Spaceballs
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About
Spaceballs[1] is a classic parody film of the original Star Wars trilogy directed, co-written, and starred by Mel Brooks and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in June 24th, 1987. Besides starring Mel Brooks, the movie starred Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, and the voice of Joan Rivers.
Reception
Spaceballs gained mixed reviews from critics while users are more positive with higher scores. IMDb[3] gave a rating of 7.1 / 10 from over 136,000 IMDb users. A 54% with a rotten mark of a average 6.2 / 10 was given from Rotten Tomatoes[4] while the users gave a audience score of 83% and average rating of 3.5 / 5 from over 434,000 users. Metacritic[5] critic gave it a 46 / 100 and the users with a user score of 8.6 / 10.
Spaceballs: The Animated Series
Spaceballs: The Animated Series[2] is a animated TV series directed, written, and voice acted by Mel Brooks that premiered in 2008 on G4TV and Canada's Super Channel. Originally Mel Brooks plans on getting the original cast to voice their roles, but Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis declined. Rino Romano and Dee Bradley Baker filled the roles for the characters, and Tino Insana voices Barf due to John Candy passed away in 1994. Surprisingly, Daphne Zuniga and Joan Rivers accepted to lend their voices as their roles from Spaceballs. The animated series aired a remake of the original Spaceballs movie and 13 episodes.
Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money Possibilities
On February 6th, 2015[7], Mel Brooks was on Adam Carolla’s Take A Knee[10] podcast[9] to confirm that Spaceballs is in the early phases of development and he's hoping to potentially start filming in early 2016, after the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December 2015. Mel Brooks also hopes to bring the original cast back, minus John Candy and Joan Rivers due to their deaths.
On February 26th, 2016[8], Twitter user @JediNewsUK[11] tweeted teaser posters for Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money that mysteriously appeared in a New York City subway station. Based on the comments on @JediNewsUK's tweet and no official updates from Mel Brooks, this is more likely a harmless prank to get the fans hyped up.
Search Interest
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Spaceballs
[2] Wikipedia – Spaceballs: The Animated Series
[3] IMDb – Spaceballs
[4] Rotten Tomatoes – Spaceballs
[5] Metacritic – Spaceballs
[6] Wookieepedia – Spaceballs
[7] Nerdist – A New Spaceballs Movie is in the Works, According to Mel Brooks
[8] Movies.com – The Schwartz Awakens? Mysterious 'Spaceballs 2' Posters Pop Up in New York City
[9] Blastr – Mel Brooks confirms development on Spaceballs sequel, hopefully with the original cast
[10] The Adam Carolla Show – Take a Knee 012: Mel Brooks
[11] Twitter – @JediNewsUK – Spaceballs 2
