With the massive amount of interest in Star Wars today, it should come as no surprise that there is also renewed interest in Spaceballs, the famous Star Wars spoof.
For those who may not remember, Spaceballs was the creation of Mel Brooks, a hillarious mocking of anything Jedi, Wookie and Yoda, that was released a solid decade after the original George Lucas film. It was announced in January that Brooks will be returning to the world of ‘The Schwartz’ with a Spaceballs cartoon series.
BFC Berliner Film Companie has partnered with Brooksfilms and MGM Domestic Television Distribution, a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (NYSE:MGM), to create the show.
According to Contact Music, Brooks told Maxim Magazine that he would love to come back and reprise the voices for the characters he played in the film.
“There’s an animated Spaceballs TV concept in the works. I told them I’ll be happy to look over the scripts and do some voices. I’d love to play President Skroob – he’s the perfect president – or Yogurt, the sweet little spiritual, magical man”, he says.
“I’m crazy. I’m liable to get into that make-up again when I record the voice – just to get back into the character. Okay, now that would be stupid.”
Under the agreement, BFC and MGM will produce an hour-long pilot and 13 half-hour episodes of the series.
Credit: Moviehole.net, Contactmusic.com
