Overview
- Daphne Zuniga said at a Melrose Place panel at 90s Con in Hartford on Sunday that Brooks requested his parts be shot first because he is 100 and has already finished filming them.
- Brooks worked directly with the movie’s writers and is described by cast as a major creative influence on Spaceballs: The New One.
- The production reunites original leads — Brooks, Daphne Zuniga and Bill Pullman — and brings Rick Moranis back as Dark Helmet in a rare live-action return.
- Josh Gad co-wrote the screenplay, appears in the film, and Josh Greenbaum directs while new cast members include Lewis Pullman, Keke Palmer and Anthony Carrigan.
- The sequel traces its roots to Brooks’s 1987 joke about a follow-up and is now scheduled to open in U.S. theaters on April 23, 2027, a timeline that critics and fans will watch as the completed Brooks scenes allow production to proceed.