Amazon MGM Studios announced on Friday that the follow-up to Mel Brooks' 1987 space parody will be released in cinemas on April 23, 2027.
Spaceballs 2 will see Brooks, Rick Moranis (in his first live-action movie role for 30 years), Daphne Zuniga, Bill Pullman and George Wyner reprising their roles from the original film, with newcomers Josh Gad, Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman and Anthony Carrigan all joining the cast.
Josh Greenbaum is directing the comedy sequel from a scripted penned by Gad - although plot details and a title for the Star Wars spoof are yet to be revealed.
Spaceballs 2 will see Moranis return to the limelight in the role of Dark Helmet and Brooks revealed how he used the sequel to lure the star back into acting after he stepped away in the 1990s to look after his children following the death of his wife Ann Belsky from breast cancer in 1991.
The 99-year-old comedy legend told The Hollywood Reporter: "I said, 'Look, do you want to go to your grave without ever coming back to show business again in any way?'
"Then I said, 'This is the way. This is the only way. Spaceballs, Dark Helmet — that's your re-entrance.' I got him to do it."
Brooks added Moranis in his Dark Helmet is "even better" in Spaceballs 2 than in the original movie.
The Producers filmmaker continued: "He's never been better. He's even better than in the first edition. He's so good. He's a strange, wonderful, lovely guy and a very talented comic."
While plot details about Spaceballs 2 are being kept under wraps, it has been described as "a non-prequel, non-reboot sequel part two, but with reboot elements, franchise expansion film".
Lewis Pullman previously teased Spaceballs 2 has "so much of Mel's DNA in it".
The actor told Collider: "When I read the script, it's just wildly well-designed. It's just some brilliant writing that went into it. It has so much of Mel's DNA in it, and then Josh Greenbaum is the dream director.
"He has such a close relationship with Mel, and he has such a good sense for that kind of humour. It was a really incredibly great experience.
"It was so fun to be able to just do full-blown comedy in that way, and remember that full-blown comedy — it only works if there's full conviction. It only sells itself if you fully, truly believe it in the moment."
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