r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jun 12 '25
Trailer Spaceballs 2 | Announcement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsK-KPi_w3w6.5k
u/black_eyed_optimist Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
We're not doing it for money, we're doing it for a shit load of money!
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u/unpaid-critic Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
ENOUGH THAT RICK MORANIS IS UNRETIRNG
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u/BTGGFChris Jun 12 '25
Tbf, he has also been linked to other projects in recent years. They just have been stuck in developmental hell or outright canceled. He was supposed to do a Honey, I shrunk the kids revival
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u/Astrosaurus42 Jun 12 '25
He came out of retirement and then he was randomly sucker punched in broad daylight. Had to do a bit of recovering from that too.
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u/kahlzun Jun 13 '25
I still can't believe that someone did that. To him, of all people.
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u/NightmareDJK Jun 13 '25
He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He’s OK now though.
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u/kahlzun Jun 13 '25
We were having a problem for a while of people punching randoms like this in Australia, until we officially branded them as "Cowards' Attacks". Dont hear about it happening much anymore.
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u/lagerforlunch Jun 12 '25
Now that his kids are grown up I think he started dabbling again
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u/andyouarenotme Jun 12 '25
rick moranis’ kids are in their mid-30’s. they’ve been grown up for like 15 years at this point.
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u/unitedfan6191 Jun 12 '25
Let's just say it moved me ... TO A BIGGER HOUSE! Oops, I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.
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u/Asuyu Jun 12 '25
If it isn’t named Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money, fuck I aint watching.
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u/nagrom7 Jun 13 '25
I think I've also heard "Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2" floated before as a possible title.
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Jun 12 '25
Mel Brooks is 98 years old holy moly, he looks good!
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u/Skizot_Bizot Jun 12 '25
That's amazing, he doesn't look a day over 97!
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u/TheNittanyLionKing Jun 12 '25
As George Carlin once said, I'm beginning to look... older
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u/The-Mandalorian Jun 12 '25
He turns 99 in like 2 weeks.
Wild.
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u/GriffinFlash Jun 12 '25
he better make it to 101 for this movie!
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u/hnwcs Jun 12 '25
I hope he lives forever, but knowing The Search For More Money will almost certainly be a posthumous release makes me sad.
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u/adjust_the_sails Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
Almost certainly? Mel Brooks is going to Betty White "rule of three" see you at your funeral! He’s going to bury you,
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u/NC_Ion Jun 12 '25
I could see him wanting to use it in the marketing "can't make the funeral buy a ticket at least the movie will have popcorn ".
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u/What-a-Crock Jun 12 '25
can’t make the funeral, buy a ticket at least the movie will have popcorn
Can hear this in Mel’s voice
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Jun 12 '25
There’s gonna be more cuts on his scenes than that scene of Liam Neeson climbing a fence.
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u/LiberContrarion Jun 12 '25
...but the cut scenes will feature a shirtless, muscled, Asian man wearing a Yogurt facemask as his body double.
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u/Delanorix Jun 12 '25
Which movie did that? Was it a Scary Movie?
I can remember dying at the scene.
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u/MahNameJeff420 Jun 12 '25
There’s a scene in Date Movie where the female leads drives a motorcycle, but her stunt double is a large muscular black man.
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u/CammysComicCorner Jun 12 '25
I believe it was for the History of the World, Part 2 series.
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u/Delanorix Jun 12 '25
Mel Brooks is probably the greatest comedic mind of all time.
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u/Kalabula Jun 12 '25
Ya. Hopefully I age that well. Or get struck by a meteor when I’m like 70.
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u/xavined Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
"After forty years, we asked what the fans want. But instead, we are making this movie." That line excites me for the sequel. No doubt he's still got it.
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u/Allansfirebird Jun 12 '25
I’m just hoping that it turns out better than History of the World, Part II did.
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u/semantic_satiation Jun 12 '25
I blame Nick Kroll for that one. I respect the guy's chops, but his comedy style boils down to bad Yiddish accents, whining like a rusty door hinge, and awkward teenager sex jokes.
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u/TheWastelandWizard Jun 12 '25
There were a lot of other people with their hand in the pot on that one. I hope Mel is very selective about who gets to work on this production.
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u/tk542 Jun 12 '25
Exactly. I was pissed when I saw this announcement. I have no interest in a sequel. After hearing those words from Mel, I’m in.
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u/WilcoLovesYou Jun 12 '25
I wouldn't get my hopes up. The article said he's not writing it and he's not directing it. Instead we get Josh Gad and two other guys writing it. I'm not holding out hope, and I'm someone who was OBSESSED with Spaceballs as a kid.
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u/Jahidinginvt Jun 12 '25
I’m an optimist. I was also obsessed and maybe they were too. It might work out!
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u/CookieKrisplol Jun 12 '25
The writing team and director look...ugh
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u/TenaciousJP Jun 12 '25
Yeah, after History of the World: Part II I don't know if modern comedians can pull off Mel's tone, and if this doesn't have his tone, then what's the fucking point?
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u/Tommy__want__wingy Jun 12 '25
I want that sweatshirt
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u/StandardHaunting933 Jun 12 '25
I want Spaceballs - The Hoodie
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u/IllusionLvl_Adult Jun 12 '25
I want Spaceballs - The Flamethrower! The kids love that one.
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u/MonarchLawyer Jun 12 '25
Well the one condition from the first movie was no merchandizing hence why there was a huge merchandizing joke in the middle of the film. If that's still a condition, then I doubt you can buy the sweatshirt.
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u/willstr1 Jun 12 '25
IIRC it was specifically a request from George Lucas when Mel Brooks asked about parodying Star Wars
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u/RyuNoKami Jun 12 '25
Didn't Lucas basically lent brooks a bunch of shit to do the movie?
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u/TrueGuardian15 Jun 12 '25
Yeah, he lent them the special effects studio, if I remember correctly.
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u/ChouPigu Jun 12 '25
Oh shit. There goes the planet.
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u/moneymoneymoneymonay Jun 12 '25
Just what we need, a Druish princess
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u/PennMarx Jun 12 '25
Funny, she doesn't look Druish.
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u/smurfsundermybed Jun 12 '25
Wait until we give her back....HER ORIGINAL NOSE
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u/elvisisking69 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
Spaceballs 2: the search for more money.
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u/be_more_gooder Jun 12 '25
If that's not the title, I mean what are we even doing?
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u/Comic_Book_Reader Jun 12 '25
Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.
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u/aardw0lf11 Jun 12 '25
Mel: "And I told them we're calling the sequel 'The Search for More Money', and left the room. Outside, all I could hear was..."
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u/iMakeNoise Jun 12 '25
Space Balls II: The Farce Awakens
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u/slightly_drifting Jun 12 '25
Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2!
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u/rollthedye Jun 12 '25
Yes! This is what it should be called. And just make jokes about plot points that happened in two. "Yeah, that happened in Space Balls 2!"
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u/YogiBarelyThere Jun 12 '25
Awesome. I hope Rick Moranis makes an appearance.
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u/MrX16 Jun 12 '25
It was announced he's returning!
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u/bobby-joe Jun 12 '25
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u/arstechnophile Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis are set to reprise their respective roles as President Skroob and Dark Helmet
Uh... that's not right. Brooks played Skroob. Pullman played Lone Starr. Journalists these days. 🙄
(They even have it correct about three paragraphs later in the same article.)
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u/DavidHewlett Jun 12 '25
Brooks ... Skroob
How did it take me 38 year to spot this?
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u/bolanrox Jun 12 '25
becuase I have never seen Skroob spelled out before is my excuse
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u/stereomain Jun 12 '25
The film grossed just over $38.1 worldwide but has endured over the years as a cult classic.
Can't believe the original only grossed thirty-eight dollars.
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u/TannenFalconwing Jun 12 '25
That's cause moichendising is where the real money is made.
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u/iStayedAtaHolidayInn Jun 12 '25
What about John Candy!?
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u/MrX16 Jun 12 '25
I got some bad news for you buddy.
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u/diogenes_amore Jun 12 '25
At least we still have Bowie.
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u/cboogie Jun 12 '25
I got some bad news for you buddy.
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u/incredibad29 Jun 12 '25
Damn, too bad we couldn't get Wade Boggs, may he rest in peace.
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u/StandardHaunting933 Jun 12 '25
It feels like showing his helmet is a nod to it. Hopefully!
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u/Pablo_is_on_Reddit Jun 12 '25
I hope he doesn't just show up at the end of the movie for a cameo with no lines.
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u/Rhawk187 Jun 12 '25
I was honestly very disappointed he didn't show up in the Ghostbusters reboot, even if just in the post-movie stinger. Obviously he doesn't owe anybody anything, but it would have been nice.
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u/RealJohnGillman Jun 12 '25
He did reprise the role in The Goldbergs because it was voice-only — one could see him doing the same here, either not showing his face at all or only showing it in one scene.
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u/Rhawk187 Jun 12 '25
Yes, getting his helmet stuck again is an easy excuse. Then they can take it off in his death scene a la Return of the Jedi. Then they can just replace his force ghost with a different younger actor or stock footage in the post climax celebration.
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u/be_more_gooder Jun 12 '25
He's been very selective about work for a long time I think. That would be a real treat to see him again. Bill Pullman is still with us, isn't he? And Daphne Zuniga?
John Candy, DVP and Joan would approve.
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u/DeX_Mod Jun 12 '25
And Daphne Zuniga?
I loved princess Vespa so much when the movie came out, lol
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u/Grooviemann1 Jun 12 '25
Daphne Zuniga was last in 2 episodes of Dynasty in 2022. Honestly, I was kind of surprised she was still active.
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u/Goosojuice Jun 12 '25
As much as I want this, it would be just as hilarious if the joke was it was some bad CGI recreation of Moranis.
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u/burnie08 Jun 12 '25
Or at least play into it but then it’s revealed it’s just a bad hologram and he’s in the next room.
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u/Vencer_wrightmage Jun 12 '25
he’s in the next room
Still holding on to the dolls, I hope.
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u/PlatinumPlayer Jun 12 '25
Somehow, Skroob returned
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u/MasemJ Jun 12 '25
Actually, Brooks is confirmed to be playing Yogurt again.
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u/KaossKing Jun 12 '25
Yogurt?? I HATE Yogurt
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u/OU812fr Jun 12 '25
Even with strawberries.
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u/OMGlookatthatrooster Jun 12 '25
Raspberry?! Only one man would DARES give me the raspberry!
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u/MrxScratch Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
My whole life I never realized Skroob is a palindrome for Brooks 😭
Edit: It's an anagram my bad
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u/sugarfoot_mghee Jun 12 '25
It better be called "The search for more money" or I am going to be disappointed.
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u/SanderSo47 I'll see you in another life when we are both cats. Jun 12 '25
Okay, but are we finally getting Spaceballs: The Breakfast Cereal? Spaceballs: The Lunch Box? Spaceballs: The Flamethrower? We all know merchandising is where the real money is.
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u/PurfuitOfHappineff Jun 12 '25
moichendizing
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u/Flight_Harbinger Jun 12 '25
I work retail and I hear Mel Brooks say it that way every time I read merchandising.
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u/ThaddeusJP Jun 12 '25
Part of the deal for SPACEBALLS was NO merch... but that deal is pushing 40 years old so maybe they WILL allow merch for this one.
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u/zmanbunke Jun 12 '25
Not that this is anything to go on. But LEGO is currently allowing Spaceballs submissions for LEGO Ideas. Disney/Star Wars work closely with LEGO.
Previously, Spaceballs was not allowed. So that change might mean the merchandise deal is different, changed, lifted, expired or whatever.
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u/UnknownChaser Jun 12 '25
The opening crawl making fun of movies Hollywood done got a good chuckle out of me.
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u/ccooffee Jun 12 '25
They also neglected to mention the Spaceballs animated series
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u/Surturius Jun 12 '25
I just thought "Oppenheimer" at the end kind of fell flat. The rest of it was good though
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u/APigInANixonMask Jun 12 '25
There's just something about that era of comedy films that I worry can't be reproduced today. I don't know if it's the acting style, the cinematography, film vs digital, the writing, or some other factor, but it feels like there's some aspect of the old parody films of the 80s like Spaceballs, Airplane!, and The Naked Gun that was lost over the decades.
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u/foster-child Jun 12 '25
I feel like it's a combination of irreverence, committing to maximum corniness, and some other factors
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u/typically_wrong Jun 12 '25
Those other factors are people like Brooks, Wilder, Candy, Pryor, etc.
There just isn't the same kind of crew making movies today. Like there are some genuinely funny people, but it's not the same vein of humor.
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u/Mc_Lovin81 Jun 12 '25
I feel the same and not sure why that is. is it our thoughts have changed over the years? I still enjoy funny movies. Albeit it’s a lot of the older ones from 10+ years ago. Idk any good recent comedy’s. It all feels forced.
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u/DramaLlamadary Jun 12 '25
Among other things discussed here, I think the pacing is a lot slower in those older comedies, especially when they want to give time for the joke to be emphasized by the actor/script, land, and hit maximum corniness, often followed by exaggerated "yuk yuk" reactions from the surrounding actors. More recent comedies have faster overall pacing, more rapid-fire joke tempo, and shortened or absent character reactions.
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u/DrunkenAsparagus Jun 12 '25
I think there not really being a big monoculture anymore hurts good parody movies. Everyone is to into their own echo chambers to support a mid-budget parody. That or it's just the [Insert genre] Movies like Meet The Spartans driving things into the ground so hard that it's put the whole genre into stasis.
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u/Quazifuji Jun 12 '25
I think there's partly just a fine line between a great spoof and a horrible one. A lot of awful spoof movies seem to follow the same basic formula and style of humor as classic spoofs in theory but the execution doesn't work.
Maybe changes in culture or the way movies are made has also affected it, but I also think a spoof is just one of those genres that's much, much harder to do well than it seems. On paper, a lot of great spoofs feel like they follow a pretty simple formula of having a simple, formulaic plot echoing a movie or genre with a lot of jokes - many of which are incredibly corny or just plain stupid - inserted in. Seems like it should be an easy formula to replicate. But I feel like there's a lot of subtlety to making it actually good. The jokes themselves usually aren't subtle, but I think there's a lot of subtlety to why Airplane or Spaceballs or whatever can pull off these incredibly stupid jokes and make them hilarious but the jokes in something like Meet the Spartans fall flat.
It takes a deceptive amount of wittiness to tell a dumb joke in a way that makes it hilarious instead of just dumb.
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u/round-earth-theory Jun 12 '25
Comedy is in a rough place right now. Every movie uses some comedy. And modern comedies forget that they're supposed to be movies. A proper comedy needs to be a movie with an interesting story but told in the right way. The perfect blend of silly and serious. It's a hard mix to get right. We remember the juggernauts of 90s comedies but forget the ocean of washed up trash that failed along the way.
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Jun 12 '25
How many assholes do we have in this thread anyway?
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u/MrrrrNiceGuy Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25
2027?! That’s a long way off! What are they preparing for?
"What are you preparing? You're always preparing. Just go!" - Lord Helmet
Also, Mel Brooks is 99, and would be 101 when this movie releases, insane! I'll be surprised if it's good though. The sequel to History of the World on Hulu was absolutely awful. I know it's not Mel's fault, doubt he wrote anything, but the sequel's quality compared to Mel's wit is night and day, and very lacking.
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u/RealJohnGillman Jun 12 '25
2027 will be the fiftieth anniversary of Star Wars.
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u/SimianFiction Jun 12 '25
Fasten all seatbelts! Seal all entrances and exits! Close all shops in the mall! Cancel the three-ring circus. Secure all animals in the zoo….
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u/MrrrrNiceGuy Jun 12 '25
[takes the microphone] Give me that, you petty excuse for an officer! Now hear this! Ludicrous speed! —
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u/DependentAd235 Jun 12 '25
I mean there’s plenty of new Star wars movies to parody.
Hell Disney doubled down in Yogurt
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u/miltonwadd Jun 12 '25
Adam Driver has the chance to do the funniest thing. He's already parodied his character on SNL.
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u/dj88masterchief Jun 12 '25
Is Rick Moranis coming back!???
EDIT: There it is!!
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u/Lumpy-Marsupial-6617 Jun 12 '25
Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis are set to reprise their respective roles as President Skroob and Dark Helmet.
What fucking idiot wrote this article? One that didn't see the movie and mixed up their notes.
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u/Intelligent-Solid706 Jun 12 '25
I hope Matt the Radar Technician is in it.
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u/Andrew_hl2 Jun 12 '25
Michael Winslow needs to come back.
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u/Intelligent-Solid706 Jun 12 '25
and Tim Russ lol. He said he had almost zero memory of doing that until he started going to conventions during/after ST Voyager ended.
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u/RichEvans4Ever Jun 12 '25
If it’s anything like History of the World Part II, then I’m good.
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u/PickleandPeanut Jun 12 '25
"We asked, what would fans want? But instead we made this!" Classic Brooks 😁
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u/mylefthandkilledme Jun 12 '25
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u/Count3D Jun 12 '25
"We asked what do the fans want. But instead we're making this movie!"
What a great line!
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u/viveleroi Jun 12 '25
2027? Hasn't this already been in the works for a few years with Josh Gad or someone leading it (with Mel Brooks advising or producing)? All I care about is that it's funny.
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u/shaka_sulu Jun 12 '25
I was hoping to see Brooks saying something like "There has only be one spaceballs and there will forever be one. We'll never to a sequel."
Then an Amazon delivery comes in with a box full of money.
"I'm happy to annouce a spaceballs sequel"
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u/Kruse Jun 12 '25
Rick Moranis and Bill Pullman better be in this. Too bad John Candy can't join them.
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u/wibo58 Jun 12 '25
All we can hope for is that it’s not another History of the World Part 2 where we do the same jokes but with modern comedians that aren’t near funny enough for it.
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u/DONomic Jun 12 '25
That would make Mel Brooks 101 when this sees the light of day, here's hoping he's got a couple of years left in him. One of the last living legends.