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Jan 8, 2018 · Spaceballs celebrated its 30-year anniversary in 2017, solidifying its role as a cult-classic parody for the ages. It’s not by chance that this Mel Brooks comedy spoof of a movie was a blockbuster hit, as he took the production seriously due to his love for the Star Wars original trilogy.
- IT WASN'T THE FIRST STAR WARS PARODY FILM. YouTube. Amateur filmmaker Ernie Fosselius was so enamored with Star Wars in 1977 that he cobbled together a 12-minute short, Hardware Wars, which he shot for just $8000 in an abandoned laundromat.
- MEL BROOKS WANTED TO CALL IT PLANET MORON. In the commissary at the 20 Century Fox lot in 1984, Brooks was sitting down to eat when a studio executive abruptly asked what his next project was going to be.
- GEORGE LUCAS GAVE HIS (CONDITIONAL) BLESSING. Satire is generally exempt from litigation, but Brooks was an admirer of Lucas’s work and wanted to get his permission before starting on the movie.
- IT WAS SHOT OVER A GIANT SWIMMING POOL. Michael Winslow, best known as the “sound effects guy” from the Police Academy series, said in 2012 that Spaceballs was shot on the MGM lot in Culver City, California.
Dec 5, 2020 · Here's The Only Reason George Lucas Allowed Spaceballs To Spoof Star Wars. When it comes to the art of the parody, there isn't a single soul in Hollywood that can match up to the legendary Mel...
Feb 14, 2024 · Spaceballs could have been a ruthless go-for-the-jugular roast of George Lucas’s bloated space opera franchise, but is, instead, just a hammy sci-fi spoof. By respecting the rules of its genre from the inside out, Spaceballs is, inadvertently, the best Star Wars movie.
Jun 27, 2017 · Though Spaceballs was primarily a spoof of Star Wars (there are also elements of Star Trek and Planet of the Apes ), McLean says he never made it all the way through George Lucas's original film....
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Aug 24, 2012 · Spaceballs, as you most likely know by now, is a spoof of sci-fi movies—particularly Star Wars, but also, among other targets, Alien and Planet of the Apes.
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Jul 3, 2024 · One scene saw Jacob -- the long-teased Protector of the Island -- learning exactly why the Island needed protecting. The unhinged character known only as Mother -- who had adopted Jacob and his brother after murdering their birth mother -- explained that the Island housed a special light.
