A long time ago in a movie studio far, far away, Mel Brooks ripped off Star Wars with Spaceballs. Love it or hate it, it certainly left its mark on cinema. To quote John Hurt from the original:
“Oh, No. Not again.”
39 years later, they announced a sequel, Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money. That’s not the official title; it ended up being Spaceballs: The New One.
The new movie will see a lot of the original cast back, and new members: Bill Pullman, Lewis Pullman, Keke Palmer, Mel Brooks, Josh Gad, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Carrigan, Liz Kingsman, Michael Winslow, and Rick Moranis. I hope the movie is good enough for Moranis to come out of retirement.
Josh Greenbaum is directing, with Gad, Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit writing. The only credit for Brooks is that he’s producing.
There are new details about what the movie is about. It seems like they are leaning hard into having a pop at Disney for one. Here are the plot details:
“Somehow, Dark Helmet has returned! 40 years after the events of the first Spaceballs, 50 years after the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, and 1 year after the events of The Devil Wears Prada 2, the galaxy is once again under threat.
A threat so evil, so unstoppable, so completely lacking in any original ideas, that it has vowed to bring back the past… every last bit of it.
With Lone Starr in hiding, Queen Vespa on the throne, and the Schwartz stretched thinner than a franchise releasing TV episodes theatrically, the only hope for the galaxy is Vespa’s undisciplined son, Prince Starburst, and a mysterious Palace advisor named Destiny.
Together, they must find Lone Starr, Yogurt, and any other iconic legacy characters fans are demanding before they discover the hard way that, while some threats you can fight, the reboot is not one of them.”
Spaceballs: The New One will be in cinemas on the 23rd April 2027.
