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Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg; April 24, 1930–July 5, 2021) was an American film director and producer. Described as "one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters," Donner directed some of the most financially successful films of the 1970s and 1980s. His 50-year career crossed genres and influenced trends among filmmakers across the world. Donner began his career in 1957 as a television director. In the 1960s, he directed episodes of the series The Rifleman, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone, The Banana Splits, and many others. Donner made his film debut with the low-budget aviation drama X-15 in 1961 but had his critical and commercial breakthrough with the horror film The Omen in 1976. He directed the landmark superhero film Superman in 1978, which provided an inspiration for the fantasy film genre to eventually gain artistic respectability and commercial dominance. Donner later went on to direct films in the 1980s such as The Goonies and Scrooged, while reinvigorating the buddy cop film genre with the Lethal Weapon series. Donner and his wife, Lauren, owned a production company, The Donners' Company, which is most successful for producing the Free Willy and X-Men film franchises. Donner also produced Tales from the Crypt and co-wrote several comic books for Superman publisher DC Comics. In 2000, Donner received the President's Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Donner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A sequel to the 1985 film, The Goonies. Thirty-five years have past since the original Goonies adventure. Mikey is now a lawyer in Portland. He is married, and has a daughter named Zayna. Brand and Andy married, and together they currently run the Inferno Emporium, a treasure themed gift shop in Astoria. Chunk also stayed in Astoria. He cared for Sloth until his passing. Afterwards, he opened a medical home for the mentally handicapped, Sloth's Home of Helping Hands. Mouth and Stef married as well. They currently live in Eugene, where they both attended college. They are school teachers, and have a son named Rex. Data is a single father. He has a daughter named Laurie. He is the current authority manager at the Astoria bank. Mikey and his family move into their new home in Portland. Zayna, his daughter, quickly discovers a painting of a pirate ship above the fireplace. Mikey studies the painting, and thinks to himself that the ship looks awful familiar. Everyday that Mikey passes the painting of the ship, he notices that it looks as if it is moving closer to the frame. One day Mikey believes he notices water pouring from under the frame. He begins to think that he is going insane, and decides to visit a doctor. Meanwhile, a small pirate ship statue has turned up in the Inferno Emporium store, owned by Brand and Andy, and neither of them remember ordering such a item. Everyday the ship looks realer and realer. Almost to the point that Brand and Andy swear they hear small voices coming from the statue. Similarly, Chunk, Mouth, Stef, and Data also begin to suffer from strange pirate ship type unusualities. The goonies decide to contact one another. They all discover that they are having strange pirate-themed activities occur around them. Mikey believes that it is the ghost of One-Eyed Willy trying to summon the goonies. The rest of the gang is much too mature, and don't believe such nonsense. Mikey takes matters into his own hands. Slowly, him and his daughter are able to break the codes of the many strange occurrences that are occurring around their new Portland home. Mikey figures out that once the Inferno escaped the grotto, that it came back to life; as well did everything on board. One-Eyed Willy is alive and his ship and treasure are in trouble. Blackbeard has returned and will stop at nothing until he has the treasure of One-Eyed Willy. The Goonies must reunite, along with their children, and save their befriended pirate.
