Rick Moranis First Comic-Con Appearance with ‘Spaceballs The New One’
Laughs and an appreciation of Rick Moranis were plentiful as Amazon MGM’s Spaceballs: The New One, a sequel to the 1987 Mel Brooks Star Wars parody, flew into San Diego Comic-Con’s cavernous Hall H Friday afternoon. One of the panel’s biggest attractions was seeing Moranis, the comedian who appeared in seminal 1980s films such as Ghostbusters andHoney, I Shrunk the Kid, make his first ever appearance. The actor played villain Dark Helmet in the original 1987 movie but has been largely absent from movies and television for most of this century, so his return with the Spaceballs sequel is headline making. After a “comb the audience” joke, a callback to a line in the original movie that revealed the comedian to be in the audience wearing an oversized Darth Vader-style helmer, Moranis hopped up the stage to a standing ovation and chants of “Rick! Rick! Rick!” “You made our childhoods better,” said Kevin Smith, who ably moderated the panel. Moranis sat between Josh Gad, one of the creative forces behind the sequel, and Daphne Zuniga, …
