10 80s Films That Deserve The TV Reboot Treatment

2. The Goonies

The Goonies was the perfect mix of 1980s family-corn and swashbuckling adventure. It's influence can be felt even today. A large part of what makes Stranger Things so appealing is how it focuses on the adventure through the kids eyes, a trope it learnt from The Goonies.

And while Stranger Things has us reconnecting with our youth and our love for cinema of a by-gone era, bringing The Goonies back for modern audiences presents the idea of looking inwards at ourselves and our own need for nostalgia. With the 1980s making a big comeback in our storytelling the idea of exploring why that is through the lens of one of nostalgia's champions is tantalising.

Taking lessons from the structure of Stranger Things could prove successful for a property like The Goonies as it allows for the main group to be re-introduced properly and for their adventure to be far bigger and more complex whilst allowing time for sub-plots and character development.

How It Should Work

The gang are now grown-up with their best years behind them. To remedy their collective, albeit diverse, issues they come together for a new adventure. One that promises to solve all their problems but it might just be the journey and not the destination that holds the key to happiness. Think the Amazing Race but fictional and with added tummy slaps and few mid-life crises.