Donner's Say THE GOONIES & DAVE Headed to Broadway

At the Saturn Awards, Collider.com spoke with Richard Donner and Lauren Shuler Donner. Among the topics discussed were musical adaptations of "The Goonies" and "Dave."

Richard Donner broke the news by saying, "We're going to Broadway with it to make a musical. Yes it's true. True. We're far along the line now, getting the proper people to do it."

He added, "You gotta get a great book write you gotta get a great Broadway director you gotta get musical people. It's involved, but she's [wife Lauren] a genius at it, unbelievable. And she's doing "Dave" as a musical on Broadway. So she's really helped me with this thing tremendously- she's the lead on everything. It's another world, it's years. You finally get it together, then you take it on the road, then you make your changes and everything. The only this is this story is so solid, so good that you don't want to destroy it. And there's millions of spots that scream out for music."

When asked when he hopes the project will be completed he answered, "Before I die," before saying, "It'll probably be 2 years."

Wife Lauren Shuler Donner then joined the conversation to talk about her work on a musical version of the film "Dave."

"It's very challenging," she said, "but it's always been. I mean ‘Carousel' and ‘Oklahoma'...so there's always been a history of that. It's just a good source for stories, and some of them become very popular. "

When asked about the progress she answered,"We actually put "Dave" into development 2 years ago. We have a composer/lyricist and a book writer and they've been working on other projects. Now they're free to work on ours, so they're just, ya know...halfway into it. "

"There'll be changes," she said of the musical version, "you know you want to give people a reason to go to the theater. Obviously the music element really changes it because they use song to turn a plot point instead of action or dialogue so it's very different."

To see the interview, click here.