{"id":1283,"date":"2025-09-25T20:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/amazon-is-bringing-back-rick-moranis-for-the-spaceballs-sequel\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:05:25","slug":"amazon-is-bringing-back-rick-moranis-for-the-spaceballs-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/amazon-is-bringing-back-rick-moranis-for-the-spaceballs-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is bringing back Rick Moranis for the Spaceballs sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/spaceballs-2-table-read2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Amazon MGM Studios is working on a <em>Spaceballs<\/em> sequel, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/entertainment\/spaceballs-2-sequel-amazon-mgm-studios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new cast photo<\/a> confirms that Rick Moranis will be back after a decades-long break from live-action films to reprise his role as Dark Helmet. Moranis\u2019 last live-action movie was <em>Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves<\/em>, released in 1997, and while <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/spaceballs-2-casts-rick-moranis-bill-pullman-keke-palmer-1236431204\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Deadline<\/em> reported<\/a> earlier this year that Moranis would be returning for<em> Spaceballs 2<\/em>, now it\u2019s official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Mel Brooks, Daphne Zuniga, Bill Pullman, and George Wyner are also coming back for <em>Spaceballs 2<\/em>, and they\u2019ll be joined by new cast members Josh Gad, Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman, and Anthony Carrigan. Details about the plot are under wraps, but \u201cin typical Mel Brooks fashion, the film has been described as \u2018A Non-Prequel Non-Reboot Sequel Part Two but with Reboot Elements Franchise Expansion Film,\u2019\u201d Amazon says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Spaceballs 2<\/em> is scheduled to hit theaters in 2027, 40 years after the original\u2019s debut. The film was announced earlier this year in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WsK-KPi_w3w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a video<\/a> with a <em>Star Wars<\/em>-like title crawl parodying the massive number of sequels and spinoffs across <em>Star Wars<\/em> and other big entertainment franchises. (The black-and-white cast photo released today seems to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/features\/commentary\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-cast-photo-10-years-ago-1234978746\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a nod to <em>Star Wars<\/em>, too<\/a>.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon MGM Studios is working on a Spaceballs sequel, and a new cast photo confirms that Rick Moranis will be [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}