US EditionLook: 'Spaceballs 2' production begins; table read photo released
Rick Moranis returns to live-action after nearly 30 years to reprise his role as Dark Helmet in Spaceballs 2, with production underway and a 2027 release planned, studio confirmed.
- On Thursday, Amazon MGM Studios announced Rick Moranis ends his decades-long live-action hiatus to star in Spaceballs 2, confirming production is underway with a full cast and table-read photo.
- After his wife's death and a long hiatus, Rick Moranis stepped away to raise their children, and his 2020 planned return was delayed by the COVID pandemic, leaving 1997's Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves as his last live-action role.
- The cast list shows original actors Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, and George Wyner reprising roles, with Josh Gad, Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman, and Anthony Carrigan joining as new cast members.
- The return is being billed as a major cultural event because Rick Moranis's historic comeback reunites the original 1987 Spaceballs cast, while Mel Brooks's involvement links the sequel to the original's legacy and promises franchise satire and fourth-wall humor.
- Brooks teased the project saying, `After 40 years we asked, 'What do the fans want?' But, instead, we're making this movie` while Greenbaum directs from a script by Gad, Samit, and Hernandez, with producers Grazer and Howard involved.
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'Spaceballs 2' officially in production as Rick Moranis returns to acting
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Spaceballs 2 Announces Start of Production With a Star Wars: The Force Awakens Parody Photo
Amazon MGM Studios announced Thursday that Spaceballs 2, the long-awaited sequel to the 1987 sci-fi comedy and Star Wars parody, is now in production. The studio also released a behind-the-scenes photo of the cast doing a table read of the screenplay (seen below), which is a send-up of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens cast table read photo from 2014. You can see the two photos below.The studio also confirmed that Rick Moranis has officially retu…
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