Richard Donner Cut The Goonies’ Octopus Attack For A Simple Reason

Ke Huy Quan enjoyed a pretty remarkable Hollywood comeback in 2022 thanks to a well-received performance in “Everything Everywhere All At Once” that would go on to become an awards season favorite.

It’s been great to see for fans of the actor, many of whom grew up watching him as a child in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “The Goonies.” He was one of the most memorable parts of both of those films, but when it comes to “The Goonies,” one of the reasons his character Data is so memorable is because of a cryptic comment he makes to a reporter in the final scene: “The octopus was very scary!”Except, there was no octopus in the movie.

Or at least, not in the version that played in theaters.

As you may well know, director Richard Donner actually did shoot a sequence with the film’s young heroes having

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