Mel Brooks is not normally a man who makes sequels. But, speaking to host Adam Carolla on a recent edition of the Take A Knee podcast, h_e expressed a vague desire to revisit the characters of his 1987 Star Wars spoof **Spaceballs_, if only because, as he jokingly admits, he can see the financial potential.
Asked what he might think about making next, he brought up the outer space caper. “I was thinking about Spaceballs the other day. In Spaceballs, in the movie, Bill Pullman says to me, Yogurt, just plain Yogurt, he says ‘Do you think we'll ever meet again?’ and I say ‘Well, I don't know... maybe in Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money,” he says. “And I'm thinking now, if I did a movie that came out right after Star Wars comes out – maybe a couple of months later – I'd have a big weekend, you know? No matter what, even if it fell on its ass and didn't get its money back… but that first weekend, the anticipation of seeing Spaceballs 2, would… I still have Daphne Zuniga and I still have Rick Moranis if he'd do it, and I've still got me.”
All of this, of course, is merely rumination on Brooks’ part. Moranis has been largely in retirement for years and he’d need to recruit a few new faces to replace performers – Joan Rivers and John Candy amongst them – who have died in the intervening years. And if we’re honest, we’d much rather he turn his eye to some other subject if he’s going to keep on working and not just enjoy popping up in cameos for other peoples’ films. On that topic, he has a role as Dracula’s dad Vlad in Hotel Transylvania 2, which swoops in on October 9.