Mel Brooks Says 'Spaceballs' Sequel In The Works 427
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.'"
Re:goody (Score:2, Informative)
imdb doesn't show the upcoming Spaceballs II in Mr. Brooks' production bio, [imdb.com] but it does show an announcement that "The Producers (2005)" is currently in production, and he's bringing in the cast from the Broadway production to do it. That was by far the funniest play I have ever seen in my life -- I hope he can pull it off again.
Re:How about History Of The World Part 2? (Score:5, Informative)
That guy from MadTV (Score:5, Informative)
He was a brilliant retard in "Drop Dead Gorgeous" and I think he'd make a wonderful Barfolomew Jr.
Re:goody (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Comb the desert, do you hear me... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:4, Informative)
"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 [starwarz.com]
"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 [starshipbuilder.com]
"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 [hollywoodnorthreport.com]
"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 [osu.edu]
-- Some
That's just a few picks from the first page of Google results, too.
Also, more info in case anyone was interested. (Score:4, Informative)
LIGHTING V'GER - a site about the original Star Trek: The Motion Picture [barbeefilm.com]
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 [hollywoodnorthreport.com]
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 [osu.edu]
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?
Re:Haha finally! (Score:4, Informative)
That thing you read was one of those no-story headline-and-a-picture things on The Onion. The headline was something like "Jonathan Lipnicki confirmed to play Dark Helment in Spaceballs Prequel" and it was accompanied by a headshot of the kid. It stuck in my head because I thought it was hilarious.
(That's the same kid from Jerry Maguire, you might remember.)
But yeah, The Onion, so no ground in fact.
Re:/.'ing Those News Sites (Score:4, Informative)
The deal, here in the US at least, is that for all the different sci-fi movies that have been released, they all treat faster than light travel with these insanely bright textures that twist and turn. Plus, the faster the speed, the more colorful and chaotic the pattern. Any movie that has a ship go that fast will have that feature. So, Mel Brooks was lampooning this with the fact that they were going so fast, their pattern turned to plaid. It still makes me laugh out loud.
No, he plays Barfolomew... (Score:3, Informative)
"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.
Mel Brooks movies I've seen, and reactions (Score:3, Informative)
- 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?
Re:Spaceballs: Episode -1 (Score:3, Informative)