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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.'"
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?
...so who will play Barf?
"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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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.
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...
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!!!
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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They did din't they.. but then at the end of history of the world part 1 they promised us Hitler on Ice and Jews in Space but they never got any of it done.. must be all that high anxiety in show business, or was it Joan Rivers that got pregnant? Oh whatever, just get me to Mr. Coffee...
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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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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???
...but I'm still waiting for Men in Tights on DVD!
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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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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Since we're being informative, I will also point out that the Jews in Space tune seems to be a Mel Brooks favorite.
Compare...
We're Jews, we're Jews in space...
Patrolling the skies defending the Hebrew race
with
We're men, we're men in tights
We roam around the forest looking for fights
I love Mel Brooks as much as the next geek, but it's amusing to see what a one-trick pony he is sometimes.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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Gotta disagree, and say that Star Wars was the best. Empire was good, but Star Wars stood by itself. Involving, action-packed, love-interest that wasn't predominant or over-bearing, and most importantly, a solid ending. Empire needed a sequel, 'cause of the questions it left (Han, Darth/Luke etc.)
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Fuck that soap opera in space Star Wars.
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But who will play Barf now that Candy is dearly departed?
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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....
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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.
Will they be able to change the Instant Videocasettes?
(note: for a seriously 'damn...'-inducing monent, watch that scene on the dvd version. you really notice the quality between dvd and vhs.)
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Mel Brooks doesn't seem to like our bagels.
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