Somehow, Dark Helmet is returning.
Well, not really. That somehow is actually Amazon MGM and the studio has announced that Spaceballs 2, the sequel to Mel Brooks’ 1987 popular science-fiction film parody, is going into production with a theatrical release targeted for some time in 2027.
Brooks himself made the announcement on social media –
I told you we’d be back pic.twitter.com/RnoklPqBX6
— Mel Brooks (@MelBrooks) June 12, 2025
While Brooks is returning to play his Yoda parody character Yougurt for the film, directorial duties will be handled by Barb And Star Go To Vista Del Mar director Josh Greenbaum with Benji Samit, Dan Hernandez and Josh Gad providing the screenplay. Amazon had no further comment on casting through trade reports suggest that Spaceballs cast members Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis are set to return for the sequel as the heroic Lone Star and the bumbling villain Dark Helmet respectively. Gad is also rumored to have an unknown role in the film. (Though if we had to guess, we would maybe place some money on Gad playing the son of the late John Candy’s Mawg, “half man, half dog”.)
The news of Moranis’s participation is especially exciting. The actor had been in virtual retirement for the last several decades, raising his family. He had reportedly been approached to appear in a number of different projects, but turned them all down with the exception of a potential Honey I Shrunk The Kids legacy sequel. That was announced in 2020, but the project has apparently stalled out in development.
While the studio had been trying to get a sequel off the ground for several years, the first solid news of a potential Spaceballs follow up came last year when comic actor/writer Gad hinted that he had participated in the writing of the project in an Instangram post –
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