The Goonies star Sean Astin isn't sure a sequel to the '80s cult classic is going to happen anymore.
"For 20 years, my answer to the question was an unequivocal yes, there will be a sequel -- it’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when. Just certainty. Well… that’s gone," Astin told Collider. "Now I think we’ve probably passed the threshold for which all of us original cast members are right for doing a sequel."
While a sequel seems beyond the realm of possibility, Astin could see a reboot down the road. "But the audience is so powerful and so devoted to it, that I’m convinced that at the very least, it will be rebooted, which I will be fine with. If it’s not as good as the original Goonies, that’s fine, who cares?" he said.
According to Astin, producer Steven Spielberg just hasn't found the right story yet. "I think Spielberg has been waiting for whatever that magical, mystical secret sauce is and he hasn’t found it yet so he just hasn’t pulled the trigger yet. He’s so busy so I don’t even know if he could do it himself and you know, Dick Donner wants it," he said.
Astin also admitted that, when he and Corey Feldman came up with a treatment for a sequel and pitched it to director Richard Donner, he turned them down. Astin's confidence in the fight for a sequel lasted until fairly recently. In 2015, the actor stated Goonies is bigger than everyone who helped create it and insisted a sequel was a matter of "when," not "if."
via ComicBook.com