Mel Brooks on the only condition George Lucas imposed on Brooks before allowing him to make the satire on "Star Wars" (1977): "Spaceballs" (1987):
"The same way I called Alfred Hitchcock to get his blessings on 'High Anxiety' (1977), I sent the 'Spaceballs' script to 'Star Wars' (1977) creator George Lucas. If not to get his blessing, then certainly to give him a heads-up on what I was doing vis-à-vis Star Wars. He was kind enough to read it and respond.
He said he had seen 'Blazing Saddles' (1974) and 'Young Frankenstein' (1974) and was a big fan. He enjoyed the script, and only had one real caveat for me: no action figures. He explained that if I made toys of my Spaceballs characters they would look a lot like Star Wars action figures. And that would be a no-no for his lawyers and his studio’s business affairs department. So he gave his blessing to make my funny satiric takeoff of Star Wars as long as I promised that we would not sell any action figures.
I said, “You’re absolutely right.” And that was one of the rules we didn’t break.
So even though in the movie itself we have Dark Helmet playing with action figures… we never sold any.
The exchange with George Lucas also triggered a beloved comedy scene in which a character that I played, Yogurt, a takeoff on Yoda, responds to Lone Starr’s question of “What is this place? What is it that you do here?” with a whole exposé of the movie business.
So even though we didn’t actually do any commercial merchandising, we still had a lot of fun with the scene. And over the years Spaceballs movie fans have sent me more than one mockup of “Spaceballs: The Breakfast Cereal.”"
("Mel Brooks on the Making of Spaceballs", Mel Brooks, Literary Hub, 2021)
“PLEASE OBI-WAN I’LL DO ANYTHING!! I’LL FUCKING SUCK YOUR DICK! YOU WANT ME TO EAT YOUR SHIT??? I’LL EAT YOUR FUCKING SHIT IN THE HIGH COUNCIL CHAMBER!!”
You might have heard the rumours, it's time to reveal what we are working on.
🗺️ An open world Middle-earth RPG.
⚔️ A new Kingdom Come adventure.
We’re excited to tell you more when the time is right.
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Mell Brooks says our whole society has become "stupidly politically correct" and that's why we don't have good comedy now:
"We have become stupidly politically correct, which is the death of comedy. It's not good for comedy. Comedy has to walk a thin line, take risks. Comedy is the lecherous little elf whispering in the king's ear, always telling the truth about human behavior."
Do you agree with Mel Brooks that political correctness is bad for comedy?
Novo poster de O Mandaloriano e Grogu feito por Hajime Isayama, o criador do mangá Attack on Titan!
— Não é a primeira vez que um mangaká renomado desenha um pôster de Star Wars, já havia acontecido antes com Anakin e Padmé, sendo desenhados por Takeshi Obata, o criador de Death Note.
Eric Kripke on whether ‘The Boys’ ending will satisfy fans after divisive finales like ‘Game of Thrones’
"I approached it with absolute terror ... I was not confident ... because people do a weird thing where they retroactively judge a show based on the finale"
"'Game of Thrones' [is] technically and creatively a groundbreaking, monumental achievement, which stumbled a little bit on three episodes ... those happened to be its last three, and now everyone is like ''Game of Thrones'... mid' I'm like really?.. that show changed the world"
"So I'm terrified of that response ... and I think it ended up being helpful because I was so careful [going] through everything. I think we pulled it off ... but who the hell knows? ... my butt is clenched waiting to see how people react"
(via @the_river_jp)