rest her soul) stashed away a boatload of money from her days as a rum-runner, and when they get out they just have to find it.

The Goonie-kid who was in attendance overhears this conversation. He worries that the Fratellis will use the money to get back at the kids who sent them to prison, and so he recruits the other kids of the Goonies to help him find Ma Fratelli's lost loot. They end up racing against the next generation of Fratellis, as the Fratelli son doesn't want to wait for his pop to get out of prison to get the money.

Making matters more interesting, some or all of the original Goonies try to follow their kids, only to discover that treasure hunting is a lot easier when you're a kid.

That's what I'd do.
Gouchi says:

7:30 on 10/18

If you have seen childhood favorite/all- around classic The Goonies, you surely have heard the hauntingly- beautiful film score composed by Dave Grusin.

For years, fans have been clamoring for a legitimate release with all of the rollicking action themes,gentle, refelective themes, and tender love motifs they have relished since childhood.

Are you with The Goonies ? Do you want to see The Goonies complete filmscore released to the eager hands of fans for the very first time ?

You can sign the petition here :
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/gooniesnvrsaydie

We have opened a website, you can check here :
http://gooniesnvrsaydie.googlepages.com/index.html

And you can send some words to Varese :
http://gooniesnvrsaydie.googlepages.com/letter.html

Thank you very much, best regards.

Goonies never say die!
Colleen Kramm says:

10:44 on 10/24

Between the ages of 10-12 years old, I have probably seen Goonies over 1000 times. That is a modest and low estimate! What a great movie! I always imagined the Goonies growing up, leaving Astoria with families of their own. Maybe one or two stay behind. Their children all know "the story" about their parent's tales from yesteryear, but never really thought much of it and thought they were old and unknowing of what today's kids have to deal with. It isn't until they are visiting over Christmas, that the children find out first hand why Astoria is so special to their parents and grandparents who they are visiting. While in Astoria, they explore some sites where their parent’s tales unfolded and embark on an adventure of their own. Where the story left off over twenty years ago... misfits, rejects and cool kids band together to preserve one eyed willie’s whereabouts and the last of his left behind rich stuff. Enough to surely enhance the yet again dwindling Astoria and rejuvenate not only it, but the families that are back again as well. OR just remake the first one! Itr was such a great story the first time… let’s modernize it and do it again. My kids would love it!
JReel says:

9:59 on 10/26

Dont you want to know if Brand and Andy live happily ever after?

How about "Mouth" and Steph?

Does Mikey live out his live long dream to continue the pirating career of One-Eyed Willie?

Did Chunk forget to feed Sloth too many times, and end up as "chunks" in Sloth's stool??

Does Data go to work for the US Department of Defense making "bootie traps"??

These are all questions that I want answers to!!!
matt says:

2:50 on 11/01

http://weblogs.cltv.com/entertainment/tv/metromix/2007/10/josh_brolin_on_goonies_2.html#more

josh brolin confirms goonies sequel
chris leonido says:

11:38 on 11/17

I loved this movie and i ve played the video games of it on the NES. I SURE HOPE THE SEQUEL HAPPENS CUZ THAT WOULD MAKE ME HAPPY
jimmy says:

12:01 on 01/10

I really want this movie to be made and I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT!!!
Elissa says:

4:21 on 01/26

I am so excited for a Goonies Sequel, though I would have to agree with the comment from Nitrox819 that you should use all the original actors again. Sequels never seem to live up to the original success of the first film, when different actors or a cartoon is done instead.
STILL SO PUMPED FOR ANOTHER GOONIE FILM!
Alice Keymer says:

3:57 on 02/03

Gouchi no one wants the score. Please stop going on about it. You say fans have been "clamouing" for a the release. Not true, if there was a market it would be in stores. Not difficlt to work that out either. Actually, the movie deserved a better score!
princeSOLO says:

1:37 on 02/12

GOONIES goonies PLEASE i beg you come back, we all love you and your FILM, what ever happens their needs to be GOONIES 2 with the same actors. Abviously we lost ANNE RAMSAY and JOHN MUTUSZAK, but they can always find some1 like em. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE GOONIES i love to see them today...
shut up,no one cares says:

12:55 on 02/16

Alice,no one cares about whatever B.S. theory you happen to be spouting off about concerning soundtrack sales. Its obvious from your posts in soundtrack forums that you like crap music,and only want to see that same crap released.Other people, (obviously over 1,091, if you check Gouchi/Chris' petition)) want to see Dave Grusin's stuff released, so quit trolling boards to discourage fans from voting for quality releases. You're likely every bit as meaningless in person as you portray yourself to be on-line, so I won't waste further time.Just keep your insignificant opinions to yourself, so that they follow the rest of your forgettable life, you stupid cow.
Griffin says:

1:19 on 02/16

LOL at shut up, no one cares..this "thing", (I refer to user A.K.(you know who you are, trash) as a thing because she/he is worth far less than the materials that comprise a human being).If you Google it's name, there are negative remarks clogging countless web forums, made by it about female musicians who it is probably jealous of.I imagine such a bitter,unlikable thing is probably pretty ugly, as well as fat, and friendless.As for what it said about the Goonies score, I'd like to know what its basis for comparison is.Uh, people are signing the petition almost everyday.Everyone knows there have been rights issues for years since the Epic pop soundtrack release,so there's no question of demand.Alice, keep your trashy remarks on equally trashy boards, like the Britney Spears gossip pits you frequent.Your opinion is neither asked for,nor appreciated, you piece of worthless ??@@$$%%^^

Me
B.I.G A aka Spartan says:

12:00 on 04/12

I cant wait to see goonies 2 good luck to them go for it,I know they can do it as it is a work of love for those guys those actors directors producers and everyone who helps get this sequel made i think its good timing for kids of this day and age they dnt make films like they used to all the kids films are kinda crappy good memories good times.
Rosey F says:

4:44 on 04/17

Sounds good to make a Goonies 2 MOVIE with original cast grown and theie kids going on the Adventure in Astoria! Shouuld have been done years ago though it will definately be a winner I grew up watching and loving The Goonies and many other 80's movies and I now show them to my kids and they LOVE THEM TOO!! What does that tell you and so do their friends and cousins 12 and under!
I really hope they do it soon,Not a cartoon A MOVIE MOVIE! GOONIE LOVER FOREVER!!!!
WOODY says:

11:20 on 04/18

I would love to take my little girl to see goonies 2. I watched it the other day it was on and it brought back such great memories. I think the world is need of a feel good movie. I definately think the original cast should be included. And bring back one-eyed-willy he probably hasn't changed much. Goonies never say die. God bless all you 30 somethings we were lucky to have been kids when goonies came out it is something we will cherish for the rest of our days. peace my friends
Tonya says:

12:27 on 04/23

I would love a Goonies 2, but please no animation. The true fans have waited long enough to have the real cast do a life version.
ravish says:

2:51 on 05/10

animated, no way! I think they are wrong about the passing of the torch. If it's a sequal, you want the origanal cast, bad idea.
deano says:

2:18 on 07/08

the new star wars were ruined as was indiana jones 4 so theres no chance the goonies 2 will be great. 80's movies need to be left alone.