(JEWISH GROUP) 10 things we can (probably) expect from 'Spaceballs 2' [View all]

In what’s being sold as a fully transparent cash grab, Mel Brooks announced today the coming of Spaceballs II, a sequel to his 1987 Star Wars spoof that he only made because his kid liked George Lucas’ space operas.

Brooks broke the news, true to Spaceballs: The T-Shirt, Spaceballs: The Cereal, Spaceballs: The Flamethrower-fashion, with a lengthy crawl listing the proliferation of over-franchised intellectual properties, as if to say “Why not make another thing no one needs or asked for?”

But unlike Spaceballs: The First Movie, and more like Young Frankenstein, this film does appear to be a labor of love rooted in nostalgia and spearheaded by actor Josh Gad, who said, in an Instagram post, he saw Brooks’ riff on the galaxy far away before he saw the original films.

“It is therefore the greatest gift of my life to now help take the reins and work alongside Mel and this incredible group to do a sequel to the movie that first inspired George Lucas,” posted Gad, set to star in and co-write the film, set for a 2027 release.

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