Josh Gad is ready to star in a Spaceballs sequel directed by Josh Greenbaum (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) for Amazon MGM Studios. Gad additionally co-wrote the script with Benji Samit (Detective Pikachu) and Dan Hernandez (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem) and is producing the venture alongside Mel Brooks. Plot particulars for Spaceballs 2 are being saved underneath wraps presently. The unique 1987 film starred Invoice Pullman as Lone Star, John Sweet as Barg, Daphne Zuniga as Princess Vespa, Rick Moranis as Lord Darkish Helmet, and Mel Brooks as President Skroob and Yogurt.
Deadline experiences that manufacturing for the Spaceballs sequel is now underway, and there are two further items of casting information. Anthony Carrigan, who broke out in HBO’s Barry, had a supporting position in 2020’s Invoice and Ted Face the Music and was not too long ago seen in Superman, shall be becoming a member of the Star Wars parodying comedy. George Wyner of A Severe Man additionally joins the manufacturing to reprise his position as Colonel Sandurz. Together with the beginning of manufacturing, Deadline has additionally handed alongside a launched image of the desk learn for the script, which mirrors the same promotion for J.J. Abrams’ The Drive Awakens. Mel joins through Zoom, and hilariously, there’s even a chair for a pizza, which suggests Pizza the Hut (or relative) could also be making a return.
Described as “A Non-Prequel Non-Reboot Sequel Part Two but with Reboot Elements Franchise Expansion Film,” the Spaceballs sequel may also see the return of Invoice Pullman as Lone Starr, Daphne Zuniga as Princess Vespa, and Mel Brooks as Yogurt. New additions embrace Gad, Keke Palmer, and Lewis Pullman, who will naturally play the son of Lone Starr and Princess Vespa. The movie has been slated for a 2027 launch. Josh Greenbaum (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) will direct from a script by Gad, Benji Samit, and Dan Hernandez.
Gad has teased that the script has garnered lots of optimistic suggestions, saying, “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.” He additionally teased having Rick Moranis, saying, “Well, I am not going to comment on whether or not Rick Moranis is returning, but hypothetically, if he were to return, I would say it’s because Rick would have felt like this was a project worthy of his return.” Gad additionally mentioned, “So watch this house. However what I can say is it’s surreal. It’s surreal as a result of I grew up with Spaceballs and when the film was prophesized within the first movie, when Yogurt says, ‘God willing, we’ll all meet once more in Spaceballs 2: The Seek for Extra Cash,’ I, like everybody else, was simply anticipating that that will occur earlier than 40 years later.“
Gad continued, “However I’m so grateful it took that lengthy as a result of it’s the best present on Earth to have the ability to not solely be on the precipice of taking pictures this film, however to have the ability to do it whereas Mel continues to be with us. So I’m thrilled. I’m past excited, and that’s about all I can say for now.“
