First Plot Details for Spaceballs 2 Revealed

Amazon MGM Studios has unveiled the first official plot description for Spaceballs: The New One, the long-awaited sequel to Spaceballs.

Set 40 years after the original film and 50 years after Star Wars: A New Hope, the movie also humorously notes that it takes place one year after The Devil Wears Prada 2. Like the first film, it will parody Star Wars along with other popular movies and franchises.

Amazon MGM is holding a Hall H panel for the film at San Diego Comic-Con next weekend. Here are the plot details for Spaceballs: The New One:

“Somehow, Dark Helmet has returned! Forty years after the events of the first Spaceballs, 50 years after the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, and one year after the events of The Devil Wears Prada 2, the galaxy is once again under threat.

A threat so evil, so unstoppable, and so completely lacking in any original ideas that it has vowed to bring back the past… every last bit of it.

With Lone Starr in hiding, Queen Vespa on the throne, and the Schwartz stretched thinner than a franchise releasing TV episodes theatrically, the only hope for the galaxy is Vespa’s undisciplined son, Prince Starburst, and a mysterious palace advisor named Destiny.

Together, they must find Lone Starr, Yogurt, and any other iconic legacy characters fans are demanding before they discover the hard way that, while some threats you can fight, the reboot is not one of them.”

The opening line of Spaceballs: The New One directly parodies Disney’s Star Wars era with the joke, “Somehow, Dark Helmet has returned,” references The Rise of Skywalker while teasing a film packed with jokes about modern Hollywood franchises.

The cast of Spaceballs: The New One includes Mel Brooks as Yogurt and President Skroob, Bill Pullman as Lone Starr, Rick Moranis as Lord Dark Helmet, Lewis Pullman as Prince Starburst, the son of Lone Starr and Queen Vespa, Keke Palmer as Destiny, a mysterious palace advisor, Daphne Zuniga as Queen Vespa, and George Wyner as Colonel Sandurz. Josh Gad, Anthony Carrigan, and Rowan Witt have also been cast in undisclosed roles.

Josh Greenbaum (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) will direct from a screenplay by Josh Gad, Dan Hernandez, and Benji Samit.

Spaceballs: The New One will hit theaters in the United States on April 23, 2027, from Amazon MGM Studios.