Spaceballs: The Animated Series

In the grand tradition of Spaceballs: The Movie, Spaceballs: The Book, and Spaceballs: The Documentary; a new animated series has been greenlit for G4, set to debut in the fall of 2007. The series will include a one-hour pilot and 13 half-hour episodes, though oddly, the pilot is set to pretty much retell the story of the movie, with Lone Starr and Barf being hired to save Princess Vespa from Dark Helmet, complete with his scheme to steal the air from Drudia.

I suppose this is less of a surprise with the revelation that the fantastic Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan – two of the movie’s three writers – are writing the pilot. Meehan will also take a story editor role, wherein he will possibly write some individual episodes, but oversee the writing of them all. And to my pleasant surprise, the show even boasts Brooks doing the voices for Yogurt and President Skroob!

All in all, for once, I’m sad I don’t get G4.