Amazon MGM Studios has unveiled an official title for its anticipated Spaceballs sequel, releasing in theaters on April 23, 2027.
In a pre-taped video as part of Amazon MGM’s CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas on Wednesday, franchise architect Mel Brooks, who produced and returned to star in the new film, revealed that the title is the appropriately cheeky Spaceballs: The New One.
Brooks couldn’t make the presentation, he said, because he was “seeing Phish at the Sphere.”
He cut in on screen in the middle of remarks from Rick Moranis — an actor making a comeback after many years away from the screen, who audiences are eager to hear from. Knowing this, Amazon never let it happen, with the actor also being interrupted by Josh Gad and, via another pre-tape, Keke Palmer. Other cast members appearing on stage tonight, alongside director Josh Greenbaum, to tout the anticipated sequel, included Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Josh Gad, and Lewis Pullman.
L-R: Rick Moranis, Lewis Pullman, Josh Gad, Daphne Zuniga, Bill Pullman and Josh Greenbaum from ‘Spaceballs: The New One’ at CinemaCon
David Becker/Getty Images for CinemaCon
Greenbaum called it the “honor of a lifetime” to get to make a sequel to a “comedic masterpiece.”
When asked about working with a co-star he has a personal relationship with, Bill Pullman deadpanned that he was thrilled to collaborate with “someone I’ve seen blossom into a very special young man … Of course, I’m talking about Josh Gad.”
Lewis Pullman said, of his process in booking the sequel, “It was a pretty rigorous process, took years. First, I was born.”
Meanwhile, Zuniga said she was very happy to return — should Amazon provide a “giant trailer, massive per diem, personal driver, Michelin-star chef, walk-in closet for [her] luggage” and more.
Teeting up the presentation was Moranis’ Darth Vader-like character Dark Helmet, who in a pre-tape, said, he’s always dreamed of two things “to steal the air from Druidia and to open wide domestically on 4800 screens.”
RELATED: CinemaCon 2026 Photos: Ryan Gosling, Michael B. Jordan, Camila Mendes & Nicholas Galitzine
Plot details for Spaceballs: The New One remain under wraps. Previously, the film has been jokingly described as “A Non-Prequel Non-Reboot Sequel Part Two but with Reboot Elements Franchise Expansion Film.”
The narrator of footage previewed tonight teased, “Space: dark, cold, infinite. A universe filled with heroes and villains where the fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of the few, and blasters go pew-pew-pew.”
We see Brooks in Yoda makeup, as well as a Na’vi from the Avatar films standing alongside Moranis’ Dark Helmet at a urinal. We’re told the film came about because “fate intervened with Hollywood studios merging willy-nilly,” and are promised the film will one day “be used as a write-off.”
Gad co-wrote the script and stars alongside Palmer, Lewis Pullman and Anthony Carrigan, whose new characters are also being closely guarded. Returning cast includes Brooks as Yogurt, Moranis as Dark Helmet — returning to the screen for the first time in many years — Bill Pullman as Lone Starr, Zuniga as Princess Vespa and George Wyner as Colonel Sandurz.
Josh Greenbaum (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) directed from a script by Gad, Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez, based on characters created by Brooks, Thomas Meehan, and Ronny Graham. Producers include Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer and Jeb Brody, Brooksfilms Limited’s Brooks, Angry Child Productions’ Gad, and Greenbaum and Kevin Salter. Adam Merims, Samit and Hernandez executive produced.
Released by MGM in 1987, the original Spaceballs is an iconic send-up of the sci-fi genre, which took inspiration from the Star Wars franchise and other classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey. The plot revolves around the evil Dark Helmet (Moranis) and President Skroob (Brooks), who attempt to steal the atmosphere of the peaceful planet Druidia, only to be thwarted by the hero Lone Starr (Pullman), his sidekick Barf (John Candy), and the Druish princess Vespa (Zuniga). Others in the cast included Joan Rivers and Dick Van Patten. The film has endured over the years as a cult classic after grossing just over $38.1 worldwide.
