Ke Huy Quan Says He's Open to Returning for a GOONIES Sequel If It Ever Happens
Ke Huy Quan has had an awesome year, and last night he ended up winning a Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Everything Everywhere All At Once. It was such a cool moment!
The actor is being asked a lot about his past films since he’s been back in the spotlight, and he has already said that he would love to reprise his role as Short Round in an Indiana Jones spinoff series or film. Now, he’s being asked about The Goonies sequel and if he’d be interested in coming back to play Data again after all these years.
When asked about this in an interview with Deadline, the actor said he is open to it, if something happens:
“For the last 30 something years we tried to do Goonies 2. I wished it had come to pass when I was young, I thought I would need it to make a career comeback. We had numerous scripts, but not one script that felt that it could live up to the original.
“Sadly we lost Dick Donner, the captain of our ship. I really don’t know if there will be a Goonies 2, but I’m open to revisiting the character.”
I have no idea if a Goonies sequel will ever happen, but the most recent attempt came from Adam F. Goldberg, who wrote a script for it before the pandemic hit. He actually ended up meeting with Richard Donner before he passed away, but we don’t know what came of that. There’s been no update.
You can see some teaser art that was created for the Goonies 2 pitch here. The art teases one of the plot aspects of the film. It shows a young girl with the pirate keys to One-Eyed Willy’s treasure standing in front of the iconic bone organ from the original film. But, as you can see, the area has been turned into an attraction of sorts. There’s a sign on a guardrail in front of the girl with a sign that reads “Bone Organ, 1632,” while in the upper right-hand corner there’s a door and a sign above that reads, “Willie’s Wild Water Slide.”
Steven Spielberg, the film's executive producer, was previously asked about the possibility of the sequel by Josh Gad during The Goonies reunion, and he explained that the creative team revisits the idea of a sequel every so often before they brush it off:
“Chris and Dick and I and Lauren [Shuler Donner] have had a lot of conversations about it, and every couple of years we come up with an idea, but then it doesn’t hold water. The problem is the bar that all of you raised on this genre. I don’t think we’ve really successfully been able to find an idea that is better than The Goonies we made in the ‘80s.”
Do you think this Goonies sequel will ever get off the ground!? It’s one of those things that fans would love to see happen, but that ship might have sailed.