Beloved actor Rick Moranis is making his big-screen return in the forthcoming Spaceballs sequel, marking his first movie role in nearly 30 years, according to Deadline.

Moranis, 72, will reprise his role as Dark Helmet in the upcoming new movie, acting alongside original director Mel Brooks, who is also set to reprise his role as Yogurt from the original 1987 film.

The outlet also reports that original star Bill Pullman will return in his role of Lone Starr, and that Keke Palmer will be part of the new cast. Josh Gad will also be producing the sequel, which will be directed by Josh Greenbaum and co-written by Gad.

Brooks, 98, officially announced the film on X Thursday, June 12, alongside a Star Wars-type opening crawl screen and a caption that read, "I told you we'd be back."

"After 40 years, we asked, 'What do the fans want?' But instead, we're making this movie," Brooks joked in the video, before the footage cut to key art depicting Dark Helmet with an "only in theaters" release date of 2027. "May the Schwartz be with you!" the filmmaker concluded, quoting a famous line in the original Spaceballs.

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Moranis notably stepped away from show business after his wife, costume designer Ann Belsky, died of breast cancer in 1991, to raise their two children, daughter Rachel and son Mitchell. His last live-action role was in 1997's "Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves."

And though the actor slowly left public life to focus on being a single father, he never officially retired from the business, he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015.

In February 2020, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Moranis was returning to film for a reboot of 1989's "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," titled "Shrunk." He was slated to play his former character, inventor Wayne Szalinski, with Gad as his now-grown son. Original director Joe Johnston was also returning.

In 2023, Gad shared an update about Shrunk, writing on X that COVID, scheduling problems and budgetary issues had possibly derailed the project. "If you want it, let your local @disney know," he added at the time.

Spaceballs 2 will serve as "a Non-Prequel Non-Reboot Sequel Part Two but with Reboot Elements Franchise Expansion Film," it hilariously describes.

Sharing Brooks' video, Gad wrote on Instagram, "I was that child who saw 'Spaceballs' before I ever saw 'Star Wars' and then wondered why anyone would do a dramatic remake of the Mel Brooks classic. It is therefore the greatest gift of my life to now help take the reins and work alongside Mel and this incredible group to do a sequel to the movie that first inspired George Lucas."

The film is slated for a theatrical release in 2027.

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