{"id":53603,"date":"2025-06-12T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=53603"},"modified":"2025-06-13T17:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T21:45:16","slug":"mel-brooksspaceballs-2-rick-moranis-bill-pullman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/12\/mel-brooksspaceballs-2-rick-moranis-bill-pullman\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Brooks Announces SPACEBALLS 2, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman Returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53608\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Spaceballs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Spaceballs.jpg\" alt=\"Spaceballs Mel Brooks\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Spaceballs.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Spaceballs-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via MGM\/UA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Somehow, Dark Helmet is returning.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not really. That somehow is actually Amazon MGM and the studio has announced that <strong>Spaceballs 2<\/strong>, the sequel to Mel Brooks&#8217; 1987 popular science-fiction film parody, is going into production with a theatrical release targeted for some time in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks himself made the announcement on social media &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I told you we\u2019d be back <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RnoklPqBX6\">pic.twitter.com\/RnoklPqBX6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mel Brooks (@MelBrooks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelBrooks\/status\/1933196954273755322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>While Brooks is returning to play his Yoda parody character Yougurt for the film, directorial duties will be handled by <strong>Barb And Star Go To Vista Del Mar<\/strong> 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 <strong>Spaceballs<\/strong> 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&#8217;s Mawg, &#8220;half man, half dog&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>The news of Moranis&#8217;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 <strong>Honey I Shrunk The Kids<\/strong> legacy sequel. That was announced in 2020, but the project has apparently stalled out in development.<\/p>\n<p>While the studio had been trying to get a sequel off the ground for several years, the first solid news of a potential <strong>Spaceballs<\/strong> 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 &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C77KSWWRPNp\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; 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