The much-loved 1985 classic turns 40 next year with a sequel to Richard Donner and Steven Spielberg’s much-loved treasure-hunting adventure having been talked about for decades.

And now in an age of legacy sequels, it looks like The Goonies 2 is finally about to happen.

After all, Warner Bros has just had an impressive box office opening weekend for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which arrived in cinemas almost 40 years after Tim Burton’s original.

So it makes a lot of sense for the studio to be…