Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money: The Collaborative TL!

January 1995: Pope John Paul II is assassinated in the Phillipines on January 15th. One week later, 4000 are murdered via simultaneous terrorist bombings of flights over the Pacific ocean. The same group, Al-Qaeda takes responsibility for both attacks. Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II is delayed indefinitely, as a large part of the plot involves a coordinated bombing of numerous spaceships.
 
January 1995: Pope John Paul II is assassinated in the Phillipines on January 15th. One week later, 4000 are murdered via simultaneous terrorist bombings of flights over the Pacific ocean. The same group, Al-Qaeda takes responsibility for both attacks. Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II is delayed indefinitely, as a large part of the plot involves a coordinated bombing of numerous spaceships.
Did Al-Qaeda actually have the capacity to pull this off in 1995?

Maybe a more plausible reason for the rewrite is that there is a terrorist bombing of one plane, targeted at the Pope?
 
April 1995: Mel Brooks fires Allen Johnson after key cast members of Spaceballs III said that after hearing reports from the actors of Solarbabies on how they were treated by Johnson that they didn't think Johnson was a "good fit" for the movie and Brooks a long time veteran of showbusiness knew that it was an unspoken threat by the cast members that they were going to back out of the movie if Johnson wasn't replaced.
Brooks still didn't want to direct as he wanted a fresh pair of eyes on the movie, Johnson was selected in the first place because he was Brooks' longtime choreographer and he staged the elaborate musical number in the second film was a critical and audience favorite.

May 1995: After the big box office hit of Dumb and Dumber Peter and Bobby Farrelly were hired for the film both as writers and directors and were more than willing to use Brook's original writing team and Brooks was always welcomed in the writing room to give and take suggestions.
 
July 1995: Cast relations between the Farrelly Brothers and the main cast are great, but not as great as Brooks.

"The Farrellys bring forward this type of comedy that goes one joke after another, and I really love these sorts of things, because the laughter... never stops."
- John Candy, during production of Spaceballs III, 1995.
 

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Although it was frequently denied later George Lucas was reported to have abandoned plans for a prequel trilogy in favour of filming episode VII primarily because some elements of his initial ideas were a little too close to Spaceballs III. Claims that the first such prequel was to have been called 'The Phantom Menace' have been derided by Star Wars fans as actually being the title of an unproduced Spaceballs script.
 
February 1996: Spaceballs lll is released. It receives praise for the writing and for the performances. The movie grosses over
$165 million dollars at the box office. Though Rick Moranis and John Candy both express an interest in doing a fourth movie, they both say that if Mel Brooks does not want to do a 4th movie, then they will respect that.
 
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