Honestly, we’d like to see how Mel Brooks would handle “Blazing Saddles 2.” But (thankfully) that’s not what we’re getting.
Instead, the legendary comedic filmmaker, 98, announced Thursday that he will be releasing a sequel to his most sequel-friendly film: “Spaceballs.”
“Spaceballs 2” will drop in 2027, 40 years after Brooks’ original “Star Wars” parody premiered in theaters.
And although audiences likely are sick of sequels because Hollywood has been shoving them down our throats for roughly the past 20 years, “Spaceballs 2” might be the sequel we need considering that its teaser skewers sequels in the silliest way possible.
The clip, which uses the classic “Star Wars” opening crawl, begins with the lines, “Thirty-eight years ago, there was only one Star Wars trilogy. But since then there have been… A prequel trilogy. A sequel trilogy. A sequel to the prequel. A prequel to the sequel,” blue text on the screen says as the words scroll upward.
The text continues to poke fun at the ridiculous number of “Star Wars” properties before moving on to mock Hollywood’s obsession with preexisting intellectual properties, taking aim at the Marvel Cinematic Universe, DC Studios’ failed attempts at competing with the MCU, and Disney’s soulless live-action cash-grabs.
After the text concludes, Brooks pops up on the screen.
“After 40 years, we asked ‘What do the fans want?’” Brooks says with a chuckle. “And instead, we’re making this movie.”
But that’s not necessarily true. As Gizmodo points out, the original “Spaceballs” joked about a sequel, called “Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.”
Deadline reports that “Spaceballs 2” will feature some familiar faces from the 1987 film, including Bill Pullman as the Han Solo-esque Lone Starr and Rick Moranis as the goofy villain, Dark Helmet. Brooks also will reprise his role as the Yoda spoof character, Yogurt, per The Hollywood Reporter.
There also will be a few new faces, as Josh Gad of “Frozen” fame will produce and be featured in the film alongside actor Keke Palmer.
Gad, who also co-wrote the script for “Spaceballs 2” with Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez, revealed to Forbes in November 2024 that he had finished the first draft of the sequel, noting that working on it was like a “fever dream” and that Brooks was very involved in the process.
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“Everybody who’s read it has been blown away. The process of working on this with and alongside Mel Brooks has been one of the highlights of my career,” Gad said.
