“Spaceballs” icons Rick Moranis and Daphne Zuniga celebrated the film’s upcoming sequel at San Diego Comic Con Friday. Photo by Chris Frawley/Amazon MGM Studios
Rick Moranis made a rare public appearance to celebrate his second Star Wars parody, Spaceballs: The New One, at San Diego Comic Con Friday.
Moranis reunited with Daphne Zuniga, his co-star from the original 1987 film, as well as its sequel, for the event.
Also in attendance were New One cast members Keke Palmer and Lewis Pullman, and filmmakers Josh Gad and Josh Greenbaum.
Franchise creator Mel Brooks and original and returning star Bill Pullman both sent video messages that were shown to fans.
“Somehow, Dark Helmet has returned! Forty years after the events of the first Spaceballs, fifty 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, so completely lacking in any original ideas, that it has vowed to bring back the past… every last bit of it,” a synopsis for the film said.
“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,” the summary added. “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 sequel is set for theatrical release next April.
