Amazon MGM Studios has set Mel Brooks‘ long-awaited “Spaceballs” sequel to debut next spring.
The sci-fi spoof movie, which marks a return to acting for star Rick Moranis, will be released on April 23, 2027, in time for the cult classic’s 40th anniversary.
Moranis will reprise his role in the goofy intergalactic adventure as Lord Dark Helmet alongside Bill Pullman as Lone Starr, Daphne Zuniga as Princess Vespa, and George Wyner as Colonel Sandurz. Brooks, 99, a winner of the coveted EGOT and hailed as one of the greatest comedic filmmakers in Hollywood history, also returns as the Yoga-esque being Yogurt.
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Josh Gad headlines the new cast, which also features Keke Palmer, Anthony Carrigan and Lewis Pullman, Bill’s son. (“Every day was such a trip,” the younger Pullman told People last year. “It … felt like a bizarre simulation. I just couldn’t believe my luck.”)
“Spaceballs” cast and crew (clockwise from the top): director Josh Greenbaum, Bill Pullman, Keke Palmer, Daphne Zuniga, George Wyner, Jeb Brody (producer), Taylor Stuewe (associate producer), Austin Lee (associate producer), Benji Samit (writer), Dan Hernandez (writer), Adam Merims (line producer/EP), Anthony Carrigan, Lewis Pullman, Josh Gad and Rick Moranis.
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Josh Greenbaum, who is known for “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar” and “Will & Harper,” is directing from a script by Gad, Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez. Like the 1987 Brooks-directed original, the sequel is expected to riff on popular sci-fi franchises like “Star Wars,” “Star Trek” and “Alien.”
The sequel was revealed last summer in a video shared by Brooks. “Thirty-eight years ago, there was only one ‘Star Wars’ trilogy,” the crawl reads. “But since then there have been … a prequel trilogy, a sequel trilogy, a sequel to the prequel, a prequel to the sequel, countless TV spinoffs, a movie spinoff of the TV spinoff, which is both a prequel and a sequel.”The video points out that other franchises like “Jurassic Park, “Avatar” and “Harry Potter” have also continued to expand. “But in 38 years,” it concluded, “There has only ever been one ‘Spaceballs.’ Until now…”
Plot details about the sequel, including its title, are being kept under wraps, but “the title is rumored to be the name of the movie, and plot details are being described as information about what happens in the story,” reads Amazon MGM’s tongue-in-cheek synopsis. A prior logline also teased that the movie is a “non-prequel non-reboot sequel part two but with reboot elements franchise expansion film.”
Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Jeb Brody will also produce alongside Brooks (for his Brooksfilms Limited), Gad (for Angry Child Productions), Greenbaum and Kevin Salter. Adam Merims, Samit and Hernandez will executive produce.
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