Pizza The Hutt (Spaceballs) References In The Phantom Empire ('88)?

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Part 2 -1988 (filmed in '86) Fred Olen Ray sci-fi comedy The Phantom Empire may contain easter egg references to Return Of The Jedi ('83) (Star Wars) alien Jabba The Hutt & additionally Spaceballs ('87) villains Pizza The Hutt & Vinnie. - I observed similarly framed scenes between "Empire" & the intro of Episode VI.  - Actor Robert Quarry (Professor Strock) worked with Rudy De Luca on vampire film The Return Of Count Yorga ('73). De Luca was a frequent collaborator with Mel Brooks, co-writing the screenplay for Dracula: Dead And Loving It. He played Pizza The Hutt's footsoldier / thug Vinnie in Spaceballs. - De Luca is confirmed to be returning for the sequel Spaceballs 2 in 2027. - Russ Tamblyn (Bill) worked with Ghostbusters actors: He was Chocki The Shark Man in Chris Elliott comedy Cabin Boy which co-starred Brian Doyle-Murray.  - Rick Moranis played Lord Helmet (a spoof of Darth Vader) in Spaceballs & was Louis in Ghostbusters. - Jeffrey Combs (Andrew Paris) played a pizza shop worker in an episode of A Nightmare On Elm Street spinoff anthology TV series  Freddy's Nightmares ("Love Stinks" S.1, E.17).

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00:00recently taking a look at 1988 Fred Olin Ray sci-fi comedy The Phantom Empire and this starred

00:09Ross Hagen, Don Wildsmith, Jeffrey Combs, Robert Corey, Sybil Danning, and Russ Tamblyn. I did some

00:17other videos on this. A couple different associations I drew from both the visuals

00:24and by way of looking at some of the cast's future and past roles and unrelated works I picked up

00:32on

00:32references to Star Wars villain Jabba the Hutt introduced in episode 6 in 1983 and additionally

00:43Crime Lord Pizza the Hutt and Thug Vinny from Mel Brooks parody and comedy Spaceballs 1987. I'll tell

00:53you how you can see this in Phantom Empire. Actor and writer Rudy DeLuca worked with Robert Corey

01:00in Vampire Horror, filmed The Return of Count Yorga in 1973. He played a police lieutenant. He also

01:07frequently teamed with Mel Brooks on several projects including co-writing 1995's Dracula Dead and Loving

01:17starring Leslie Nielsen. In some other videos I mentioned the Nielsen connections in Phantom Empire.

01:25Now in Brooks sci-fi spoof Spaceballs in 1987 DeLuca played Vinny the gangster foot soldier of Pizza the

01:35Hutt. He's a silver guy with sunglasses and in case anybody was wondering Rudy DeLuca has been confirmed

01:43to be returning to be returning to the sequel Spaceballs 2 scheduled to be released on April 23rd,

01:512027. Russ Tamlin of the Phantom Empire had worked with Ghostbusters actors. Tamlin played Chalky the

02:00Shark Man in 1994 fantasy comedy Cabin Boy starring Chris Elliott. Brian Doyle Murray, a brother of Bill

02:10Ghostbusters Peter Venkman played Skunk in Cabin Boy. Rick Moranis plays Lord Helmut in Spaceballs.

02:18He was Lewis in Ghostbusters. And finally on the subject of pizza, Jeffrey Combs who played Andrew

02:26Paris in The Phantom Empire was in an episode of A Nightmare on Elm Street, a spinoff horror anthology

02:35TV series, Freddy's Nightmares, where he worked in a pizza restaurant. And this was season one,

02:43episode 17, entitled Love Stinks, broadcast in 89.

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