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He's mostly retired.

His wife died years ago, and he decided he'd rather be at home raising his kids than off constantly acting and either disrupting their lives or forcing them to be raised by a nanny or something. So he basically stopped acting.

Now that they're grown up adults he's done an occasional spot or two, but he's mentioned he doesn't feel overwhelming pressure to get back to acting because he's gotten so used to not acting and just kind of chilling.

That being said, I can't imagine a Spaceballs 2 being anything other than horrifically bad. Mainly because it feels like Mel Brooks has long since stopped giving a shit about anything and is just letting other people parasite his established work now (*cough*History of the World Part 2*cough*). If I believed in a god, I'd absolutely pray for that project to never get off the ground. Let it lie.

Hollywood needs to stop trying to repeatedly fuck the past in the ass.