Seltzer & Friedberg to Make Star Wars Spoof.
Alright, so I try my best to write objectively for this site and give every Star Wars-related idea the benefit of the doubt, but even I have my limits. And those limits have just been tested, because it turns out that the guys behind the comedic kidney stones like Meet The Spartans and Disaster Movie are making a Star Wars spoof. Buckle yourselves in, because you guys are in for a ride…
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the duo known for the parody films including the Scary Movie franchise, Epic Movie and Vampires Suck, will next take on the iconic Star Wars franchise with their latest film, Star Worlds Episode XXXIVE=MC²: The Force Awakens the Last Jedi Who Went Rogue. Friedberg and Seltzer will write and direct the Star Wars spoof, which is eyeing a Fall 2017 shoot.
This.
Sounds.
Horrible.
Every part of this is so painfully ill-conceived. The concept of a feature-length “spoof” movie in this day and age is unlikely to be good in this day and age, and without any of the drive that made flicks like Airplane! great in the first place, you’re setting yourself up for a disappointment. The creative team behind the film, whose experience in the genre is to watch trailers and phone in attempts at comedy by making fun of scenes shown in the most shallow way possible. The unwieldy title that screams that they’re trying too hard while also promising that they put more thought into it than anything else in their script. It stinks – all of it. The movies these two hacks came up with were some of the worst things to come out of cinema at the turn of the millennium, and most sane people would like to forget they ever happened.
Above all else, though, the reason that this movie is a terrible investment is that these two hacks haven’t had a hit since 2009’s Vampires Suck, which mostly rode off of the Twilight hype that was happening at the time before everyone realized that the series was painfully shallow Mary Sue fanfiction conceived by a writer plagiarizing Anne Rice and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. (Said series would go on to inspire actual fanfiction that would be retooled into another painfully shallow book series that’s getting a new movie this weekend, and it will joyously lose business to The LEGO Batman Movie and John Wick: Chapter 2.) Some of you have probably heard of dreck like Date Movie or Epic Movie, but how many of you know about The Starving Games or Superfast (& Superfurious)!? …I rest my case, and both of those examples managed to lose millions of dollars in spite of their extremely low budgets.
And the absolute worst part is that someone out there is willing to fund this. Not a comedy with actual effort – or something resembling effort – put into it. Not a picture by an aspiring director hoping to make his way into the business with good ideas and a low budget. This. A “comedy” by a pair of directors who by all means should be nowhere near any position of creative authority in Hollywood that’s devoid of anything interesting to say, and is almost certain to lose the production company money. Ugh. The only upsides that I can see to this is that two parodies that they were working on – one of James Cameron’s Avatar (which would have been in 3-D) and one of Taken – never got off the ground. Hopefully that will be the case with this flick as well, but if not, then The Star Wars Holiday Special is going to have a run for its money as the title of worst Star Wars movie ever.
Alright, so I think that I’ve sufficiently vented. What do you guys think of this? Is this really going to get made, and (God forbid) would you actually consider watching it? Let us know in the comments below.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
Eh..if it’s anything like spaceballs I’d be down..but the movies these guys have made are pretty terrible.
See, I actually was going to say that after the much (inexplicably) beloved Spaceballs, which feels like it was made by someone only peripherally aware of Star Wars’ pop-culture trappings, but who had never actually seen any of the films, and which CLEARLY marks the beginning of Brooks’ slide into goddawful, dumpster-fire level film making, how much worse could this upcoming piece of crap be?
Spaceballs is amazing. If you don’t like it, you’re dead inside.
If you love it, you have no taste, or at least your taste runs to “THAT GUY POOPED ON THAT GIRL! THEN THEY SAID THE ‘F’ WORD!! IS FUNNY!!!!!”. Saw it in theaters, excited for the genius of Mel Brooks to take the GFFA down a peg. It was a pile of mostly unfunny, and was the first movie that made me think Brooks might not be the genius I had always thought he was. Men in Tights solidified that opinion, and he’s done zip since to change my mind.
Yeah, dead inside.
I’ll be honest, I couldn’t finish Spaceballs. I got half way through and didn’t even giggle ONCE. I guess the second half must be a lot funnier. The movie wasn’t painful or bad or anything, it just didn’t make me laugh. It’s just Episode IV but a bit weirder and more crude.
You did well to make it that far.
I find Spaceballs excruciatingly bad. Never make it past the first 15 minutes. It just doesn’t work for me. But Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part 2, or Young Frankenstein, now they are all watchable.
It won’t be. At all. These guys make HORRIBLE movies. Pure and utter dumpster fires.
This will bomb as big as Movie 42, guaranteed.
Its actually Movie 43, but I think you’ve proven your point. That trash was very forgettable.
Here’s the thing – Movie 43 actually passed its budget at the box office, so it technically didn’t lose money unless their ad budget was disproportionately huge. This movie most likely won’t even get that far.
– Pomojema
The fact this is being made at all is just depressing. A: Spaceballs did it first and was funny. B: Surely Star Trek is a better fit for a spoof.
The only SW spoofs I have any interest in would be done by Mel Brooks. Other than that, these guys can go get bent. I won’t watch it.
Nah, I’d rather he spend his efforts in making such gems as “Dracula Dead and Loving it 2”, a soft reboot of Life Stinks, or a shared universe based on Men in Tights. The world demands it!
I want it all! And… if he manages to drag Moranis out of retirement, Brooks will be a god, imho.
You’d take that bullet for the rest of us, would you? Brave man – the world owes you a debt we can never repay.
Completely agree with you. Spoof movies turn everything that was once authentic into a cliché. I won’t be going to see it because I don’t want my Star Wars memories exploited.
You might want to relax a bit. Have you seen Spaceballs? The movie is a masterpiece. That doesn’t mean this one will be any good, but the idea that Star Wars is some sacred cow that should not be parodied is rather silly.
Not really.
Mel Brooks could do it, Seth Green could do it, these guys – not so much.
LEGO Batman is a spoof that shows that those who spoof property need to understand it and love it first. The title of this garbage shows that these guys have no idea what they are doing and no real sense of humor.
Usually, I’d say “maybe they will prove me wrong”, but I don’t think so.
Have you seen Lego Star Wars? That stuff is hilarious! Done with love, wit and talent! They are great. Seth Green’s work on Robot Chicken is great, too! And, of course, Spaceballs is a classic!
Re: “LEGO Batman is a spoof ”
Realize you’re talking about Batman…but as for LEGO movies –
We do have LEGO movie talent (directing) returning for Han Solo movie.
I’d like to think that Millennium Falcon scene in The LEGO Movie was their audition. 😀
Now that I think about it, I would LOVE a LEGO Star Wars movie once this trilogy is all over.
Cheap movies made with no-name talent that get enough dumb teenagers to see it to turn a profit, much like cheap horror movies. That’s all it is.
I have to wonder though if the formula might fall flat this time though. Stupid teens go opening weekend to shitty horror movies and shitty gross-out comedies. I don’t know that they’d flock to a Star Wars parody – does the franchise have that much meaning to that demographic?
They will probably load it up with a lot of other lame pop cultural references besides just parodying Star Wars.
It has enough meaning for teens to watch the real thing. A cheap parody? Nope.
Not all teens are idiots 😉
It’s going to be cheap. It’s going to be dumb. It probably won’t be that funny. I’ll probably see it.
Someone’s looking for a tax write-off.
I think there’s enough Star Wars love out there to inspire a commercially viable amount of Star Wars hate. This film, disgustingly, could gain traction, regardless of the lack of quality. All the GFS and bfs that got roped into watching R1 and TFA multiple time without wanting to be there… That’s the audience.
I get it. Star Wars is so big it’s viable for parasites like this to piggyback. We got Fanboys. But these douchebags are not the right people to make any movie. Period.
You don’t see movies like this b/c you hate what it is spoofing.
Perhaps hate is the wrong word. What I’m driving at is more nuanced. Its the disdain and nonchalance that some people get after a pop cultural phenomenon has reached a certain point of critical mass/over-exposure.
Perhaps, but you know who the audience was for Scary Movie? People who like scary movies. You love something enough you being to enjoy seeing it mocked.
I’m going to have to agree to disagree on that point. The audience for Scary Movie in my experience was teenagers and young adults who wanted a laugh. The word spread and it became pretty much everyone (that I knew of 17 years ago anyway).
Some people that love things enough to enjoy seeing them satirized – well. Others can be quite touchy. There’s no rule.
I’m going to agree to agree to disagree with you.
The audience for Scary Movie was the people who liked Scream and all those other horror movies. Sure, some crossed over, but you need that core fanbase to come in order to succeed.
The title alone shows that they don’t know what they are doing and its not going to be fun.
I have never watched one of these guys’ movies because they all look so dreadfully awful! I’m not against a spoof of SW done by someone talented, but I’m pretty sure these aren’t the guys.
Robot Chicken: Star Wars – feature?
Whilst there’s no way I’d watch a movie by these people.
I’d seriously consider going to see a full-length SW spoof by the <i<Robot Chicken crew.
Heck, I spend nearly that long watching playlists on youtube of the shows.
Meet the Spartans is easily in the top 10 movies of all time so I have no problem with this……HAHAHAAH
Memo to me: Never take Villain’s movie recommendations.
Mike Myers’ The Love Guru has to take the cake though right?
depends on where you are taking said cake.
I gonna assume you’ve only SEEN 10 movies in your entire life then
What a sad waste of money that could be used to help animals or homeless people. Hollywood is pathetic greedy scum
Right. Hollywood should stop making $200 million dollar films because children are starving in Japan. Apropos of nothing, how about that Star Wars franchise, huh?
Star Wars is actually money well spent because it’s a fucking masterpiece. Not some piece of shit parody. Anything that doesn’t deserve to be made shouldn’t be wasting the money on it.
I don’t know why you’re hating on it before you even know it! But it probably won’t be as good as Spaceballs
While I agree on your statement the track record of these directors is incredibly weak, the multiple spoof movies they made were all terrible and cheap unfunny comedy. I dont think people are opposed to star wars being spoofed again just these 2 at the helm 🙂
Every spoof they have made has sucked balls. I doubt they suddenly become great comedic minds now.
https://youtu.be/u7Ty3fggeBA
Watch them reference all of those Mary Sue complaints from Rey on this “spoof.”
It’ll still be better than the ones from ’99, ’02, and ’05.
I agrees on a dailys bruh
I see what you did there.
Don’t exaggerate.
I don’t have a problem with a SW spoof, in fact I’d watch it. However, I don’t want to see bad movies and these two have mainly made poor films. I wish better filmmakers would be involved
I agree. I’m up to watch space Balls any time, but I could pass on “Space Nuts: We’re Trying Too Hard”.
You can bet someone is going to get hit on the head repeatedly.
KILL IT BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS.
hell yeah! Scary movie was funny as hell. Not to mention scary movie 2! honestly can’t wait. Hopefully its got some raunchy humor.
Neither of which these two directed. And only the first of which they were actually involved with, albeit with their work drowned out by the Wayans Brothers and two other writers.
– Pomojema
That’s alright, I’m still gonna have hope.
Worse than The Holocaust!
edgy
Mel Blanc isn’t coming to save us is he?
No thanks. I’ll just keep watching Spaceballs.
Who cares? Just don’t watch it if you’re not into the idea.
Gah-lee this author sounds heated. Honestly, it’s not a huge deal. If the spoof sucks, it sucks. Who cares. No one will ever talk about it. Why is it such a problem? Because it’ll “taint the name of star wars”? Because it’ll poke fun? Are we star wars fans really that shallow? Like I said, who cares?
and i wouldnt have known it existed if you hadmt told me . never heard of most of the other films you mentioned either. youve just guaranteed them an audience
Does Disney have a say in this? if so they should stop it !!
More proof that Disney should have never been given the brand. Lucas was a fool to sell it.
Share your feelings with the group…let the hate flowwwww.. It’s to bad Mel Brooks can’t talk Rick Moranis into coming back to act one last time to play Dark Helmet…That would have been something special.. but yeah..this is going to suck. Every movie these guys make are trash. I never noticed before how Episode 7 and 8 titles blend together like that though. The force awakens the last Jedi. That would be pretty wild if Episode 9 completes the sentence.