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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.
"TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"
There goes the neighborhood.
we will have a pair of Spaceballs now?...
Lonestar shoots first!
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.
Blaze a trail to the New World
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
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!
John
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?
"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 thought episodes 1 & 2 were already parodys of the star wars universe.
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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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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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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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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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.
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.
We aint found SHIT!
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...
God is my Palm Pilot.
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?
Those who complain about affect & effect on
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???
+1 Bitter Bastard... :)
...but I'm still waiting for Men in Tights on DVD!
Will Sasso
:-)
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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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.
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.
Dark Helmet: "How many assholes do we have on this ship anyhow?"
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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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.
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.
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.
...The kids love that one."
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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.
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.
(Classic like "Airplane!," not classic like "It's A Wonderful Life")
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Go Mell Brooks ! Please make something funny!
:-)
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!
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!
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
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"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.
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"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
>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.
Fuck that soap opera in space Star Wars.
:'(
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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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.
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.
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?
Mel Brooks doesn't seem to like our bagels.
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