In Mel Brooks' classic spoof Spaceballs, his character Yogurt jokes that hopefully all the characters will reunite again in Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money. It was a joke at the expense of the endless sequalizing of film that was already a thing in the late 1980s, and yet conversations around an actual sequel to Spaceballs were always there. And now, four decades later, whatever's happening now is happening now.
The reason we know for certain that Spaceballs 2 isn’t just some weird dream is that the principal photography on the film has officially wrapped. Josh Gad posted to Instagram with the news that filming is done. It feels like production had only just started, and Gad himself says that the entire experience has gone by faster than Ridiculous Speed. He said:
