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.'"
goody (Score:3, Interesting)
Mel's great but he jumped the shark after Young Frankenstein, Blazing Sadles and the Producers.
Yay! (Score:5, Interesting)
Haha finally! (Score:5, Interesting)
Jon Candy is dead... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
-nB
The first one was the best experience I've had (Score:1, Interesting)
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 he's good it won't be the Search for More Money (Score:5, Interesting)
It'd be the perfect jab at Lucas's revisional approach to Star Wars...
Great Idea (Score:2, Interesting)
Maybe he's joking? (Score:3, Interesting)
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
Re:We knew this.. (Score:2, Interesting)
Is The Best Case Even POSSIBLE? (Score:3, Interesting)
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?
Revisionist Spaceballs I on TV (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Mega Maid (Score:2, Interesting)
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???
Good news... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Jon Candy is dead... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:Yay! (Score:5, Interesting)
Remember that a great deal of his directoral work is influenced heavily by 30s and 40s movie direction techniques, with long, drawn out pauses, long establishing shots, and great care to extract maximum emotional impact from the viewer. It relies more on in-jokes, subtle ethnic humor, and wild-takes.
Compare to today's comedies, which are influenced by the dramatically shorter attention span created by TV, Video games, and the intrnet. They rely more on extremely visual humor rather than situational humor and cut establishment to the bare minimum. Satires in particular rely on deadpan 'straight man' jokes, at a pace that seems rapid-fire in comparison to earlier works.
I'm not saying one format is better. They're just different formats. Don't group Brooks with the Farelli Brothers or Mike Meyers any more than you'd group Peter Jackson with Alfred Hitchcock.
I submit that 'Men in Tights' would have been an *incredible* film if only it had been edited differently.
MOD PARENT UP (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:goody (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Favorite part of first movie... (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Re:goody (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:How about History Of The World Part 2? (Score:4, Interesting)
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 needs Gene Wilder (Score:5, Interesting)
Mel Brooks without Gene Wilder is mediocre at best.
Another sequel from Brooks (Score:2, Interesting)
Real worst case scenario... (Score:3, Interesting)
Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2 (Score:2, Interesting)
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!
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:4, Interesting)
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?
Re:Mel Brooks needs Gene Wilder (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I disagree. (Score:3, Interesting)
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.)
(tig)
Hells Ya (Score:3, Interesting)
But who will play Barf now that Candy is dearly departed?
may the yogurt be with you
Classic Mel (Score:2, Interesting)
Young Frankenstein, although not with him in it, is is classic humour....
Remastered version? (Score:2, Interesting)
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!
Re:Obligatory (Score:2, Interesting)
(note: for a seriously 'damn...'-inducing monent, watch that scene on the dvd version. you really notice the quality between dvd and vhs.)
It probably won't be filmed in Toronto.... (Score:2, Interesting)
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