While The Goonies has long inspired hopes of a sequel, star Josh Brolin isn’t embarking on that quest just yet.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the premiere of Zach Cregger’s much-anticipated horror film Weapons, Brolin explained his hesitation toward a potential followup and what it would take to get him onboard.
“I hope it does [happen] because the experience was so great,” he the outlet. “The movie is received so well, generation after generation. It’s just everything good about it. The trepidation that I have is that you release something else that taints that. I don’t want to taint what my memory of it [is].”
The Oscar nominee then joked about what the sequel’s storyline would entail, given the fact that its release would come over four decades after the 1985 debut of the classic adventure comedy about a group of misfit kids hunting treasure in a bid to save their house from foreclosure.
“It’s like, ‘Oh, we came out with another,’ and then the Goonies grew up, and then they came out with their walkers and then they fell off a cliff because they couldn’t see very well, like, what are you going to do? I don’t know. Maybe it could be great. If it’s great, you’ll know, like if [story writer Steven] Spielberg approves it, you know it’s going to be good. But I think there’s been five scripts so far through the years and he hasn’t approved anything yet — so me being picky, Spielberg is picky, and he has a reason to be because he has great taste.”
The Dune star’s comments come several months after Deadline broke the news that the Goonies, indeed, never say die: Traction appears to be gaining on The Goonies 2, with Potsy Ponciroli coming aboard to pen the script for Warner Bros. While there is no filmmaker currently attached (the late Richard Donner helmed the original), Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger and Holly Bario will produce for Amblin Entertainment alongside original scribe Chris Columbus, with Lauren Shuler Donner executive producing.
Plot details are currently under wraps, and news of the sequel’s development came just weeks after a cast reunion at TCL Chinese Theatre, in celebration of Ke Huy Quan’s hand and foot imprint ceremony.