Having wrapped the long-awaited sequel to Spaceballs, star Lewis Pullman noted the experience was of cosmic proportions.
In a new interview with People, the Thunderbolts* star said, “It was a dream come true. We just wrapped, and … every day was such a trip. It … felt like a bizarre simulation. I just couldn’t believe my luck.”
The Lessons in Chemistry alum continued, “We’ve been wanting to do that [work together with father and original Spaceballs star Bill Pullman] forever and we never knew whether we could get the chance or not. And so doing it on a movie like Spaceballs 2 was just like, ‘What simulation … what world are we in right now?’”
Announced as early in development in Summer 2024, Amazon MGM Studios’ Spaceballs 2 will continue the tradition of the 1987 space epic satire, featuring Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman and Daphne Zuniga reprising their respective roles as Dark Helmet, Lone Star and Princess Vespa. Also returning is original steward Mel Brooks. New additions alongside Lewis Pullman include Keke Palmer, Anthony Carrigan and Josh Gad, who also co-wrote the script. Josh Greenbaum helmed the feature (also from scribes Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez), which commenced production in September.
The project was confirmed earlier this year, when Brooks posted a clip parodying Star Wars‘ iconic opening crawl, with text that ribbed Hollywood’s sequelmania, reading: “Thirty-eight years ago, there was only one Star Wars trilogy. But since then there have been … a prequel trilogy, a sequel trilogy, a sequel to the prequel, a prequel to the sequel, countless TV spinoffs, a movie spinoff of the TV spinoff, which is both a prequel and a sequel.”
It continued: “Not to mention … 2 Dunes, 7 Jurassic Parks, 2 Avatars plus 3 upcoming Avatars making 5 Avatars, 36 MCU movies with two different Robert Downey Jr.’s, DCU attempt Number 1, DCU attempt Number 2, an animated Lion King, a live action animated Lion King, a live action animated Lion King prequel, 8 Harry Potter movies, a TV series remaking the same 8 Harry Potter movies, a whole streaming service of Star Trek, 7 Alien movies (2 of which were also Predator movies, not to be mistaken for the 6 Predator movies that are not also Alien movies), 1 Prometheus (which is kind of an Alien movie), 4 Beatles movies? And … Oppenheimer. But in thirty-eight years there has only ever been one SPACEBALLS. Until now…”
A send-up of the sci-fi genre that serves as an amalgam pastiche of iconic films like Star Wars to 2001: A Space Odyssey, the pic grossed just over $38.1 million worldwide and has endured over the years as a cult classic.
Spaceballs 2 is slated for release in 2027.
