Spaceballs sequel receives official title
Following initial news that Mel Brooks‘ sci-fi spoof comedy Spaceballs, originally released in 1987, is getting a sequel, the filmmaker and Amazon MGM Studios have just released the official title for the follow-up film. Spaceballs: The New One will see original cast members Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, George Wyner, and Brooks himself return, in addition to newcomers Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman and Anthony Carrigan. The sequel is set to be directed by Josh Greenbaum, with Josh Gad, Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit sharing writing credits as a trio.
The original film parodied several classic sci-fi releases, such as the original Star Wars films by creator George Lucas, alongside Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It centred on a princess being saved from a band of evil forces by a mercenary and his extraterrestrial companion, with the band, known as the spaceballs, finding themselves lost on a desert moon.
Brooks’s Spaceballs took a budget of $22.7 million and turned it into a worldwide gross of $40.3 million, yet earned a mixed bag of reviews.
According to reports, Spaceballs: The New One reads as ‘a Non-Prequel Non-Reboot Sequel Part Two but with Reboot Elements Franchise Expansion Film’. The project was first teased by writer Gad back in 2024, who took to Instagram to share: “Just handed in a film script that I think may be the funniest and best thing I’ve ever worked on, and I am so freaking excited.”
Spaceballs: The New One flies into cinemas on the 23rd April, 2027.
Source: Dark Horizons
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