Spaceballs: The New One Gets Update

The archetypal authoritative trailer for Spaceballs: The New One debuted astatine CinemaCon connected April 15, and it’s got the franchise's archetypal writer-director Mel Brooks each implicit it. In the sneak peek, fans get a glimpse of parodies of fashionable sci-fi and phantasy properties similar Star Wars and Harry Potter. There’s adjacent a infinitesimal wherever Na’vi from Avatar is astatine a urinal adjacent to the quintessential Spaceballs main enforcer Lord Dark Helmet. Other franchises that are expected to beryllium parodied this clip astir see Star Trek and Alien.

Brooks, who is an unthinkable 99-years-old astatine this point, besides sent a video to the normal successful his absence, wherever helium announced that the sequel’s authoritative rubric volition beryllium Spaceballs: The New One.

As acold arsenic crippled details, it appears the specifics are being kept nether wraps astatine the moment, but determination are surely capable comic touchstone moments successful the trailer to chew on. One happening we bash cognize is immoderate of the movie’s slayer archetypal formed volition return, including Rick Moranis, George Wyner, Daphne Zuniga, Bill Pullman, and Brooks himself. There will, of course, beryllium caller folks joining the fray too, including Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman, Anthony Carrigan, and 1 of the film’s writers, Josh Gad.

You mightiness retrieve Brooks teased the task successful June 2025 with 1 of the classical Star Wars-style substance crawls. “Thirty-eight years ago, determination was lone 1 Star Wars trilogy,” it read. “But since past determination person been… a prequel trilogy, a sequel trilogy, a sequel to the prequel, a prequel to the sequel, countless TV spinoffs, a movie spinoff of the TV spinoff, which is some a prequel and a sequel […] But successful 38 years, determination has lone ever been 1 Spaceballs. Until now…”

The New One is directed by Josh Greenbaum and written by Gad, Dan Hernandez, and Benji Samit. Brooks besides revealed the movie’s theatrical merchandise day successful the video: April 23, 2027.

The task volition beryllium released by Amazon MGM Studios, who besides debuted footage from Masters of the Universe, Highlander with Henry Cavill, the Thomas Crown Affair starring Michael B. Jordan, Beekeeper 2 with Jason Statham, and How to Rob a Bank with Nicholas Hoult astatine CinemaCon. The workplace besides made a nationalist committedness to enactment 15 movies successful theaters per year, which they assertion they are connected way to deed successful 2026.

Image credit: Greg Doherty/Getty Images for Amazon MGM Studios.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.