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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?"
we will have a pair of Spaceballs now?...
Lonestar shoots first!
"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!
Bryan R.
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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?
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I thought episodes 1 & 2 were already parodys of the star wars universe.
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...
Obligatory Simpsons quote:
"You mean Mel Brooks is Jewish??!"
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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.
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!
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.
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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:-)
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.
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
That's quite a long jump, 1974 (Fankenstein) to 2001 (Producers).
Isn't it more fair to say that he's had his hits and misses over his 65+ year career?
Anyway, the point is that while much of his work in the 90s was pure crap, his career can now officially be considered back off life support.
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.
Karma: Can only be portioned out by the Cosmos.
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.
Gotta love it
Newsflash buddy, there's a LOT of people out there who loved Men in Tights.
Yet another ignorant person who assumes that their opinion is fact...
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>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.
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.
In the future you may want to slide the words "the movie" in there somewhere.