The search for more money is officially back on, and it’s moving at ludicrous speed! Nearly four decades after Mel Brooks first unleashed his beloved sci-fi parody upon the galaxy, Amazon MGM Studios has officially kicked the marketing campaign for the long-awaited sequel into hyperdrive. The studio has unveiled the first teaser poster and a highly satirical synopsis for Spaceballs: The New One, perfectly setting the stage for the film’s highly anticipated San Diego Comic-Con showcase.
The film’s debut teaser poster goes straight for the nostalgia bone, paying tribute to one of the most relentlessly quoted gags from the 1987 original. In a direct nod to the iconic scene where President Skroob commands his soldiers to literally “comb the desert” for Princess Vespa, the poster depicts two Spaceballs troopers dragging a massive, heavy-duty comb across the dunes.
By dragging the comb, the troopers have carved out a giant, sweeping numeral “2” in the sand, punctuated by the brilliant tagline, “Combing Soon”. It is exactly the kind of beautifully stupid, low-tech joke that defined the original movie’s legendary comedic texture.
Alongside the poster, Amazon MGM Studios released an official synopsis that proves the writers Josh Gad, Dan Hernandez, and Benji Samit are ready to tear modern Hollywood franchise culture to absolute shreds. Taking a massive swing at Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Disney+ streaming models, and the sequel landscape at large, the plot summary reads:
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.”
The plot follows Queen Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) on the throne and Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) in hiding while the “Schwartz is stretched thinner than a franchise releasing TV episodes theatrically”. The fate of the galaxy falls upon Vespa’s undisciplined son, Prince Starburst (played by Lewis Pullman), and a mysterious palace advisor named Destiny (Keke Palmer). Together, they must track down the legacy characters “before they discover the hard way that, while some threats you can fight, the reboot is not one of them”.
With Rick Moranis famously coming out of retirement to reprise his role as Dark Helmet and 100-year-old Mel Brooks back to produce and star, The New One is shaping up to be the ultimate meta-comedy event of 2027.
