Amazon is bringing back Rick Moranis for the Spaceballs sequel

Amazon MGM Studios is moving connected a Spaceballs sequel, and a caller formed photo confirms that Rick Moranis volition beryllium backmost aft a decades-long interruption from live-action films to reprise his relation arsenic Dark Helmet. Moranis’ past live-action movie was Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, released successful 1997, and portion Deadline reported earlier this twelvemonth that Moranis would beryllium returning for Spaceballs 2, present it’s official.

Mel Brooks, Daphne Zuniga, Bill Pullman, and George Wyner are besides coming backmost for Spaceballs 2, and they’ll beryllium joined by caller formed members Josh Gad, Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman, and Anthony Carrigan. Details astir the crippled are nether wraps, but “in emblematic Mel Brooks fashion, the movie has been described arsenic ‘A Non-Prequel Non-Reboot Sequel Part Two but with Reboot Elements Franchise Expansion Film,’” Amazon says.

Spaceballs 2 is scheduled to deed theaters successful 2027, 40 years aft the original’s debut. The movie was announced earlier this twelvemonth successful a video with a Star Wars-like rubric crawl parodying the monolithic fig of sequels and spinoffs crossed Star Wars and different large amusement franchises. (The black-and-white formed photograph released contiguous seems to beryllium a motion to Star Wars, too.)