The Goonies never give up – unless you ask Martha Plimpton.
On September 6, a report in The Sun said that a follow-up to the 1985 cult classic about a group of adventurous children was in the works and that the original cast was expected to return.
On Friday, September 13, Plimpton, 53, who played Stephanie “Stef” Steinbrenner in the original film, denied the rumor on Instagram.
“Guys, there is no script for Goonies 2, no one is ‘attached’ to it, Spielberg is not directing it, it’s not real,” Plimpton wrote in her post.
“What is real is: CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION AND GO VOTE!!!!” she added in her statement, referring to the upcoming US presidential election.
53-year-old Corey Feldman, who also played the role of Clark “Mouth” Devereaux in the film, also took to social media to put an end to the rumor.
On September 10, Feldman wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “2’SDAY, IS #GOONIES2 REAL?! ANYONE QUESTIONING… I CAN OFFICIALLY TELL YOU 100% NO! I HAVE NO INFORMATION THAT A SEQUEL IS IN THE WORKS.”
“The Goonies” was written by Chris Columbus based on a story by Steven Spielberg, and also stars Josh Brolin, Sean Astin, Jeff Cohen, Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, Kerri Green, John Matuszak and Joe Pantoliano.
In the decades since the film’s release, several cast members have died, including John Matuszak, Anne Ramsey, Mary Ellen Trainor, Keith Walker and Lupe Ontiveros.
The Goonies follows a group of kids and teenagers in Oregon who search for lost treasure to help their parents avoid foreclosure on their homes.
In 2015, Astin told the Tulsa World, “I have always said and will always say that it is not a question of if, but when the sequel will be made.”
The Lord of the Rings star added: “I don’t know the exact cast. Whether I’ll be in it, I don’t know. Whether they even want the original cast in it, I don’t know. But that doesn’t matter. It’s bigger – actually bigger than any of them. It’s even bigger than Steven (Spielberg), who created it… It’s part of American cultural history now, and the studio has a lot to gain from promoting it, so you can bet people will enjoy it even more.”
Astin, 53, has not added any recent updates to these comments.
In a Facebook post in September 2015, Astin wrote, “If the movie gets made in my lifetime, I will support it whether I’m there or not. If it gets made after I’m no longer there to be there or see it, I know in my heart, in my gut, wherever, that it will get made.”
In an interview with Yahoo in March 2024, Brolin said of the possibility of a sequel: “Why personally? You know what I mean? I don’t like it.”
The 56-year-old “No Country For Old Men” actor explained: “The film exists in a really beautiful way, from generation to generation… I just got a text the other day from a guy who showed his daughter the film for the first time and then kind of went back when he saw it for the first time, it’s so wonderful.”
“Why do you have to balance it with something else? Tell me, how would it be?”
He admitted, however, that Spielberg and Columbus at one point “had a few scripts” but thought they were “not good enough.”
He concluded: “And now it’s so far away that I don’t know if it will ever happen.”
