Brooke Bunny
Speaking to Yahoo!, veteran filmmaker Richard Donner (“Lethal Weapon”, “The Goonies”) reiterated that he’s still very keen to do something more with “The Goonies” brand in the future – but it mightn’t be the sequel he essentially promised us a year or so ago.
“We’re going to do an off-Broadway, do you know what immersion theatre is? Where there’s no seats, the venue is you go into a warehouse and there’s something happening in that warehouse and that’s the play you’ve come to see, only you become part of it and you travel through with actors. It’s very popular now.” Donner continued, “We’re doing one on ’The Goonies.’ It will take another year or so but it’s going to be wonderful.”
As for that heavily-hankered-for movie sequel to the 1985 classic? Don’t count on it. Not within the next few years, anyway.
“Everything takes a long time to get it right. If you do things fast and quick and easy, that’s a disservice. But if there were going to be another movie it would take us a long time to get it right, because we have a lot of history that we’re involved with and a lot of integrity that we have to keep to what once was, and lives a life of its own without destroying it. Maybe the powers that be are working on something,” Donner concluded.
So, we’re still no closer to returning to Astoria.
