Dust off the doubloons and turn off all the lights because a report from Deadline reveals that not only does The Goonies have (one of the best children's movies ever made) got the sequel treatment, but family movie legend Chris Columbus is also working on a third Gremlins movie.

Look, we know, okay? We're also afraid to turn the excitement levels up a notch when it comes to these two nostalgic nuggets, given the history of both franchises trying to squeeze out another story over the past few decades. As it stands, Gremlins progressed a bit, at least in animated form, when the prequel series Gremlins: Secrets of Mogwai aired on Max in 2023. Even the director of the original two films, Joe Dante, thought the show might be Gremlins 3, which made for an enjoyable watch. However, in his eyes, it's a franchise that needed to be revisited.

"I think it's inevitable," Dante told /Film back in 2022. "The title is too well known not to do something with it." So eventually someone will do something with it, which is fine as long as it's not too much. CGI." It's a balance that can undoubtedly be struck for a third film if this happens. It's a second chapter of "The Goonies" that might be harder to dig.

There are many reasons why "The Goonies 2" never happened. There are also a bunch of reasons why it might. Until his death, the film's original director, Richard Donner, fought hard to bring us back to Gun Docs, but unfortunately it never materialized. There also seemed to be a split perspective with some of the film's original cast even entertaining the idea. Josh Brolin questioned why this even had to happen, while Martha Plimpton, who played Steph in the original film, shot down the latest batch of rumors that only surfaced last year.

An original cast member of The Goonies always hoped we'd see the treasure-hunting team back in action in some form or another. Talking to Huffington Post in 2017, Sean Astin said, “It's always possible. I will say it is likely to happen. I don't know when, but I've always had the belief that that sequel would happen mostly because (producer) Steven Spielberg, from the time I was a kid, told me he wanted it to happen and he never changed his mind." For now, we can only hope that both of our dreams will finally come true and that Corey Feldman will get at least one phone call.