10 things we can (probably) expect from ‘Spaceballs 2’
The sequel to Mel Brooks’ ‘Star Wars’ spoof will look like this
What will Spaceballs 2 bring? Hear’s a guess. Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images
By PJ Grisar June 12, 2025
In what’s being sold as a fully transparent cash grab, Mel Brooks announced today the coming of Spaceballs II, a sequel to his 1987 Star Wars spoof that he only made because his kid liked George Lucas’ space operas.
Brooks broke the news, true to Spaceballs: The T-Shirt, Spaceballs: The Cereal, Spaceballs: The Flamethrower-fashion, with a lengthy crawl listing the proliferation of over-franchised intellectual properties, as if to say “Why not make another thing no one needs or asked for?”
But unlike Spaceballs: The First Movie, and more like Young Frankenstein, this film does appear to be a labor of love rooted in nostalgia and spearheaded by actor Josh Gad, who said, in an Instagram post, he saw Brooks’ riff on the galaxy far away before he saw the original films.
“It is therefore the greatest gift of my life to now help take the reins and work alongside Mel and this incredible group to do a sequel to the movie that first inspired George Lucas,” posted Gad, set to star in and co-write the film, set for a 2027 release.
Brooks, Gad said, hadn’t kept up with Star Wars lore, and so needed things explained to him. I have — sadly at times — followed the expansion of the universe through the prequels on through Disney. Here’s what I think will make its way to the final cut.
1. Pizza the Hut goes on Ozempic
The bubbling mass of dairy has, like so much of Hollywood, embraced GLP-1 agonists, and now appears to be composed of cashew-based cheese and a cauliflower crust.
2. The Mr. Coffee from the original will now be a Keurig
Times change.
3. Meet your new corporate overlords
Rick Moranis is reported to be coming out of a decades-long retirement from acting to reprise his role as Dark Helmet. But I’m not sure he’ll be the main bad guy this time. In his place I expect a figure who, alluding to the Disney acquisition, sorta looks like Mickey Mouse and tortures our protagonists with a litany of sequel ideas, spin-off shows and a painful transition to subscription-streaming. He’ll be named Boba Igarr or maybe it’ll be a lady named Catspleen Threnody.
4. The bris of Baby Yogurt
Lone Starr, Barf (Gad?), Dot Matrix and Princess Vespa join in the simcha of this new character, whose lips are touched ceremonially with blue milk.
5. Someone will crack wise about a character’s head spikes/tentacles
Acknowledging the prequel trilogy’s introduction of more alien races with identifying appendages, I suspect our protagonists will encounter a Darth Maul-looking fellow or lady with lekku head tentacles whom they may refer to as “pincushion/head/spikey/Big Jack Horner” in the case of the former or “slugarinna/My Octopus Teacher/Lady Windsock” in the case of the latter. That or they’ll just say “you got some schmutz.”
6. A droid will be named Alexa
That’s it. The modern world, am I right?
7. Pod racism?
In a nod to the — shall we say controversial — reputation of Jar Jar Binks, Watto and the Neimoidians and other alien species that bear an unfortunate resemblance to ethnic stereotypes, Keke Palmer’s character (some kind of Imperial official who turns good?) will at one point be seen interviewing a person with a racially insensitive presentation for a job or maybe to pass a security checkpoint. She will stamp their file with a big red “cancelled.”
8. Don’t mention the prequels
Characters will occasionally reference trade wars, embargoes (and yeah, maybe tariffs) or bloodborne Schwartz receptors that recall the more boring parts of Lucas’ films from 1999-2005. When they’re invoked, someone will say “up-up-up we don’t need to get into all that.”
9. A Kardashian cameo
Will it be Kylie, Kim, Rob or Kris? The universe must wait to see, but I already sense a disturbance in the Schwartz, as if millions of dollars suddenly cried out in appeal, and were suddenly deposited.
10. A trenchant satire of Bush-era global intervention continuing on to a contemporary global rise of authoritarianism, censorship, assaults on civil liberties and the enforcement of rightthink.
Nah, just kidding.
