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Mel Brooks Says 'Spaceballs' Sequel In The Works
BlueDino writes "Several news sites are reporting that Mel Brooks will release a sequel to Spaceballs. As far as a release date, Brooks says, 'Best case scenario: a week before the new Star Wars opens. Worst Case Scenario: a year after the new star wars opens.'"
This shouldn't be news to anyone, they already told us it was coming.
LONE STARR: Thanks. Well, we'd better get going. I wonder, we will we ever see each other again.
YOGURT: Who knows. God willing we'll all meet again in Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money.
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There goes the neighborhood.
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The Search for More Money
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we will have a pair of Spaceballs now?...
Lonestar shoots first!
Can't be worse then the last two Star Wars, and is more likely to be acted well too!
Maybe this will be as good as Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Oh wait, that sucked.
Mel's great but he jumped the shark after Young Frankenstein, Blazing Sadles and the Producers.
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Wow, that certainly is one movie I'll be looking forward to. Let's just hope it'll be able to live up to the quality and humour of first Spaceballs movie instead of ending up as yet another crappy and unfunny sequel; given Mel Brooks' mixed movie history (which included some really funny stuff, but also some rather crappy failed attempts) I'm not sure just what to expect, but I do hope for the best.
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I remember as a kid when that movie came out there was all these rumors (hey were little kids!) that they were coming out with Spaceballs 3: The search for Spaceballs 2. Anyone else hear that?
Could be the Greatest Movie Ever!
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My God, they've gone to plaid!
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If ever there was a series that needed mocking, it's the new starwars series. Anyone who's willing to throw a pie at lucas and his giant ego has got my vote.
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No, no no.
That was just kidding.
This will be "Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2"
And Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
...so who will play Barf?
Well, we don't know that yet, do we? Expect the worst, but hope for the best...
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"Yet another classic ruined by an unnecessary sequel."
I'm not so sure about this. If anyone but Mel was doing it I'd agree with you 100%. As it is I think it has the possibility of being even better than the first one.
I rarely watch movies in the theater (I hate crowds for one, and don't have the disposable income for another). This is one that I will be in line for, if only to add a couple bucks to Mel's pocket and to let the movie conglomerates know that real comedy is still sellable.
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I remember hearing that being the title when I was younger. Was that something Mel said once or just some random rumor that spread?
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I thought episodes 1 & 2 were already parodys of the star wars universe.
Yoghurt and the first one was the best experience I've had making a movie since Blazing Saddles.
I wish I could say the same for the audience. I love Brook's work, but by the time this came out, he was well past his best work. The Producers may be okay (as Broadway musicals go, which ain't far) but it's still older the Young Frankenstein or High Anxiety. The parody is very tired for all but the most slavish Star Wars fans.
I'm still waiting to SEE!!!...Jews in space!
Is they watch a scene from the original Spaceballs (from Mr. Rental, of course) and during the scene where Vespa picks up the gun, she shoots firsT. ;)
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I wonder what actors they would get for this one? I mean John Candy has passed away, but everyone else is available... right?
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With the release of the SE and the three new prequels, movies like Battlefield Earth, it won't be hard to find GREAT material for this movie.
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He could make a prequel that really sucks, but in a funny way.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
If Brooks really wants to do a good satire, he'll open SpaceBalls II with a flashback to the Yogurt scene 'SpaceBalls II' and then re-dub the dialogue to have a different title for SpaceBalls. Preferably by one of those bad-asian-flick re-dub voice actors, clearly re-dubbed and badly synched.
It'd be the perfect jab at Lucas's revisional approach to Star Wars...
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I hope they start the movie out with a review of the first one... by going to the "movie wall" and picking out Spaceballs 1 and then watching key portions... especially the part where Dark Helment goes head on into the control panels after dropping out of ludicrious speed.. and then some comment about how we were "never supposed to see that again"...
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Kind of like History of the World Part 2? "See Hitler on ice!" Man, I really wish that Brook's would have released that...
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The Star wars prequels have created so much stuff to parady it's unbelievable. I think they shoudl scrap the idea of a sequel and do a prequel. Adding young barf, lonestars father. (Could be darth helmet) So much story possibilty here. I have been telling co-workers for a while that we have needed a sequel/prequel to spaceballs. I'm wearing plaid to the theater!!!
... there goes the planet.
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or prequels, as the case may be, rarely live up to their predecessors even remotely. Spaceballs is to space hilarity as Star Wars is to space adventure. And both were sat on for ~20 years before their creator decided to continue. In Mel Brooks case, we've seen what he's released since the peak of Spaceballs, and let's just say that only makes things look worse -- "Dracula Dead and Loving It", anyone?
Oh well. The nice thing about Mel Brooks is that even if it turns out to be a good movie I won't miss much if I give the theatrical release a miss.
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Well i know i've read interviews with Brooks where he has said, pretty plainly, that he doesn't believe in sequals. This mounted with the fact that he jokingly refers to sequals in his movie. I'd really think that this may be some sort of offhand comment he was making just to stir things up. He does to comedy afterall!!!
Though on the other hand, if he made a sequal to anything it'd might as well be Spaceballs, with all the deal with the Star Wars Pre-quals.
Who knows.. he could be serious
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It's a line from the original film.
Surely a prequel would be more appropriate?
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If this movie is as good as the original, then all those horrible Star Wars prequels would not have been made in vain. They will at least be source material for another new classic. It will bring some measure of closure to my violated childhood memories. I hope Mel Brooks will throw a bone out to Star Wars fans and have a Jar-Jar + Ewoks massacre scene so we can at least pretend it really happened. J/K.
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Yet another classic ruined by an unnecessary sequel.
They didn't even make the movie yet and you're already pissing on it.
Honestly, I hope it blows, and I hope Brooks makes a ton of money, and I hope he makes a third which blows even more, and I want Lucas and Brooks to make a Seinfeldesque bizarro world Christmas special featuring Anakin and Dark Helmet and all their friends that look alike, and I want Kenner to release the special edition "Ruining geek childhood memories" action figure line. I just like seeing all you cranks bitch and moan over pointless things that you have no control over. It's great that you take this all so personally.
If anyone but Mel was doing it I'd agree with you 100%.
After "dracula dead and loving it" and "robin hood, men in tights" I don't have the trust in Mel Brooks to think that way, personally.
The fact that he's rehashing a semi-successfull outing makes me more nervous, in fact (of course he couldn't pick something too obvious, such as blazing saddles two or sth).
As it is I think it has the possibility of being even better than the first one.
No, that is highly, highly unlikely. A rehash is a rehash, wether it's parody or not.
Way to judge the movie before it has even been made.
Richard Branson and his cool rocket ship?
Dark Helmet getting his ass kicked on the Planet Of The Apes?
President Scroob gets thrown out of office and replaced by a big headed guy from Massachusetts?
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
mel brooks george lucas.
seriously: if brooks can adapt the producers from film to musical so well, i think he deserves the benefit of the doubt. we've never seen brooks do a sequel, despite the multiple-decade wait for history of the world, part 2.
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As long as it's better than Starballs.
Amazon has a new remastered Spaceballs DVD soon to be released. Aparently it has a lot of new scenes, here's a blurb from Mel Brooks:
"When we created the original SpaceBalls, we really didn't have enough money or the ability to fulfill my full artistic vision, but thanks to the dawn of computer graphics, the remastered SpaceBalls I DVD will finally allow the public to see my full, unhindered, artistic vision."
New features include:
- A CG sidekick Jin Dar Jinx, who beguiles audiences with his slapstick 'off-the-hook' hijinx!
- A 2 hour space battle.
- Set extensions created with 3D computer graphics modeled after miniature sets, which were used as matte backdrops in the original film!
- Computer Generated spacecraft copies of original model spacecraft, now allowing for motion blur!
- New, more realistic, contemporary, engine sounds for galatic space ships.
'Best case scenario: a week before the new Star Wars opens. Worst Case Scenario: a year after the new star wars opens.'
in other words, 'as soon as we can get the big star to sign the contract'
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Will they replace John Candy with CG?
Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money!
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However...
A big chunk of the problem was that Spaceballs came out nearly a decade after the (good) flick it was lampooning. But this one'll follow three big, sucking, black holes of craptacular filmmaking - and at worst, be only a year afterward. Mel will have bloated budgets, ridiculous self-importance, insipid dialog, wooden acting, and lots of other DESERVING targets of parody (Jar Jar, anyone?).
So, Spaceballs 2 could be the only redeeming reason for SW 1-3. At worst, it can't be much worse than the first...
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This movie will fail without that black dude that makes all the sound effects. That guy was the coolest back in the 80s...
......... jammed!
Best scene in the film:
Lone Star: Not if we jam em
[Cut scene of Jam hurtling through space hitting a radar]
Officer:We've been
Dark Helmet: Raspberry... nobody give me the Raspberry except.. LONE STAR.
Joan Rivers - who now only needs gold paint to resemble the original.
I hope that Brooks pokes a little fun at Lucas
by showing a scene from the first Spaceballs with
tons of excessive CGI characters inserted...
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WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO!
... I used to be able to pretty accurately quote the entire movie to boot. Of course, the problem right now is that most of us are adults/mature-type people. Most of us watched Spaceballs when we were kids, and watching people get shot in the crotch was funny. So there's bound to be all sorts of bitching if Mel Brooks makes another kids' movie, and we all go "wtf the guy gets hit in the crotch, that wasn't in the first one at all the first was so much better omgwtf ..... oh wait"
When I was a kid, I literally wore out the VHS copy of Spaceballs I owned
Too much repetition my too much repetition!
That Mel Brooks is in the process of preparing The Producers for another film based outing. It seems to still be doing very well on broadway, and a majority of people don't know that it was originally a Mel Brooks film.
If he is currently in the pre-production process of the producers he really shouldn't be able to start up something on Spaceballs. Perhaps this is just some new publicity stunt or something. Who the fuck knows.
Even assuming that Brooks can do the film low budget to get it green-lighted quickly, is it even possible to produced a mass-marketable motion picture in just 8 months? Even indie flukes like Blair Witch took time to gain momentum during production, and there's still the editing, distribution and merchandising infrastructure that must be deployed. That is where the real money from the movie is made, you know.
I just don't see this happening, especially since the material being parodied doesn't lend itself to a low budget. You just have to have enough SFX to make it look like a sci-fi flick, after all...
That said, I would like to see the follow-up to the "instant cassette" gag; that one got dated real quick, didn't it?
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Mel Brooks claimed he'd never make a Spaceballs 2. However, he might make a Spaceballs 3: The search for Spaceballs 2.
Recently, I came across Spaceballs on TV here, with subtitles, and the subtitling sometimes takes liberty with the script - for example to translate idiomatically.
When it came to the scene where they went to get the video of the movie to see what happened later, the subtitles diverged FAR from the original dialog in a much funnier way. Instead of "home video" the source of the film was....
Pirates.
Pirates?
Yes, Pirates. Piracy has become so rampant, that you can now get a copy of the movie before it is even finished!
Which is especially funny here, because often you can get pirated VCDs or VHS copies of movies before they're even released locally. The quality is horrendous, and the subtitling is
.Just for a price-check: A VHS copy of a film is about a dollar eighty, and a VCD is two dollars fifty. DVDs are sometimes burned, and they sell for four or five bucks. Bit-copies of commercial DVDs sell for as much as ten bucks.
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Sweeet, with new CGI Mega Maid would be the bomb. But will they try to use the original cast were possible? (John Candy has passed on so Barf should be no longer be kept in the story... pay some respect to the guy.)
Will it be Lone Stars kids? What about Dark Helmet? Are they going to have Rick Moranis back as the Dark Lord?
Yogert anyone??? How about Raspberry Jam???
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Man, you took the words right outta my mouth!
"Yet another classic ruined by an unnecessary sequel."
Is there such a thing as a classic being ruined by a necessary sequal?
...but I'm still waiting for Men in Tights on DVD!
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A Star Wars related movie I can look forward to seeing.
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He was a brilliant retard in "Drop Dead Gorgeous" and I think he'd make a wonderful Barfolomew Jr.
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I actually worked on the original Space Balls. I was a production assistant at the now defunct Apogee which did the effects for the film.
Apogee was the original ILM near Van Nuys airport, but John Dykstra kept it after ILM moved north. It was cool working there seeing some of the original models of the X-wing in the lobby of Apogee.
But this was way before CGI came to the scene.
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I've been conducting an informal survey over the years and I seem to be alone in my opinion that Spaceballs is horrible. It's second only to Mad Dog and Glory in the "worst movie ever" category. It wasn't funny; it was just stupid. I saw it in college after an evening of pizza and beer...just not funny. I like other Mel Brooks' movies. I like other movies that are funny: Army of Darkness. Animal House. Vacation. Caddyshack. Holy Grail. Life of Brian. Princess Bride.
I for one do not welcome our Spaceballs-sequel-making overlords.
Is if it makes more money than the Star Wars movie released around the same time.. funny because of the title, and well, because the new movies suck and I hope someone gets punished for the sucking.
It's not 'new', he just digitally enhances it.
A computer makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.
There are some other changes that will happen when B.S. is re-released as well involving the saloon scene which will have some cgi work as well to make it more catina-like.
So, Mel Brooks makes a hilarious film in 1968 called The Producers with Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel, who pretty much make the movie. Then he makes the Broadway musical, which, from what I hear, was amazing. Now he wants to make another movie called The Producers, this time with the exact same plot but different actors?
Please, Mr. Brooks, why re-invent the wheel? The original was brilliant, and doesn't need to be remade! Come out with something new and original instead of remakes and sequels.
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Spaceballs on regular TV is ok....spaceballs on cable or in FULL vulger language mode is fucking hillarious.
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That was uttered in a film that came out 15 years ago. Why would we believe a sequel was in the works just because of a Lucas-merchandising joke?
Incidentally, last year the rumor was that the sequel would be called "Spaceballs 3: The Search For Spaceballs 2."
Absolute worst case scenario: The new Star Wars opens.
can you tell the future? damn why do people have to bitch when they know absolutely nothing, damn.
Not sure the magazine was pulling my leg, but I heard a long, long time ago (1990?) that they were making Spaceballs 3. The title? "Spaceballs 3: In Search of Spaceballs 2".
Brilliant.
What about MEEPT?!?!
"Spaceballs" was a CLASSIC????
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I'm still waiting for "History of the World Part II" that he promised so long ago :)
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Crew: "YO!"
Dark Helmet: "I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes... Keep firing assholes!"
That part always made me laugh... I think they're gonna stick with what made the first movie funny and play off of how badly the new Star Wars movies turned out (IMHO ofcourse). That would explain why we haven't seen a sequel yet, Mel was just waiting to play off of George Lucas again... Well played, Mel.
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Of course, it has to be a prequel, about how Rick Moranis becomes Darth Helmet, possibly revealing more backstory about his father's sister's uncle's brother's cousin's roomate.
Must be that instant cassette feature.
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Considering that Mel is looking to time this with the release of Star Wars 3, I would not be the least bit surprised if they did indeed use Spaceballs 3 as the title, although perhaps not the "search for Spaceballs 2" sub-title.
About damn time.
I hope thats a mistake, because i'm loking forward to see a prequel.
And i hope the movie will leverage Star Wars Kid documentaries.
Mel Brooks was brilliant when he was teamed up with Gene Wilder. That's why Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein were wonderful.
Mel Brooks without Gene Wilder is mediocre at best.
Let's see the special edition re-release of the original.
Maybe John Candy will shoot first in this one.
So this is entirely appropriate.
I never found Spaceballs especially funny. It's more of an ethnic comedy than anything else - like most Mel Brooks movies. The jokes - like in most Mel Brooks movies - are racial, sexual and excretory. Blazing Saddles was not popular because it was an incisive parody of the western genre, it was popular because it was packed with crass and/or puerile humor. There's no difference between Mel Brooks and the Zuckers, or the Farrellys.
I'd far prefer to see a real parody of Star Wars done, ala Galaxy Quest for Star Trek, as opposed to one that merely takes the trappings and stuffs them with dick+fart jokes.
No sir, I didn't see you playing with your trolls again.
Heheh, I said come.
For comedic effect, the best idea for a subtitle was first proposed by Yogurt himself some 18 years ago: Spaceballs 2: The Quest for More Money!
My favorite line from the original was: Sir - she just went from suck to blow.
Gotta love it
What I'm really looking forward to, is to see sequel to "History of the World, Part I" , which was announced at the end of the movie: "History of the World, Part II: Jews In Space". Star Warescue hexagon (Star of David) shaped spaceships, shooting at some target with Star War sounds were hilarious.
It sucks as much as his last several movies. Don't get me wrong, I have great respect for the man and like so many others loved his early stuff - but nothing lately (Witness "Men in Tights") has been nearly as good.
Funny Mel Brooks movies are "The Producers", "Blazing Saddles", and "Young Frankenstein" . Pretty much everything that he's made since sucked. Much like Lucas and Woody Allen, he's basically used up every good idea he's had, and is just recycling.
Consider, say "High Anxiety", Brooks' spoof of "Vertigo" -- the funniest moment was when we hear dramatic music, and the main character looks around and sees the band playing it. Pretty clever, right? Well, it *would* be if he hadn't *already* used it in "Blazing Saddles"...
In all likelihood, Brooks will (among other things) be spoofing the concept of movie sequels. He's always been very willing to poke fun at the "meta" aspect of the films he parodies (that being, the moviemaking process itself), and Spaceballs was probably the best example of that out of all his movies.
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Ya know, just to be consistent. Or re-issue Spaceballs as "Spaceballs Episode 2 'I Planned This All Along'" and then come out with Episode 1 The Search For More Money
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ala George Lucas, with kinder gentler more PC space balls. Perhaps make them fluffy(harry)? That way when they bang into her chin while Lea's giving Han fellatio in the cantina, no innocent bystandards will have been hurt along with being rightous when he shoots Guido in self defense...
Wouldn't it be, "God wirring, we're arr meet again in Spacebarrs III: The Search for Spacebarrs II:?
Speckpot?
Oh no, shes gone from suck to blow! -Spaceballs
Brooks' key collaborator on writing Spaceballs was Ronny Graham, who passed away in 1999. Maybe Mel is still good enough, but without a good collaborating writer it could be a bomb. Brooks gave a lot of the credit for the success of Spaceballs to Graham's writing.
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Lucas et al could use some serious lampooning. It certainly seems that they disregard every fansite out there. Maybe they need the likes of Brooks to get themselves squared off.
I wish Brooks would write in a scene where a couple of the characters argue about whether Lone Star should have fired first or not. That would really tickle my funny bone.
...the movie actually gets made.
i'll be happy... Also, It would be a shame if pizza the hut didn't get .... excrimented by himself - because after all, he did eat himself to death.
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I just like seeing all you cranks bitch and moan over pointless things that you have no control over. It's great that you take this all so personally.
I actually find it funnier that nearly no one on Slashdot has a sense of humor anymore. They don't seem to care to dig deeper than the surface text and actually think about what was written.
So let's break it down for everyone:
You know what would be hysterical in the sequel? If they used good CGI that was actually adding another dimension to the film and not just wasted because the director had money! Oooh another funny thing would be to have a good script. Dialogue between Star Warsish characters would just be hysterical! Ahahha!
Obviously he was jabbing at the real Star Wars here and not the sequel. The more recent Star Wars movies have little or no dialogue and instead rely on overpriced CGI that no one really wants but that the director puts in because he likes it.
I have a feeling that they aren't going to show a young Dark Helmet. Instead they are going to show an old and feeble one that has to take Viagra to get his Schwartz up.
Obviously funny, again, because it is probably true. They might even rebrand the Viagra and have Dole fight Helmet for it.
Yet another classic ruined by an unnecessary sequel.
And now for the kicker! The original three Star Wars movies did just fine on their own. They were ok for their time and they actually had good special effects. Now the wealthy director makes three more to continue to live off the name created 20 years before and expects to be able to receive no criticism when he blows it.
I wish people here could understand sarcasm as it is obvious that some people still use it as a literary device. But I guess that's all over your helmets.
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Worst case scenario: The movie comes out at all.
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Blair Witch was also made on a tiny budget. Mel has made the most successful play in Broadway history. With that, he probably has the ability to throw money at problems that Blair Witch could only dream about.
He is a comedian, his estimate was clearly a joke. Anyone with a sense of humor would understand that there is no date set yet.
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Go Mell Brooks ! Please make something funny!
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Not only should you Mock Lucas - but like the
'Scary Movie' movies, toss in a few mocking scenes for
other popular sci fi - just a few...
star trek (any one)
battlestar galactica
I, Robot (have bots working at $tar-Buck$ coffee!)
X-files (oh please mock them!)
Men in Black
and working some good mocking of:
Titanic (in space)
Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter (I don't know how - your the writer!)
and The Passion
- go for it! Mel Gibson SHOULD be mocked by Mel Brooks!
I Look forward to buying the tickets!
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Personally I can't wait for the double secret special edition to come out on DVD. I hear Mel has changed it to suck rather than just blow!
Didn't the Onion have a thing where they "announced" that they were going to have Jonathan Lipnicki play the young "Darth Helmet" in the Spaceballs prequel? A friend of mine thought that the perfect name for that would be "Spaceballs -2" (Spaceballs 1 minus the difference between Star Wars I and Star Wars IV).
But Jon Lipnicki does look like a really young Rick Moranis, or did, so that would actually be pretty funny.
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He did have Hitler on stage, that's almost as good.
Preferably by one of those bad-asian-flick re-dub voice actors, clearly re-dubbed and badly synched.
because gee gosh golly, THAT conceit hasn't been overdone...
"I DARE you to make less sense!"
After "dracula dead and loving it" and "robin hood, men in tights" I don't have the trust in Mel Brooks to think that way, personally.
Are you crazy? That movie had some of the greatest lines of all time....
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Blinkin: Yes.
Robin Hood: And my mother?
Blinkin: She died of pneumonia while -- while you were away.
Robin Hood: My dog Pongo?
Blinkin: Run over by a carriage.
Robin Hood: My goldfish Goldie?
Blinkin: Eaten by the cat.
Robin Hood: My cat?
Blinkin: Choked on the goldfish. It's great to be home, isn't it, Master Robin?
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no, booo, ...why, simple...john is dead!
Sorry AC, wrong answer...
From the FAQ at www.ilmfan.com:
Lucas decided to build his own facility, and he hired John Dykstra to head the facility. It was located in old warehouses in Van Nuys, California.
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All the misinformation in your post makes me question your original assertion that you ever worked in the space balls movie.
I hope others catch you in your lies and mod you down to -5 liar.
Actually, you're very wrong indeed. ILM DID start at the same facilities as Apogee...I know, I was fucking there. Where YOU there? Of course not, course, couldn't prove it either way since you hid behind an anonymous coward post.
Apogee didn't start up shop until AFTER ILM moved north, Dykstra remained behind and went on his own and did Battlestar Galactica.
Hell, you can even look at old pictures of them doing the original Star Wars where they're out in the parking lot shooting some of the Death Star scenes. That was the same parking lot at Apogee!
Sheesh. Also, I was a production assistant, which ment that I took film to the lab...that's it. I didn't work on the film per-se...I was a peon. Want the name and address of the Lab I took the film to also?
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
This is definitely a movie I'll want to see, but I'd like to see History of the World: Part II even more. It's good to be the king!
-Rich
I've been waiting for this day! Mel Brooks is a comedic genius and space balls absolutely rocked.
I still joke around with a guy at work about the luggage combo. "Yes i need an invoice" 'Ok the number is 1..2...3...4...5."
And how can we forget good ol pizz the hut!
And..and..and...this is the best part, while it may/may not be better than the first space balls, I'm confident in Brooks' ability to now screw it up like the debacle known as episode 1!!!
Since another parody of the original trilogy would seem a bit dated, I think it's more likely that the next Spaceballs will satirize the prequel--which would mean that very few of Spaceballs' castmembers would return to reprise their original roles.
It's probably wishful thinking, but I really hope that the cast includes a lot of old greats in true Brookes fashion, rather than a assemblage of Hollywood's current mugging dipshits of the week... you know, the ones who wouldn't know comic timing and subtle humour even if it cut them a check for $7 million?
Could this be the long-awaited Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II that was rumored all those years ago?
Sigmentation fault - core dumped
Your most-used password is: 1-2-3-4-5, right?
"If a boss demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty." (John Boyd, 1927-1997)
"ILM was then housed in an old warehouse in an industrial area of Van Nuys (on or near Kester St, as I recall). By coincidence, Van Nuys was where I grew up, so I knew the area well."
-- Alan Dean Foster, Some interview
"In fact, Apogee was none other than the original shop set up for Industrial Light and Magic in Van Nuys, California, by George Lucas in 1975."
-- Some site on model building
"At this point, John Dykstra got a call from Glen Larson. Glen had contacted either George Lucas or Gary Kurtz to find out if he and Universal could lease the ILM Van Nuys facility we had used to create the VFX for Star Wars, in order to shoot Battlestar Galactica."
-- Some site with an ad that wants to install an IE plug-in
"Lucas hired effects expert John Dykstra to head a new production facility, located in old warehouses in Van Nuys, California. After completing Star Wars he relocated ILM to the Bay Area." .edu site about the history of CG
-- Some
That's just a few picks from the first page of Google results, too.
To respond to that idiot anonymous troll earlier, a quick Google search will show quite a few sites and quotes such as:
LIGHTING V'GER - a site about the original Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Apogee closed it's doors a couple of years ago, but in 1979 it was barely two years old, having formed when Dykstra, and several other key players from Lucas' Star Wars, remained at the former ILM facility in Van Nuys after Lucas moved north.
Hollywood VFX Master, Richard Edlund, Talks About His Work On The Original Battlestar Galactica
At this point, John Dykstra got a call from Glen Larson. Glen had contacted either George Lucas or Gary Kurtz to find out if he and Universal could lease the ILM Van Nuys facility we had used to create the VFX for Star Wars, in order to shoot Battlestar Galactica. And apparently, George agreed to it. So our main team, minus Robby Blalack, signed on to do the Galactica visual effects.
And one more:
A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation
Lucas hired effects expert John Dykstra to head a new production facility, located in old warehouses in Van Nuys, California. After completing Star Wars he relocated ILM to the Bay Area.
Apogee was the FX facility created by John Dykstra, the original Star Wars supervisor. John Dykstra decided not to move to Northern California and opened shop in the old ILM facilities of Van Nuys. There he worked on several projects like Star Trek The Motion Picture, Firefox and Invaders From Mars. In 1993 Apogee closed. John Dykstra continued working as an independent VFX Supervisor and currently works for Imageworks on such projects as Stuart Little and Spider-Man.
Ok class...any questions?
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
Amen!
The music is all around us. I can hear it. Can you?
>The jokes - like in most Mel Brooks movies - are racial, sexual and excretory. Blazing Saddles was not popular because it was an incisive parody of the western genre, it was popular because it was packed with crass and/or puerile humor. There's no difference between Mel Brooks and the Zuckers, or the Farrellys.
You ought to give "Young Frankenstien" a try. Sure, it contains a bit of low-brow humor, and some of it is over the top, but overall it is a very incisive parody of a monster movie.
Of course, It might not be that way if Gene Wilder didn't have his hand in it, but that's beside the point.
This comment really needs to be modded up!
...
Great point!
Spaceballs -1 : The Phantom Cracker Jack Box
Lonestar: I lost the ring!
Yogurt: Forget the ring. The ring is popcus - I found it in a cracker jack box.
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Fuck that soap opera in space Star Wars.
:'(
But who will play Barf now that Candy is dearly departed?
may the yogurt be with you
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
How about releasing "Spaceballs The Flamethrower"?
Everytime I go to the mall and ask if it's available yet, they call security on me.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Mod this up up up
Spaceballs II: The Menacing Phantom
i saw it as saying that john candy had such great talent, no one person could ever replace him
"You're arguing for a universe with fewer waffles in it," I said. "I'm prepared to call that cowardice."
On his death bed in 'Mad About You', when he is trying to persuade them to name the baby after him. You could just tell that every scene he was in was barely scripted and a lot of fun.
Young Frankenstein, although not with him in it, is is classic humour....
Just because your paranoid doesn't really mean they aren't out to get you
This should not be modded as a troll. Are the mods on crack today?
Regards,
Steve
I dont think the shift in comedy has anything to do with "attention spans," which is at best a ham-fisted word used as a generic complaint about modern times.
I think the best commentary on modern humor I've seen was the Simpsons episode in which Krusty retires. Krusty's old-school brand of Brooks-like comedy simply grew old and hackneyed. The comedians in this episode were of the typical genx-stock irreverant kind, but also the kind who would look down upon the old Brooks/Don Rickles ethnic-type jokes.
This commentary is even more interesting as its a Simpsons episode, a show which pretty much defines post-modern humor. Things simply grow old and change. I don't see how the attention span complaint applies here. Its not like Don Rickles was ever known for his long drawn out monologues or anything and a lot of Brooks' gags and movies are pretty far from sophistication. If anything Brroks is a versatile performer/writer/director who can do anything from vaudville-esque comedy to today's postmodern stuff. Although his attempts at the latter do seem to suffer and his best work tends to lean on the "silly, simple gags" side.
Mod parent up! That would be hilarious, and maybe the kid could get some redemption for his embarassment.
Exactly!!
Oh wait, you are saying that's a bad thing?
*plonk* opinion rejected.
"'Yrch!' said Legolas, falling into his own tongue."
Also a fat actor, and one with some serious acting credentials.
---If you can't trust a nerd, who can you trust?
Does this mean he's going to digitally remaster the first Spaceballs? Will we see that never before seen footage of Pizza the Hutt at the spaceport?
Hurry and buy the original Spaceballs before you can't get anything but the remastered version!
If you are reading this, then you are one of those people whom I just can't take seriously.
...and it plays right into the hands of the satire:
:)
"Barf? You look different."
"No, see? I'm the same Barf I always was."
*cut to scene from Spaceballs: The Movie with Barf replaced by poorly digitally edited-in New Barf where Old Barf used to be*
Oh, and MadTV rocks.
You are soooo off base on that one. "Blazing Saddles" if funny not because of the words, but who is speaking them. Its sendup of the western genre turns everything on its head, and yet shows probably a truer picture of how people actually spoke prior to the sanitizing effect of the movies.
Remember, in the "Old West" (hell, anything prior to the 60's), people actually used the word nigger with relative frequency and unselfconciously. Contrast that to "Unforgiven," which won an award and was praised for its "real" look at the Old West, where "nigger" was never spoken, even as they were whipping Morgan Freeman to death.
People don't laugh at the use of "nigger" in "Blazing Saddles," they laugh at the confusion and consternation of the people who use the word so blithely to refer to an authority figure.
But yeah, the farting scene had no social value - but it was funny as hell.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
You mean how it says "+5 Funny"?
OP was right. You are a prick.
Mel was -awesome- in his older days--the Producers is legendary comedy.... ....
Then he kinda wussed out, the stories got weaker on down the line, and then he canned all the racial and sexual jokes and made a sappy movie about homeless people.
That NOBODY liked.
Will this be the new Mel or the old?
PS: I think Oprah Winfrey should play Barf.
Perhaps attempting to watch his films without wearing your backside as a hat may improve your viewing experience.
...it would be funnier if it were a prequel and not a sequel.
Could this be George Lucas's acknowledgement that the Star Wars series could not possibly become any more rediculous.
I'm still waiting for Star Wars to come out on DVD. Does anyone know when the movie (not Lucas's botched remake) is coming out?
... is either "The Spaceballs Christmas Special" or the Broadway production.
That is all.
...and then follow it up with a sequel that really /blows/.
WOW, I never thought that the sequel would be released. I heard a number of years ago that one was going to be made. I believe the title was "SpaceBalls 3: The search for SpaceBalls 2" Now we only have to wait for "The history of the world Part 2"
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... gets tortured somwhere in a corner.
The moment I saw the headline I knew, as if God Himself had come down and told me, that Jar Jar Binks would somehow be involved. Mark my words...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
My opinion is that Spaceballs is the dividing line in Brooks' output. Most of the stuff before it ranges from great to awesomely brilliant (with the highlights being Young Frankenstein and the movie version of The Producers), most of the stuff after is rather lame.
- The good ones -
The Producers: We still watch this one. We even own the soundtrack from the Broadway show and have obsessively read through the book of the show. One of the funniest movies ever made, I'd put it up there with Duck Soup.
Young Frankenstein: Almost as great, but in a very different way. It goes back and forth between working as a Frankenstein movie and being a brilliant parody of them.
Blazing Saddles: This is the one that hit it big, and the production values are very high. I actually think the humor is a little too random in places, the bugs bunny "telegram" scene sticks out in my mind, and the movie almost melts down at the end, but all in all I still like it.
Silent Movie: I like this one a lot, but it's not seen much these days. Worth seeing for Marty Feldman, Young Frankenstein's Igor, in his only other Brooks-directed role.
Other earlier movies include High Anxiety (Hitchcock parody), To Be Or Not To Be (which I've never even seen in a video store) and The Twelve Chairs (which I know nothing about).
- So-so movies -
Spaceballs:
Some people I know who used to really like this one, including myself, have changed opinions recently. It certainly has some great moments, but sometimes it seems taken with its own cleverness. The "Mega Maid" bit doesn't really work for me, John Candy seems a little too taken with his own lines ("Funny, she doesn't look Druish"), and while Rick Moranis is perfectly cast as Dark Helmut, the leading man and lady (whose names I can't even remember) are really bland. This is the beginning of that phase in Brook's career where he started attracting big-name stars, and his films tend to suffer for it. I'd pay *money* (well, ticket-money, not movie production-money) to see another Mel Brooks/Gene Wilder collaboration, but Mel's tone on the Young Frankenstein DVD commentary makes it sound like that's unlikely.
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights -
I really disliked this one, though the staff-fighting scene on the bridge is very clever there isn't a lot I enjoyed.
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It -
Haven't seen it, and there is probably no force on earth that could make me.
Somewhere in there is Life Stinks, which I want to see but can't seem to find.
What have I missed?
Jay: "What the fuck is the internet?"
Ben Affleck: "The internet is a communications tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another."
Mel Brooks doesn't seem to like our bagels.
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Yogurt: And God willing we'll all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The search for more money.
See? Mel Brooks himself (or insert scriptwriter here) even set the movie up for a sequel.
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I guess we've forgotten about History of the World, Part I? Yeah, you are a dumbass! Probably one of the best comedies of the Eighties. "It's good to be the king" Check here for more hilarious lines from the movie: http://www.garnersclassics.com/qhiswrld.htm
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What I want to know is, will they use the sequel title mentioned by the Yogurt character in the original movie, i.e.:
Spaceballs II: The Search for More Money
Global warming is neither science, nor politics. It is a religion.
And we all know that Mel Brooks would never do a gag to death...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
These days it's not acceptable to have a sense of humor.
Why?
Because hitler had a sense of humor, and we all see how that turned out.
Observe:
Soldier:"The jews didn't invite you to the big bar mitzvah, mein furher!"
Chancellor Hitler:"Talk about pretentious! Bastard jews, Kill zem all ven I rule zee vorld!"(giggles at the thought of killing the jews over a silly bar mitzvah)
Soldier:"Yes sir! We'll have them destroyed immediately, and we'll have the democratic government disbanded so you can begin the process of taking over zee world!" (walks off)
new dictator Hitler:(stops laughing)"Vat just heppened?"
Now you aren't allowed to laugh at stupid jokes anymore. You have to have at LEAST thirteen layers of humor, because otherwise someone might not get the joke if it isn't funny from absolutely every angle. The only other joke allowed is the pretentious "hah, I caught the reference, and it's amusing because I don't think most people did" jokes. Those are popular because in soviet russia jokes tell you(with naked and trembling natalie portman and hot grits) , but only in japan.
It's been a long time.
ie: What about IMDB's rating: 5.6/10 (8,939 votes)
"I knew it, I'm surrounded by assholes!" -Dark Helmet
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Mel Brooks is raping my childhood!!!
What are you talking about? I've already downloaded it on Bittorrent!
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Mel Brooks makes political and social commentary by the absurdity in many of his movies.
If you can't see this, then you don't "get it".
Kind of like Archie Bunker showed us, through humor, how funny it can be to laugh at, not with, a racist bigot.
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HELMET: How could there be a cassette of Spaceballs- the Movie. We're still in the middle of making it. SANDURZ: That's true, sir, but there's been a new breakthrough in home-video marketing. HELMET: There has? SANDURZ: Yes. Instant cassettes. They're out in stores before the movie is finished.
The question of my mind is who is going to take over from John Candy in the role of Barf? You can't easily replace such a comic genius -- assuming you can at all.
But Maaa! Everyone else has a
Monty Python disbanded when Graham Chapman died.
It's unlikely that they will ever get back together, as he was the soul of the show.
This is a good thing, IMO, because Monty Python would not be the same today.
Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, Monty Python, the original SNL cast, were all quite funny, but were products of their times.
I doubt that they would be as successful today.
Back on-topic, I don't see why Brooks is making a SB sequel.
The original wasn't all that funny.
In fact, except for Blazing Saddles, The Producers, and Young Frankenstein, nothing that Brooks has done is really very funny.
(At most, it's mildly amusing.)
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
Actually, I think Brooks is noticably more old-fashioned-- he's much more likely than the others to merely make crass jokes about bare female breasts, rather than showing them outright. He understands the old Vaudeville merits of the tease. It's rather mindboggling to imagine ("Baby, I'm not from Havana!"), but Mel may have some sense of restraint or taste in his work.
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"Space Balls 2: the search for more money" was what yogurt said in the movie so why shouldn't that be the title.