A very surprising announcement from Mel Brooks

Cafe Society
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Short video, very amusing:

Yes, it’s Spaceballs 2.

Evidently Pullman will be back, and they’ve convinced Moranis to take a break from retirement.

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Will there be Yogurt?

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“We asked, ‘what do the fans want?’ But instead we’re making this movie.”

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Hope I look that good when I’m 2000!

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I retract my initial comments about casting. I got excited based on an uncited rumor.

Here are official details.

Note that Brooks is producing (and reprising Yogurt) but not directing. Man’s 99, after all.

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Yogurt is in better shape than Barf.

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Let’s see if he can get Harrison Ford or William Shatner to do a walk-on.

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I haven’t been this excited for a movie in a long, long time.

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I’m not that optimistic. A couple of years ago, he produced a limited series continuation of History of the World, Part I that aired on Hulu and it was, I thought, kind of disappointing. I don’t think I ever finished watching it.

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That makes two of us…

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I thought that was Reiner.

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Just plain yogurt

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They’d better get his scenes in the can* very first thing.

*Old film technology jargon. Nothing to do with bathrooms.

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Deadline has your back.

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Not until they finish the Dick Van Dyke cameo.

(as King Roland II, natch)

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I presume these are references to “The 2000 Year Old Man”, which was Carl Reiner interviewing Mel Brooks who was 2000 years old. Absolutely hilarious series of sketches.

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I hope it’s as good as Top Gun: Maverick was! (36 year gap … 1986 - 2022)

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I might be in the minority here but I found Spaceballs to be painfully unfunny. Saw it when it came out when I was 17 when Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles were what I considered comedy classics at the time. I thought it was awful.

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Spaceballs is more purely a spoof, and it’s all about the gags: if the gags don’t work for you, the movie won’t work for you.

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For many years, I was part of leadership for a yearly scout meeting for training new boy troop leaders. The agenda always included the yearly watching of Space Balls. After a few years of that, I, along with other leaders, figured out it was a good time for a walk. But I’ll certainly watch SB2.