Spaceballs Animated Series in Production

Keith Russell writes "CNN is reporting that production has started on Spaceballs: The Animated Series, which will start a 13-episode run on G4 next year. Brooks himself will provide the voices of 'two characters', although they don't mention Yogurt or President Skroob by name." From the article: "Like the 1987 movie, which parodied well-known science-fiction movies, 'Spaceballs: The Animated Series' will spoof current blockbusters as well as every genre of entertainment from movies and reality TV to culture and politics. It is set to debut on cable network G4 in fall 2007. Production has already started on an initial batch of 13 episodes."

KEWL!

[$RANDOMLUSER (804576)]

Now maybe we'll finally get to see "Jews in Outer Space".

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[bwcarty (660606)]

That would be....a miracle!

Further detail.

[Rob T Firefly (844560)]

This version [comingsoon.net] does specify Yogurt and Skroob.

Yogurt?!?

[truthsearch (249536)]

Yogurt! I hate Yogurt! Even with strawberries.

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[User 956 (568564)]

'Spaceballs: The Animated Series' will spoof current blockbusters as well as every genre of entertainment from movies and reality TV to culture and politics.

But will it spoof the spoof genre? Or is that like crossing the streams?

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[da3dAlus (20553)]

Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

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[Mikya (901578)]

But will it spoof the spoof genre? Or is that like crossing the streams?

I would say it's more like jumping the shark.

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[mythosaz (572040)]

'Spaceballs: The Animated Series' will spoof current blockbusters as well as every genre of entertainment from movies and reality TV to culture and politics.

My fear is that it becomes something akin to the Scary Movie line, where they just spoof everything in the genre...badly.

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[Andrew Kismet (955764)]

Actually, Scary Movie 1 and 3 weren't so bad. the second and fourth were downright abysmal.

Finally a sequel...

[RiskyChris (999242)]

The search for more money?

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[Mr. Flibble (12943)]

Spaceballs III, the search for Spaceballs II.

Animated series....

[by Anonymous Coward]

That sucks... no wait, now it blows.

ObQuote

[Randolpho (628485)]

SPACEBALLS??!?

Oh, shit! There goes the planet.

only if his schwartz is as big a smine.

[Brigadier (12956)]

Thats a classic, figured it woudl ony be a matter a time given the star treck prequels. Think of all the bad acting that they can make fun of.

All I can say is...

[Billosaur (927319)]

All Hail President Skroob!

Hollywood needs to close for a few years

[hsmith (818216)]

Till they can come up with a new idea.

Or proudly command...

[ab0mb88 (541388)]

Keep firing, assholes!

That seems to be the plan currently.

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[gurps_npc (621217)]

Have you seen Little Miss Sunshine? Funny, innovative, not derivative, well worth it, if only for using the gay porn to distract someone from the fact that they have a dead heroin addict in the trunk of their vehicle.

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[lucabrasi999 (585141)]

Hollywood needs to close for a few years Till they can come up with a new idea.

You've got to remember that these are just simple actors, directors, producers and gaffers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

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[Myself (57572)]

The idiots who patronize Hollywood need to boycott them for a few years, until they come up with some new ideas, and a new profit model.

Take the amount of money you spent on Hollywood movies during the last year (tickets, DVDs, rentals, merchandise) and divide it by the amount of money you gave to EFF and ACLU in the last year. This is your Hypocrisy Quotient.

• If it's less than or equal to 1, thank you.
• If it's between 1 and 3, your heart's in the right place but your wallet is weak.
• If it's greater than 3

Merchandising!

[bricklayer (539164)]

Any news on Spaceballs: The Flamethrower?

Whatever happened to Spaceballs sequel?

[by Anonymous Coward]

What ever happened to the Spaceballs sequel [comingsoon.net] that was announced a couple years ago?

Mel Brooks Writing Spaceballs Sequel
Source: Ain't-It-Cool-News
September 28, 2004


In a Q&A with Playbill magazine, Mel Brooks says that he's currently working on a Spaceballs sequel. Here's the clip from the interview which starts off by talking about the big screen adaptation of The Producers.

Playbill: Will you have a role in it?

MB: It's doubtful, but I'm writing myself back into the Spaceballs sequel that I'm now writing, so you haven't seen the last of my face. Why another Spaceballs? It wouldn't feel right have anyone else play Yoghurt and the first one was the best experience I've had making a movie since Blazing Saddles.

Playbill: When can we expect that?

MB: Best case scenario: a week before the new Star Wars opens. Worst Case Scenario: a year after the new star wars opens.

Development

[Enderandrew (866215)]

Brooks has said for years he wanted to do a Spaceballs sequel, and incorporate the prequels. Studios have been pushing for a TV show so they could spoof other fandoms and pull in more people. Specifically they kept demanding a LotR spoof, which I'm not sure how well that fits in the Spaceballs universe. But LotR makes huge money, and Lords of the G-Strings is a very weak parody (and porn for that matter). So someone has to do it.

Given budget limitations and Brook's age, a cartoon seems like the best way to cut back on the costs of all the new locations, space sequences, etc.

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[StumpMan (176725)]

I remember hearing once that the movie's name was to be Spaceballs 3: The Search for Spaceballs 2. At the time the big movie in theaters was Kevin Costners "Prince of Theives". Brooks dropped the script and wrote "Men in Tights" instead.

Packaging for the DVDs

[SecretAsianMan (45389)]

This is wonderful news. I have long held that Spaceballs is one of mankind's greatest comedic achievements. Finally, there will be new material! This fanboy is excited.

...

And when they release the DVD box set, it better come in Spaceballs: The Lunchbox!

A quote from Spaceballs comes to mind.....

[8127972 (73495)]

.... As I read this:

Barf: I know we need the money, but...

Lone Starr: Listen! We're not just doing this for money... We're doing it for a SHIT LOAD of money!

Barf: Oh, you're right. And when you're right, you're right. And you - you're always right.

What's the matter, Colonel Sandurz?

[LochNess (239443)]

Chicken?

She's gone from suck to blow

[tokki (604363)]

Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!

Is the sequel dead?

[BobSutan (467781)]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/29/141723 1 [slashdot.org] I take it this is dead then?

Finally

[DarkHelmet (120004)]

For all this time, you slashdot users have mocked me.

But HA! Look! Now I have a legitimate use for my nickname on here!

And since I'm on Slashdot, let me reword one of my more famous quotes:

Windows will always win because Linux is dumb!

Had enough quotes yet?

[ArcherB (796902)]

Ludicrus speed!

When?
Now.
Now-Now?

Comb the desert...

It's gone from suck to blow...

Mog...Half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend.

Merchandising question

[cyberfunkr (591238)]

It's a little known bit of trivia, but when Mel Brooks went to George Lucas asking permission to make the parody (not required but all the cool guys [weirdal.com] do it) George said sure, on one condition: You can't make any Spaceballs merchandise. Why? Because as pointed out in the movie, "Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made." George didn't want to lose out on a Star Wars lightsaber sale for a Spaceballs-the lightsaber sale.

That's why it's so heavily referenced in the movie; Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the flame thrower, Spaceballs-the towel, Spaceballs-the etc. Because they can't (couldn't) actually make a single item.

So does that same limitation exist? Could "Spaceballs-the animated series" be considered merchandising? Or did they get a new deal for parodying "Star Wars, the animated series" without limitations?

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[geekoid (135745)]

Or maybe they told George to blow himself.

You go to someone out of Curtesy and they start putting limitations on you.

Screw 'em.

Re:Poor Mel Brooks

[Rob T Firefly (844560)]

Yeah, that whole multiple-award-winning, multi-bazillion-dollar-earning "The Producers" musical must have really ruined the guy. He must be crying himself to sleep in his money bin.

Re:Poor Mel Brooks The Producers LOST MONEY

[sinner6 (884407)]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=producers. htm [boxofficemojo.com] Made $38,054,424 Cost $45 million Net loss $7 Million I wish I had 7 million to lose. I assume the play is doing better, but how much of cut of that is he getting? I don't think playwrites get very much in the way of royalties.

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[Rob T Firefly (844560)]

I seem to remember Brooks saying that he made the movie version just to have a permanent record of the Broadway show. However much the show earns him, it's enough where he could afford to do that.

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[Monkelectric (546685)]

The problem with the producers movie: What works in theatre *DOES NOT* work on film. Repeat it with me, WHAT WORKS IN THEATRE DOES NOT WORK ON FILM!!!

The producers movie was a fairly accurate recreation of the producers brodway production. Matthew Broderick's sniveling character just did't work on film.

Re:Poor Mel Brooks The Producers LOST MONEY

[lucabrasi999 (585141)]

The problem with the producers movie: What works in theatre *DOES NOT* work on film. Repeat it with me, WHAT WORKS IN THEATRE DOES NOT WORK ON FILM!!! The producers movie was a fairly accurate recreation of the producers brodway production. Matthew Broderick's sniveling character just did't work on film.

You are forgetting that the Broadway Play was simply an accurate recreation of the 1968 ORIGINAL Movie (starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder). And, Gene Wilder's sniveling character did work on film.

For the record, I thought the 2005 version of the movie was pretty good. Mel had to update some of the jokes for 2005, (but he kept the 'blonde bombshell'). Very funny. He also wrote a couple of pretty good new songs.

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[Amazing Quantum Man (458715)]

Go rent the 1968 original version -- which was not an adaptation of a stage play, but was written specifically for the screen.

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[lucabrasi999 (585141)]

The main page you link to only lists "Box Office" receipts. If you click on the DVD Rental/Sales link [boxofficemojo.com], you'll see that they made $25 million in DVD sales. So, the movie made a nice buck. And the Broadway show opened on March 21, 2001 [broadway.com]. While it may not be selling out anymore, it is STILL running, over 5 years later. Trust me, Mel is raking in the cash.

Anything but G4! Please nooooooo....

[Jonah Hex (651948)]

Actually they are probably paying him to lend his name to the network. Why the hell this isn't considered for Adult Swim is beyond me.

Jonah HEX

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[Bryansix (761547)]

The Producers?

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[truthsearch (249536)]

He asks for a recent Mel Brooks movie and you name his first. Now that's funny.

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[Bryansix (761547)]

He wrote the music for and was an actor in the 2005 version. Blazing Sadles was his best only second to Spaceballs.

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[PerlDudeXL (456021)]

A highly successful Broadway production "The Producers" and a recent movie [imdb.com] based that musical.

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[gurps_npc (621217)]

Most people consider the broadway play The Producers to be a very succesfull play. While it is a re-work of a movie, they changed quite a bit of it and put in lots of new jokes.

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[patrixmyth (167599)]

I don't know about flamethrowers, but I feel fairly certain about Space Balls Dolls (err, Action Figures!)

Oh, and it should really be a prequel, or they are missing a whole lot of obvious jokes from the genre!

Step up

[nedwidek (98930)]

Actually compared to what is on G4, this may be a step up in quality.

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[generic-man (33649)]

"Use the fork(s)" is from the Simpsons episode where Mark Hamill guest starred. Spaceballs had "use the Schwartz."

You're obviously lost

[RLiegh (247921)]

The "googling for ATM passwords" article is further down the page [slashdot.org].