"Spaceballs" the t-shirt! "Spaceballs" the coloring book! "Spaceballs" the....sequel?
Yup. A source told IndieWire that Amazon MGM Studios is currently in early development on a sequel to "Spaceballs." Mel Brooks is returning to produce the feature, a direct follow-up to his 1987 "Star Wars" spoof. Josh Gad is also on board to star in and also produce what we'll call "Spaceballs 2."
[...] Josh Greenbaum, who directed "Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar" and this year's documentary "Will & Harper," is attached to direct the sequel. He's working from a script by Benji Samit, Dan Hernandez, and Josh Gad. Samit and Hernandez are known for working on "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem," "Pokemon Detective Pikachu," and the upcoming "Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy."
[...] "Spaceballs" from 1987 starred Brooks, Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet, the late John Candy as the Chewbacca parody Barf, and Bill Pullman as the hero Lone Starr. In classic Brooks fashion the film mercilessly ripped off "Star Wars" and featured everything from heroes fighting with pseudo lightsabers extending from rings, characters using the "Schwartz" to save the day, and even Brooks playing a Yoda parody, Yogurt, who shamelessly plugged fourth-wall-breaking "Spaceballs" merchandise.
The film made $38 million worldwide but has become part of the canon of staples for Brooks acolytes. Brooks recently wrote the Hulu series "History of the World: Part II," a sequel to his 1981 sketch film. That series also featured Gad in one episode playing Shakespeare.
(Score: 5, Funny) by looorg on Sunday July 21 2024, @09:32PM (3 children)
New Spaceballs? Has to be better then almost all of the garbage Disney has put out in the Star Wars franchise over the last few decades.
Also I have to admit that I thought Mel Brooks was dead. I guess he breaks for nobody. May the schwartz be with him.
(Score: 3, Funny) by RamiK on Sunday July 21 2024, @09:41PM
After Paws of Fury I assumed his quest for more money has met a tragic final emergency stop.
compiling...
(Score: 4, Informative) by RS3 on Monday July 22 2024, @03:23AM (1 child)
You made me wonder too. He's 98, going strong!
Then I thought of Abe Vigoda [wikipedia.org] who in the early '80s was rumored to have died, but was in fact still alive, and he leveraged a lot of humor on that myth. He is actually deceased now.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Monday July 22 2024, @07:18PM
or is he.....?
"It's spelled JUST HOW IT SOUNDS! Jeez!"
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Sunday July 21 2024, @10:36PM
Similar to Hot Tub Time Machine [imdb.com], Spaceballs is one of those movies that has an uncountable number of awesome lines to quote from. Glad to see Brooks is still slinging it!
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Thexalon on Sunday July 21 2024, @10:38PM (2 children)
If it's not called that, Mel Brooks has failed in his duty.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 3, Funny) by Tork on Sunday July 21 2024, @10:49PM (1 child)
Spaceballs III: The Search for Bucks
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(Score: 5, Informative) by BananaPhone on Monday July 22 2024, @03:08PM
While i like "Spaceballs II: The Wrath of Cons", he literally said in the first movie that the sequel was going to be called "The Search for More Money"