Josh Gad is ready to star in Spaceballs 2 for Amazon MGM, which he additionally co-wrote and can produce alongside the good Mel Brooks.
In the end, Spaceballs 2: The Seek for Extra Cash may lastly change into a actuality. In keeping with Jeff Sneider, 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 can produce the venture alongside Mel Brooks.
Plot particulars for Spaceballs 2 are being stored beneath wraps right now, however 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. Though the movie was primarily a parody of Star Wars, it additionally included some humourous nods to Alien (with John Harm reprising his well-known function) and Star Trek.
Apart from serving as a joke within the movie itself, the thought of a Spaceballs sequel has been bounced round for fairly a while. Mel Brooks spoke about eager to make a sequel with Rick Moranis near a decade in the past, however nothing got here of it. For the reason that launch of the unique Spaceballs film, we’ve seen the discharge of numerous Star Wars tasks, together with the prequel trilogy, the sequel trilogy, varied TV exhibits, and extra, so I’d wager there’s numerous potential materials to the Spaceballs sequel to mine for laughs.
It’d be onerous to think about Spaceballs 2 with out no less than a couple of members of the unique forged making an look. It might be nice to see Rick Moranis once more, however the actor has largely retired, though he did reprise the function of Darkish Helmet for an episode of The Goldbergs in 2018. He was additionally set to return as Wayne Szalinski for a sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Children (which was additionally set to star Josh Gad) earlier than that venture fell aside. So maybe it’s not exterior the realm of risk that he may very well be lured again.
What do you hope to see from Spaceballs 2? Ought to the sequel even occur?
