May the Schwartz be with you! Spaceballs sequel set for 2027 — with Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis

Nick Logan · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 13, 2025 12:46 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

This is not a drill, movie fans! A Spaceballs sequel is successful the works and acceptable for merchandise successful 2027 — with three of its archetypal stars reprising their roles successful the cult classical 40 years aft the archetypal release. 

Actor Mel Brooks amazed fans connected Friday with a video announcing the instrumentality of the 1987 parody of Star Wars and different abstraction flicks, that featured Bill Pullman, Canadian drama legends John Candy and Rick Moranis, Joan Rivers and Brooks. 

"I told you we'd beryllium back," Brooks wrote successful a station connected on the societal media platforms BlueSky and X connected Thursday, accompanied by a video teasing the forthcoming film, acceptable to beryllium released by Amazon MGM.

The video, styled aft the opening series of the Star Wars films, mocked the fig of sequels, prequels and franchise universes that person deed the screens since the past Spaceballs movie.

WATCH | Teaser for caller Spaceballs movie:

"After 40 years, we asked what bash the fans want. But instead, we're making this movie," said Brooks successful the video, wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with "Spaceballs the Sweatshirt."

The teaser video ends with the tag line: "The Schwartz awakens successful 2027." (In Star Wars you request "the force;" successful Spaceballs you get "the Schwartz.")

Moranis returning play Dark Helmet, a nonstop up of Star Wars' Darth Vader, is simply a large woody for fans. 

The 72-year-old, Toronto-born actor, besides known for the Ghostbusters and Honey I Shrunk the Kids franchises, has made less appearances connected surface successful caller years, having mostly stepped distant from Hollywood to absorption connected raising his children pursuing the decease of his wife, Ann Belsky, successful 1991. 

Pullman, the present 71-year-old prima of films similar 1996's Independence Day and its 2016 sequel Independence Day: Rersurgence, will measurement backmost into his Spaceballs starring relation arsenic the Han Solo-esque character Lone Starr.

And Brooks, who turns 99 years aged aboriginal this month, volition erstwhile again play Yogurt — like Yoda successful Star Wars, but sparkly golden and with a emotion of merchandising. He besides played the quality of President Skroob successful the archetypal film.

But the sequel will have two precise large comedic voids to fill. 

Toronto-born Candy, who played 1 of his astir memorable roles successful the original film arsenic the loveable sidekick Barf, died of a bosom onslaught successful 1994 at the property of 43.

Rivers, the revered stand-up comic and TV host, died from complications aft going into cardiac apprehension during a regular aesculapian process successful 2014. She was 81.  

Rivers lent her dependable and signature sass to the quality of Dot Matrix, an android modelled aft Star Wars' C-3PO.

It besides doesn't appear, astatine this point, that erstwhile Melrose Place histrion Daphne Zuniga is coming backmost to play her Princess Leia-like character, Princess Vespa.

WATCH | The trailer for the 1987 Mel Brooks cult classical Spaceballs:

According to Deadline, Nope and One of Them Days prima Keke Palmer is joining the case, on with Lewis Pullman, who acted successful Top Gun: Maverick and is the adjacent look-alike son of Bill Pullman, are besides expected to articulation the cast.  

Brooks volition beryllium a shaper connected the film, but helium won't beryllium penning oregon directing this clip around.

Josh Greenbaum, who helmed the Kristen Wiig drama Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar and the Netflix documentary Will & Harper, is slated to direct. 

Josh Gad, a 2011 Tony-nominee for Broadway's The Book of Mormon and the dependable of Olaf successful the Frozen films, is co-writing the script. 

"I was that kid who saw Spaceballs before I ever saw Star Wars and past wondered wherefore anyone would bash a melodramatic remake of the Mel Brooks classic," Gad wrote successful a station connected X. "It is truthful the top acquisition of my beingness to present assistance instrumentality the reins and enactment alongside Mel and this unthinkable radical to bash a sequel to the movie that archetypal inspired George Lucas."