Looks like Richard Donner is really pushing to have a Goonies sequel made. They have a script and they're trying to get Warner Bros. to green light it.
from aintitcool:
quote: The sequel would reunite the original cast, which included Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Josh Brolin and others, with a new bunch of suburban kids, Donner said.
"The new group is called the Groonies, because they happen to live in a town where [Data], the Chinese kid, lives ... and he's got an electronics repair shop and all the kids hang out at his shop. He has this Chinese accent and he calls the Goonies the Groonies, and so the new kids call themselves the Groonies, until they get into a situation where the old Goonies have to save the new Groonies, or vice versa."
I loved the Goonies growing up. Still do. The commentary track on the dvd with the whole original cast is just priceless. Seeing that cast back together for some more goonies antics, with a new generation of "Groonies" would make my day.
I just hope to god they don't **** it up! I'm a little worried about that plot write up. But it's probably also too early to tell...
[ November 13, 2003, 04:07 PM: Message edited by: Strider ]
Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :
It was a really great movie. But, looking back, it is also a very corny movie. And I say that with a lot of affection. I think a good reason why we still enjoy The Goonies is because we can look back and remember enjoying it as kids (or as younger kids). So we end up forgiving a lot of the corn that we wouldn't in modern movies.
So, like you Strider, I'm worried that any attempt at a sequel will suck. But hey, I'll probably see it at least once. Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I'll probably see it, but I really don't see how it could ever be as good in my eyes as the original.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
Obviously nothing can be as good as the original, even as corny as it was(and there were questionable things that seeing it for the first time today i would most likely not forgive.).
But i grew up on that movie. It was the perfect movie for a kid sitting around the house wishing that something exciting would happen.
[ November 13, 2003, 04:51 PM: Message edited by: Strider ]
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Question for the day.
What was the name of the Pirate in the Goonies movie and is he the same as Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribean?
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
One Eyed Willie!
and no...Sparrow didn't have a patch.
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I think I was just a little too old when that movie came out. But maybe it will be the reverse of "gremlins" for me, which I thought was really cool at 14 but I checked it out on DVD last year and I was like "how could Spielberg or Columbus have had any kind of a career after plopping this on the sidewalk?"
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
hey...don't dis Gremlins.
Gizmo! Maguai!(sp?)
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
Mogwai
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
Goonies II. Twenty years later.
quote:I just hope to god they don't **** it up!
Honestly now, isn't it a given?
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
first of all, i hate not being online during the day and having to drudge up cold, limp threads. too bad that doesn't stop me.
i'm a big Goonies fan. it remains one of the best overall dvds i own. i really appreciate the way they did the commentary. they got the original cast together, and you can still hear the movie through their comments. also, they show them while they're commenting, but they just shrink the movie instead of breaking away altogether.
anyway, i would like to think that a sequel may not be a total disaster. the one thing it's got over Saved by the Bell: The New Class is that it's got more than two of the original cast members trying to hang on to a great thing that ended when it should have. at least Goonies always left me wanting more.
also, the original cast isn't quite geriatric yet. they're a little more mature and a little less skinny with a few more wrinkles and deeper voices. but they've still got some vitality, and i'm sure their sense of adventure is plenty keen. how else could they agree to do a sequel twenty years later?
but first, before anything else, Jeff Cohen's gotta do the truffle shuffle.
Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
You liked Saved by the Bell?! And you liked it enough to watch a sequel series?!? And you think it's comparable to Goonies?!?! Seek therapy!
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote: Seek therapy!
I can't argue with this man.
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
NONONONONONO, jnsb.
ok, i did like saved by the bell, but i thought the sequel was retarded, and it didn't take a full episode to discover this.
my comparison was only in trying to make the point that sometimes sequels or spinoffs aren't such a good idea, but that the goonies idea might work.
please, don't send me back to the asylum. there's no cheese there.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
Speaking of Data, am I the only one who would like to see that actor's character back in the Indiana Jones sequel? It's the closest thing they've ever shown to Indiana Jones having a son. Now that Harrison Ford is as old as Sean Connery, it would be cool to see the father-son dynamic from Last Crusade work in reverse. And he was the best part of Temple of Doom. Anybody think I'm crazy?
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
you're definitely nuts. please accompany me to the asylum. [insert crazed graemlin]
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Yes, but it has nothing to do with your post. . .
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
quote: you're definitely nuts.
He no nuts. He crazy!
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yeah Speed, I'd love to see Short Round return in the new Indiana Jones movie!
I was never a big Goonies fan. I mean, I saw it, and thought it was okay, but it didn't seem like anything special to me. Maybe I was just too old? When did it come out?
How is it that the word "Goonies", when spoken with a Chinese accent, would come out "Groonies"? If the original group were called the "Gloonies" I could understand, but it isn't.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
quote:Hey folks, Harry here... Been poking around a bit on this whole "Groonies" thing... it just doesn't sound right, and sure enough it isn't. The current working title on the script...isn't GROONIES, but rather... "GOONIES NEVER SAY DIE"!!! Now that's a title! Turns that the "Groonies" thing all came from a misunderstanding from an interview with Richard Donner. You see, in the film the group of new kids in the story get the name of the original group mixed up and call themselves "Groonies" then are set right by the original gang. Apparently it is a one line gag in the movie.
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I'm a little worried about that plot write up. But it's probably also too early to tell...![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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