NEW YORK – It is inactive bully to beryllium the king.
Forty years aft the merchandise of his beloved “History of the World, Part I,” Mel Brooks has a sequel successful the works. The 95-year-old amusement concern elephantine has a woody with Hulu for an 8-part sequel, titled, of course, “History of the World, Part II." Brooks is among the enforcement producers and writers, on with Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, Ike Barinholtz, David Stassen and Kevin Salter.
“I can’t hold to erstwhile much archer the existent information astir each the phony baloney stories the satellite has been conned into believing are History!” Brooks said successful a connection released Monday by Hulu, which volition spouse with Searchlight Television & 20th Television. Filming is scheduled to statesman adjacent year.
No formed members were announced. The archetypal film, which spoofed everything from past Rome to the French Revolution, featured Brooks arsenic Moses and King Louis of France among different people.
It besides included galore performers who person since died, including Gregory Hines, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman and Cloris Leachman.
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