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.'"
We knew this.. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:We knew this.. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:We knew this.. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:We knew this.. (Score:3, Funny)
"Funny, she doesn't look Drewish."
Re:We knew this.. (Score:5, Funny)
"Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II"
Re:We knew this.. (Score:5, Funny)
Damn (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Damn (Score:3, Funny)
Oh shit, there goes the planet. *slowly shakes head*
May the schwartz be with you (Score:2)
sooo, ... (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
goody (Score:3, Interesting)
Mel's great but he jumped the shark after Young Frankenstein, Blazing Sadles and the Producers.
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:goody (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
Re:goody (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:goody (Score:3, Funny)
Glad we got that squared away.
Re:goody (Score:5, Insightful)
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...
Re:goody (Score:5, Funny)
In the future you may want to slide the words "the movie" in there somewhere.
Re:goody (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe THAT's the reason he's going back and F*&#ing up Star Wars. He doesn't want his current movies to be compared to such a high standard, so he's lowering the standard. It has a twisted genius about it.
Re:Mel Brooks, like George Lucas, is vastly overra (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
How about History Of The World Part 2? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:How about History Of The World Part 2? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How about History Of The World Part 2? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How about History Of The World Part 2? (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:How about History Of The World Part 2? (Score:4, Insightful)
Ah-ha, caught you! You can't be a one-trick pony "sometimes," you either are or you aren't.
To only be a one-trick pony sometimes implies the existance of more than one trick, existing outside the time period refered to. Thus, the question is moved to, how are you defining the one-trick period?
Anyway, seriously, it's not an uncommon tune structure, and Brooks has written enough other songs that I think he can be forgiven for repeating a melody once in a while. After all, he gave us Springtime for Hitler....
My god, I just realized what that sounds like to the uninitiated. Um, er... I'm not a Nazi!!
Yay! (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Krusty retires (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Haha finally! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Haha finally! (Score:5, Funny)
THe current one will be renamed "spaceballs it was always episode 4"
Re: (Score:3)
Re:Haha finally! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
May the schwartz be with you! (Score:5, Funny)
Could be the Greatest Movie Ever!
Re:May the schwartz be with you! (Score:5, Funny)
/.'ing Those News Sites (Score:5, Funny)
Re:/.'ing Those News Sites (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Good is dumb (Score:5, Funny)
Jon Candy is dead... (Score:5, Interesting)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Jon Candy is dead... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Jon Candy is dead... (Score:5, Funny)
They'll get Chris Farley. Ah, damn. Not again...
Maybe that guy from Mad TV?
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.
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.
Re:Jon Candy is dead... (Score:3, Insightful)
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
History of the World Part 2 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:History of the World Part 2 (Score:5, Funny)
"You mean Mel Brooks is Jewish??!"
Re:History of the World Part 2 (Score:4, Funny)
What would be hilarious... (Score:5, Funny)
Comb the desert, do you hear me... (Score:2)
With the release of the SE and the three new prequels, movies like Battlefield Earth, it won't be hard to find GREAT material for this movie.
Re:Comb the desert, do you hear me... (Score:4, Funny)
How about a prequel? (Score:5, Funny)
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)
Re:Great Idea (Score:3, Funny)
No no no no no no. It should be his father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.
Shit... (Score:3, Funny)
Ill-conceived sequels... (Score:2)
Oh well. The nice thing about Mel Brooks is that even if it turns out to be a good movie I won't miss mu
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
Wondering... (Score:2)
Princess Vespa
Lone Starr
Barf
A sequel? (Score:2)
Bring Closure (Score:3, Insightful)
Story Ideas (Score:2)
Dark Helmet getting his ass kicked on the Planet Of The Apes?
President Scroob gets thrown out of office and replaced by a big headed guy from Massachusetts?
SPACE BALLS I REMASTERED DVD! (Score:5, Funny)
"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.
ah, I know the answer (Score:2)
in other words, 'as soon as we can get the big star [imdb.com] to sign the contract'
Talk about mixed feelings (Score:2)
However...
A big chunk of the problem was that Spaceballs came out nearly a decade after the (good) flick it was lampooning. But this one'll follow three big, sucking, black holes of craptacular filmmaking - and at worst, be only
And reprising role as the 'bitchy' robot (Score:3, Funny)
CGI Madness (Score:5, Funny)
by showing a scene from the first Spaceballs with
tons of excessive CGI characters inserted...
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.
Good news... (Score:3, Interesting)
What would be really funny... (Score:4, Funny)
Not a sequel. (Score:3, Funny)
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.
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.
Spaceballs: Episode -1 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Spaceballs: Episode -1 (Score:3, Informative)
Mel Brooks needs Gene Wilder (Score:5, Interesting)
Mel Brooks without Gene Wilder is mediocre at best.
Real worst case scenario... (Score:3, Interesting)
As long as I can get Spaceballs II the T-shirt... (Score:3, Funny)
Hells Ya (Score:3, Interesting)
But who will play Barf now that Candy is dearly departed?
may the yogurt be with you
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?
I disagree. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I disagree. (Score:5, Insightful)
Doesn't Lucas realize that Empire Strikes Back, with screenwriters Who Aren't Named Lucas and a director Who Isn't Named Lucas, was the best of the Star Wars movies? The awful acting out of Mannequin Skywalker and Amidala good have been hammered out with somebody capable of writing good dialog and a director capable of recognizing stale delivery.
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)
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:2)
Well, we don't know that yet, do we? Expect the worst, but hope for the best...
Another classic down the blackhole...Al Gore. (Score:3, Funny)
The motto for the upcoming November elections.
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
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:3, Insightful)
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, we
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:5, Funny)
Must be that instant cassette feature.
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:5, Funny)
Gotta love it
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: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?
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: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.
Re:Another classic down the blackhole... (Score:3, Insightful)
"Spaceballs the Flamethrower!
Re:Well we all know the title (Score:5, Funny)
That was just kidding.
This will be "Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2"