Everyone Loves ‘Spaceballs 2’ Script, Says Guy Writing ‘Spaceballs 2’
Great news, Mel Brooks fans! There’s a Spaceballs sequel coming down the pike, and the script is supposed to be amazing!
How do we know? Screenwriter and potential star Josh Gad tells us so. He just finished his first draft, and “everybody who’s read it has been blown away,” says the guy who just finished the first draft. “The process of working on this with and alongside Mel Brooks has been one of the highlights of my career.”
Don't Miss
Gad then proceeded to tell Forbes everything about the new script without actually saying anything at all. “It was sort of a fever dream that this all happened,” he explained. “Mel has been so unbelievably supportive, involved and electrified by this because it’s the one that surprisingly got away. It’s a dream to be able to finally make the reality prophesied by Yogurt in the first movie happen. I can’t say more than that. I can’t tell you anything beyond (the) process at this point, but I can tell you every hour of every day right now is spent making this project closer and closer to reality — and I think we’re nearing the end zone here.”
What do we actually know? Gad has a deal with Amazon MGM Studios to make a sequel to Mel Brooks’ eighth-best comedy (according to Rotten Tomatoes), although no cast or potential release date has been announced. But unfortunately for Gad, the comments section over at Deadline seems to be populated by people who haven’t read his remarkable first draft. Here’s a sample of the mean-spirited reaction to the “blown away” news:
- “Mel, cash the check quickly.”
- “Josh Gad is only funny to Josh Gad.”
- “A remake of a decades old parody based on a thoroughly bastardized movie that is also decades old. Just what the world needs.”
- “Leave it alone already and just create something new. A sequel to this will only shit on the original.”
- “Screw a sequel. I’m going to go watch the original now.”
- “Did we just hit the bottom of the barrel?”
- “Josh Gad is truly the absolute worst.”
Yikes.
The irony is, we could have had a Spaceballs sequel years ago, made by someone to whom fans and even Deadline readers would have given the benefit of the doubt. Rick Moranis definitely had a funny title in mind when he pitched his concept to Brooks: Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II.
Unfortunately, “I was unable to make a deal with Mel. I couldn’t make a deal,” he told Heeb in 2013. “It would have been something I would have wanted to do. But that ship has sailed.”
