THE GOONIES 2: Potsy Ponciroli Hired by Warner Bros. to Write Script for Sequel to 1980’s Classic

Sequel to 1980’s Hit The Goonies Moving Ahead

Just about 40 years after the original movie, Warner Bros. has tapped Potsy Ponciroli to write the script for a sequel to the hit 1985 film, The Goonies.

Former child actor Ke Huy Quan emerged after years away from acting to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Now the former kid star may be returning to his roots to play in a sequel to his 1985 hit, The Goonies, if everything goes well and the script that Potsy Ponciroli has been hired to write for Warner Bros. works out satisfactorily. Steven Spielberg will be producing what is easily one of the longest-awaited sequels of all-time.

Amblin Entertainment will produce this new Goonies picture. However, there is no official plot yet and no director has been selected for the project as of now. Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Martha Plimpton, Josh Brolin, Kerri Green and Sean Astin could also be reprising their original The Goonies roles in the sequel. Astin and Ke Huy Quan recently appeared on-screen together in Quan’s box-office belly flop, Love Hurts, so a sequel to The Goonies could make up for that disappointing recent misfire.

Martha Plimpton had been in a few serious film roles after her work in The Goonies, including a 1997 Sundance entry titled Eye of God in which she was nothing short of superb. Meanwhile, Feldman certainly wants to get together and reunite with his old cast mates for another round of The Goonies.

Richard Donner, who directed the first The Goonies film, died in 2021. It will take some searching for a director who could do justice to the unique quality of the original 1985 picture which did terrifically both at the box-office (over $60 million) and with its audience approval. It’s clear the original movie was loved as it has played to enthusiastic crowds at Fathom Events screenings throughout the country.

Let it be stated Kerri Green was not cited in the Variety article as a star who would be coming back although anything is possible given the tremendous appeal of this upcoming project and the anticipation fans of the original movie have built up to see a sequel. Green was a big part of the first picture’s success so it could happen that she comes back if things go down the way fans hope they will. Also, Jeff Cohen’s page on Google says he is “retired.” Let’s see what happens.

As a kid who grew up in the 1980’s, there’s nothing more I want to see than a Goonies film reunion. However awkward it may be to see what’s become of our beloved characters from the original picture, it will be a blast to see another adventure with these characters at the helm.

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