Spaceballs' Dark Helmet Was Originally Even More Over The Top, According To Rick Moranis

Mel Brooks has a long and storied career of lambasting genre movies. From making a mockery of the Western in "Blazing Saddles" to laughing at Broadway shows with "The Producers," no piece of entertainment was ever safe from Brooks' sardonic wrath. This includes science fiction, which Brooks took on in 1987 with "Spaceballs." A parody of movies like "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Alien," and more, the film approached tales of spaceships and robots with the same goofy aggression that all of...