Mel Brooks confirms return
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Mel Brooks' 'Spaceballs' put a comedic dent in the sci-fi genre when it crashed onto the space-opera scene in 1987. Now, prequels and sequels later, it's back.
This time he’ll just be acting, though, with Josh Greenbaum ( Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar) directing from a script by Benji Samit, Dan Hernandez, and Josh Gad. Gad is also expected to star, but that has yet to be officially confirmed.
The Hollywood icon Mel Brooks' best films tended to parody entire genres of movies — Westerns with Blazing Saddles, for example, or classic horror with Young Frankenstein. Naturally, then, in the 1980s,
Bill Pullman will return as Lone Starr in a sequel to the 1987 comedy, "Spaceballs." Mel Brooks and Rick Moranis are also on board for the follow-up to the "Star Wars" parody. The sequel, directed by Josh Greenbaum,
Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis are set to reprise their respective roles as Lone Starr and Dark Helmet in the new Spaceballs movie from Amazon MGM Studios, with Keke Palmer (One of Them Days) joining the cast,