Mel Brooks, Spaceballs and Sequel
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Mel Brooks' 'Spaceballs' put a comedic dent in the sci-fi genre when it crashed onto the space-opera scene in 1987. Now, prequels and sequels later, it's back.
This time he’ll just be acting, though, with Josh Greenbaum ( Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar) directing from a script by Benji Samit, Dan Hernandez, and Josh Gad. Gad is also expected to star, but that has yet to be officially confirmed.
The Hollywood icon Mel Brooks' best films tended to parody entire genres of movies — Westerns with Blazing Saddles, for example, or classic horror with Young Frankenstein. Naturally, then, in the 1980s,