The Schwartz Awakens: 'Spaceballs 2' Set For 2027 From Amazon MGM
98-year-old Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, and yes, retirement-ender Rick Moranis are all set to return
Now that’s a serious case of development chaos…development void? The bad side of the afterlife in Star Wars seemingly hasn’t been explored much, and everything about it seems to have been Legends canon- established. Regardless, the 2027 50th anniversary of the franchise just got a bit more interesting, as the sequel to its biggest parody, Spaceballs, has been picked up by Amazon MGM for a theatrical release in that year, which also has an actual Star Wars film, Star Wars: Starfighter, set for it.
Serious talk about a Spaceballs sequel didn’t seem to start until 2013, at least that’s as far as Wikipedia chronicles. It was last June that things truly picked up, where it was revealed original director Mel Brooks would produce. Josh Greenbaum was revealed to be directing while Frozen, Gutenberg! and The Book of Mormon’s Josh Gad was writing with Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez. Gad will also star. The new film has been described by those who have not yet read the script as “A Non-Prequel Non-Reboot Sequel Part Two but with Reboot Elements Franchise Expansion Film”. It was Brooks who appeared in the announcement video, his part following a traditional Star Wars crawl that lambasted the franchises that grew, and were born and grew in the (currently near-)40 years since the original film. That included obviously going after Star Wars first, Dune, Jurassic Park, James Cameron’s Avatar, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, both the DCEU and DCU, The Lion King, Harry Potter, Star Trek, Alien, and Predator, and more. The 98-year-old director of The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein was the first role reprisal confirmed, as the Yoda parody Yogurt, one of two roles he had in the original film.
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Mia Goth is probably unsheathed from Blade, but she’s moving over to Disney’s other biggest acquired franchise: Star Wars. She’s taking on the villain role in Star Wars: Starfighter, starring alongside Ryan Gosling.
Said original film, which was an MGM release as Amazon continues to raze its library to revitalize any IP they could find, sees the evil Dark Helmet (played by Rick Moranis) and President Skroob (the other Brooks role) attempt to steal the atmosphere of the peaceful planet Druidia, only to be thwarted by the hero Lone Starr (Bill Pullman), a composite Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, his sidekick Barf (John Candy), the Chewbacca parody, and the Druish princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga), the Leia, also featuring Joan Rivers as the voice of the C-3PO parody, and Tim Russ, Jack Riley and Rob Paulsen in smaller roles.
In the next six hours, Deadline reported that Pullman would be reprising as Lone Starr and Moranis, who Gad previously attempted to pull out of live action retirement by committing to a new Honey, I Shrunk the Kids sequel for Disney+ in 2020, finally succeeding (hopefully) by having him reprise as Dark Helmet. One of Moranis’s few roles of the last 20 years had him reprise the character for an episode of The Goldbergs in a voice-only capacity. They also reported Keke Palmer, lately of Nope, One of Them Days, and The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy is set to be one of the leads, named Destiny. TheWrap then confirmed Zuniga’s return, while The Hollywood Reporter revealed Lewis Pullman, Bill’s son who just entered the MCU as Bob Reynolds aka Sentry in The New Avengers, is in talks to play Vespa and Lone Starr’s son Starburst. After appearing together in the western The Ballad of Lefty Brown, the younger Pullman had since been putting some professional distance from his dad.
On his own Instagram post of the trailer, Gad wrote “I was that child who saw “Spaceballs” before I ever saw “Star Wars” and then wondered why anyone would do a dramatic remake of the Mel Brooks classic. It is therefore the greatest gift of my life to now help take the reins and work alongside Mel and this incredible group to do a sequel to the movie that first inspired George Lucas.” Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Jeb Brody, and Greenbaum also produce, while Samit, Hernandez, Kevin Salter, andAdam Merims executive produce.
'Scary Movie 6' Finds The Wayans To A Summer 2026 Release
When Scream 7 releases in theaters in late February 2026, Scary Movie 6 won’t be that far behind. Marlon Wayans has alerted fans to mark their calendars as Paramount and Miramax have set the film’s release date to be June 12, 2026.
Sources: Deadline (1, 2), TheWrap, The Hollywood Reporter
"A Non-Prequel Non-Reboot Sequel Part Two but with Reboot Elements Franchise Expansion Film”.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
They couldn't possibly do this without Mel, and they know it.