{"id":2796,"date":"2016-02-04T19:04:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T03:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2016-02-04T19:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T03:04:16","slug":"the-schwartz-awakens-with-spaceballs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/the-schwartz-awakens-with-spaceballs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Schwartz Awakens with \u201cSpaceballs 2\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Ashton Newton\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t take much to notice that, right now, Star Wars is on fire. The franchise has had an extremely successful past six months and shows no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n<p>Right now is the perfect time for Mel Brook\u2019s \u201cSpaceballs\u201d sequel, \u201cSpaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sequel was first officially mentioned when the original film came out in 1987 as a joke, but Brooks has recently confirmed on \u201cThe Nerdist\u201d podcast; yes, it\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks wants to bring back as much of the original cast as possible. Unfortunately Joan Rivers, Dick Van Patten, and John Candy have all passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks said in a 2014 interview that he would never do a \u201cSpaceballs\u201d sequel without Rick Moranis. Moranis hasn\u2019t been active since 1997 and has yet to comment on the rumors. Moranis recently turned down a cameo in the \u201cGhostbusters\u201d reboot.<\/p>\n<p>The original \u201cSpaceballs\u201d was released in 1987, four years after \u201cStar Wars: Return of the Jedi\u201d and quickly became a beloved member of the parody family. IMDB has the movie ranked at the seventh best parody movie of all time, with the list topped by \u201cMonty Python and the Holy Grail\u201d and \u201cAirplane!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpaceballs\u201d received a reboot in 2005 when Brooks directed a 13 episode animated series following the release of the \u201cStar Wars\u201d prequels. The series saw the return of Daphne Zuniga and Joan Rivers, but no other original cast members.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the animated series on YouTube with all of its \u201cStar Wars\u201d parody fun. The first episode \u201cRevenge of the Sithee\u201d even features a character very similar to Darth Maul.<\/p>\n<p>Not much has been confirmed regarding \u201cSpaceballs 2,\u201d but Brooks told \u201cThe Nerdist\u201d that the film is in early stages of development and that he hopes to start shooting early this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t take much to notice that, right now, Star Wars is on fire. The franchise has had an extremely successful past six months and shows no signs of slowing down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}