Amazon declined to comment.

Details as to the plot are under wraps.

Kevin Salter will serve as executive producer on the project.

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Directed by Brooks, the originalSpaceballswas a send-up of the sci-fi genre released by MGM in 1987.

Most recently, he directed the Will Ferrell docWill & Harper, which Netflix acquired out of Sundance.

The InSneiders Jeff Sneider was first to the news of the sequel.

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