{"id":1390,"date":"2026-04-05T05:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/the-spaceballs-sequel-will-be-released-in-april-next-year\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T05:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:35:43","slug":"the-spaceballs-sequel-will-be-released-in-april-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/the-spaceballs-sequel-will-be-released-in-april-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spaceballs sequel will be released in April next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s finally a release date for the <em>Spaceballs<\/em> sequel \u2014 but before you get too excited, it&#8217;s a whole year away. As first reported by <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/spaceballs-release-date-1236773242\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\"><em>Deadline<\/em><\/a>, Amazon MGM Studios announced on Friday night that the upcoming <em>Spaceballs<\/em> movie will hit theaters on April 23, 2027, right around the 40th anniversary of the first film. Several members of the original cast will be reprising their roles, according to <em>Deadline<\/em>, including Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, George Wynder and Daphne Zuniga.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spaceballs: The Release Date. April 23, 2027. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Xv0BKmf7C\">pic.twitter.com\/5Xv0BKmf7C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amazon MGM Studios (@AmazonMGMStudio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmazonMGMStudio\/status\/2040245224451285286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> Whispers of a potential <em>Spaceballs 2<\/em> go back a couple of years, but <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/officialmelbrooks.bsky.social\/post\/3lrgcy27tyk2e\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\">Brooks<\/a> officially confirmed in an extremely on-brand announcement video last summer that the movie is actually happening. Following <em>Deadline<\/em>&#8216;s latest report, Amazon MGM Studios posted a screenshot of the article on X, along with the words, &#8220;Spaceballs: The Release Date. April 23, 2027.&#8221; The movie is being directed by Josh Greenbaum and written by Josh Gad, Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, according to <em>Deadline<\/em>. Along with the returning cast members, it will star Gad, Keke Palmer (!!), Lewis Pullman and Anthony Carrigan.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/tv-movies\/the-spaceballs-sequel-will-be-released-in-april-next-year-213543871.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/the-spaceballs-sequel-will-be-released-in-april-next-year\/\">The Spaceballs sequel will be released in April next year<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s finally a release date for the Spaceballs sequel \u2014 but before you get too excited, it&#8217;s a whole year away. As first reported by Deadline, Amazon MGM Studios announced on Friday night that the upcoming Spaceballs movie will hit theaters on April 23, 2027, right around the 40th anniversary of the first film. Several members of the original cast will be reprising their roles, according to Deadline, including Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, George Wynder and Daphne Zuniga.\u00a0 Spaceballs: The Release Date. April 23, 2027. pic.twitter.com\/5Xv0BKmf7C \u2014 Amazon MGM Studios (@AmazonMGMStudio) April 4, 2026 Whispers of a potential Spaceballs 2 go back a couple of years, but Brooks officially confirmed in an extremely on-brand announcement video last summer that the movie is actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}