Spaceballs 2 is coming our way from director Josh Greenbaum and writers Mel Brooks, Josh Gad, Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez and MGM Studios, and discussing his four-part Dark Horse comic The Writer he touched upon the long-awaited sequel and how excited he is by the now completed draft and how people are going to be blown away by what’s been written.
“Without MGM taking me into their Culver prison cells, I can tell you that the draft is done,” he told me. “Everybody who’s read it has been blown away. The process of working on this with and alongside Mel Brooks has been one of the highlights of my career.
It was sort of a fever dream that this all happened. Mel has been so unbelievably supportive, involved, and electrified by this because it’s the one that surprisingly got away. It’s a dream to be able to finally make the reality prophesied by Yogurt in the first movie happen. I can’t say more than that. I can’t tell you anything beyond [the] process at this point, but I can tell you every hour of every day right now is spent making this project closer and closer to reality — and I think we’re nearing the end zone here.”
George Lucas famouslty asked Brooks not to release merchandise from the 1987 original, but with Lucasfilm no longer under his ownership maybe we’ll finally get our 3 3/4″ Pizza the Hutt and Yoghurt figures.
