Actor Josh Gad, who is co-writing a sequel to Mel Brooks' classic comedy Space Balls, recently shared details about pitching the idea to the 98-year-old director. Gad revealed that Brooks needed a comprehensive rundown of the current Star Wars landscape, including the eight new films released since the original Space Balls in 1987. Gad spent 40 minutes detailing the sequel's concept, referencing specific Star Wars moments to ensure Brooks understood the context.
Space Balls has long been one of Mel Brooks ’s most beloved, im large part because it lovingly parodies the Star Wars universe. In fact, that film has become so beloved in and of itself that a sequel is in the works from actor Josh Gad , who co-wrote the sequel script with Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit.
In a recent interview on Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa, Josh discussed development for the new film, and explained that he had to do a lot of explaining for the 98-year-old comic legend. When Space Balls was released in 1987, the original trilogy was just a few years old, and in the years since, there have been eight new Star Wars movies that Gad had to walk through.
Recommended Videos “Mel is incredibly involved. I’ll share a funny story that I haven’t yet shared,” Gad explained. “When we were pitching him the original conceit for what we wanted to do with the film, at the beginning he goes, ‘I’m just telling you now, I want you to really go into detail because I don’t know a lot about the new Star Wars films.’ And I said, ‘okay.'”
Please enable Javascript to view this content “So I pitch for 40 minutes. It’s literally like, I am a combat vet just going to war in front of one person,” the actor continued. “I’m sweating, I am getting into every line and every beat and every comedic set piece, every reveal. I’m painting all of it and I’m speaking to how this speaks to a certain Star Wars moment, etc. Then there’s silence and at the end of it, he goes, ‘wow.
Related Gad didn’t disclose any additional details about the movie, but it seems like Gad and his co-writers might have the sequel trilogy in their sights. “The process of working on this with and alongside Mel Brooks has been one of the highlights of my career,” Gad told Forbes.
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