Lord knows the Internet has never been wanting for Star Wars content. Even when the rest of the world‘s Star Wars resources were scarce, in those times before the Prequels or between various cartoons iterations, the Internet‘s stock of Star Wars-tangential material has always been abundant. It’s about a year before the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (or Episode VII if you’re into the whole brevity thing), and the world was just given the first peek of this new, Lucas-less entry. 88 seconds of footage was enough to support wild conjecturing about the plot, the characters, along with racist bemoaning on various social media sites. Within one day of its debut, there was the Lego shot-for-shot remake and a George Lucas “special edition” version of the trailer. And now someone has paired those scant few moments of the new Star Wars with footage from its most famous parody, Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs.
As created by YouTube user Film Geekery, the mock trailer uses the audio from the new film’s trailer and pairs it with images from Brooks’ sci-fi spoof (in some cases surprisingly perfectly, in other cases less so). It’s short and sweet enough, even if it seems to have been built mainly on the similarity in imagery of a black man in a stormtrooper outfit in the desert.
