The Schwartz is awakening.

Mel Brooks is formally returning as Yogurt, the gold-faced mystic Yoda-esque determine, within the forthcoming Spaceballs sequel, Amazon MGM Studios introduced Thursday. The legendary multihyphenate funnyman may even produce the movie alongside Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody, co-writer Josh Gad, and director Josh Greenbaum.

Brooks teased the sci-fi parody sequel — the official title of which has but to be introduced — in a video on social media.

"After 40 years, we requested, 'What do the followers need?'" the Blazing Saddles filmmaker says within the video. "However as an alternative, we're making this film. Might the Schwartz be with you!"

The previous part of the video spoofed Star Wars' iconic opening crawl (albeit in turquoise lettering as an alternative of the signature golden textual content from George Lucas' movies). The comically longwinded message contextualizes how a lot Hollywood has modified — and shifted towards franchise filmmaking — within the 38 years because the unique Spaceballs hit theaters in 1987.

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"Thirty-eight years in the past, there was just one Star Wars trilogy," the crawl begins. "However since then, there have been…"

The textual content then lists numerous Star Wars franchise extensions, together with "A prequel trilogy" (referring to Lucas' Phantom Menace/Attack of the Clones/Revenge of the Sith) and "A sequel trilogy (referring to Disney's Force Awakens/Last Jedi/Rise of Skywalker).

The video additionally mentions "A sequel to the prequel," and "A prequel to the sequel," each of which might theoretically be referencing both Rogue One or Solo relying in your perspective (although each initiatives can most precisely simply be described as easy prequels to 1977's unique Star Wars film).

The crawl additionally notes "numerous TV spinoffs," of which there have been over a dozen since 1987 together with The Clone Wars and Andor. Essentially the most sophisticated jab comes on the finish of the crawl's Star Wars franchise recap: "A film spinoff of the TV spinoff which is each a prequel and a sequel," almost certainly in reference to subsequent yr's The Mandalorian and Grogu, a theatrical movie follow-up to the TV sequence The Mandalorian, which itself is a sequel to the unique trilogy and a prequel to the sequel trilogy.

The video additionally pokes enjoyable at different sci-fi and fantasy franchises, together with the Marvel Cinematic Universe ("36 MCU motion pictures with two completely different Robert Downey Jr.s," in reference to the Iron Man actor returning as Physician Doom in Avengers: Doomsday), the DC universe ("DCU try Number one" and "DCU try Quantity 2," referring to the shared universes kickstarted by Zack Snyder and James Gunn, respectively), and Avatar ("2 Avatars plus 3 upcoming Avatars making 5 Avatars," mocking James Cameron's ever-expanding imaginative and prescient for the sequence).

The crawl concludes, "However in thirty-eight years there has solely ever been one… Spaceballs till now…"

The brand new Spaceballs shall be written by Benji Samit, Dan Hernandez, and Gad. The movie, which can launch in 2027, has been described as "A Non-Prequel Non-Reboot Sequel Half Two however with Reboot Parts Franchise Enlargement Movie."

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Brooks co-wrote and directed the unique Spaceballs, which lampooned the unique Star Wars trilogy 4 years after the sequence' unique conclusion, 1983's Return of the Jedi. He additionally appeared as each Yogurt and the villainous President Skroob (an anagram of the filmmaker's final identify) within the movie. Spaceballs additionally starred Invoice Pullman, Rick Moranis, John Sweet, Daphne Zuniga, and Joan Rivers.

Gad beforehand informed Kelly Ripa that Brooks is "extremely concerned" within the artistic course of for the sequel, and that the movie is "a love letter to not solely Spaceballs, however to all issues Mel Brooks."

The Frozen star additionally stated that Brooks hasn't actually stored up with the huge growth of the Star Wars universe. "After we had been pitching him the unique conceit for what we needed to do with the movie, at first he goes, 'I'm simply telling you now, I would like you to essentially go into element as a result of I don't know rather a lot concerning the new Star Wars movies,'" Gad recalled.

After pitching the script to Brooks for 40 minutes, Gad stated that the filmmaker received the gist.

"Then there's silence and on the finish of it, he goes, 'wow. Josh, it actually sounds such as you've received your finger on the heartbeat!'" he remembered. "'That’s the biggest praise I might have ever gotten, despite the fact that there's no context for it for Mel. He actually simply trusted all the pieces I needed to say."

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