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GOONIES 2 Getting Prepped Again?

It seems that the online media will not let this rumor die even after two decades of failed attempts. For the past two months, MTV have made it their mission to ask principals involved in the original GOONIES (Corey Feldman, Sean Astin) about possibly doing a long rumored sequel. Now, Empire Online has asked the original "Data" (Jonathan Ke Quan) his thoughts on doing a sequel. The reason I'm placing this under Movie Rumor Control is because of all the speculation up to this point. All we've seen so far are actors who say a sequel is happening but none of them seem sure when it's going to happen or what the story will center on. They don't even know whether it will be a live action sequel or an animated series sequel to the original film.

Here's what we do know from MTV and the latest Empire Online article:

From Empire Online:

But the recent rumours that an animated sequel series may get the go ahead are apparently very much true. Corey Feldman (Mouth in the movie) recently told MTV that he'd been approached to return as an older version of his character for a cartoon series, in which the original Goonies would be all growns up and with adventuring kids of their own. And now Jonathan Ke Quan has told Empire exclusively that he and Jeff Cohen (Chunk) have been asked to lend their talents too.

"We were approached a few months ago by Warner about doing it and asked if we would be interested," said Ke Quan. "They even showed us character designs. It looks very cool".

Sean Astin talks to MTV:

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.”

Corey Feldman talks to MTV:

“Right now they are talking about the idea of doing it as an animated series,” Feldman revealed.

An animated “Goonies” follow-up? Count me in. But, then, you could count me in for just about any type of sequel. And there’s been plenty that have gotten started but never finished, said Feldman.

“There’s been so many,” he sighed. “The one that I heard that worked the best was all of us were now grown up, and have [our own] kids. And those kids get into some trouble and end up stumbling across some link to our past. They discover who we really are and what we went through. And, simultaneously, the Fratelli brothers find out that the kids have found out – so they’re out to get the kids and the kids are out to save their lives and their families.”

“At one point [another script] had me working in Vegas as a lounge guy, a Vegas shyster guy,” Feldman continued, laughing as he thought about what happened to his character, “The Mouth.” “Then there was another one where I was a trial lawyer.”

But all belong to the scrapheaps of never were, a despondent Feldman insisted – because a Goonies movie will probably never get made.

“I would like to say that there’s a great writer on it and it’s coming soon [but] I have nothing for you,” he declared. “It’s a film Spielberg very badly wanted to make [and] Richard Donner very badly wanted to make. All of us [the cast] really, really wanted to do it. It’s come to the point of the script got ordered, and then the ball got dropped. For whatever reason, Warner Bros. doesn’t see it as a profitable venture. It’s a very sad, unfortunate story.”

Thanks to Scoopers Monkeyfoot and Gentlemen Death for passing it along..