The master of comedic cinema Mel Brooks, 95, is participating in the writing of a second part of
Mad History of the World
, an eight-part series commissioned by the Hulu platform, she announced, 40 years after the release to the cinema of this burlesque comedy.
"
I can't wait to tell the truth once again about all the bogus stories that everyone thought they were history!"
", Said in a statement the filmmaker and actor, one of the few to have been honored in his career at the Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Oscars and Tony Awards, thus conferring him the title of
Egot
.
According to Hulu, Mel Brooks will be supported for production and writing by Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, Ike Barinholtz, David Stassen and Kevin Salter.
The writing of the series must begin "
this month
" and the shooting in the spring of 2022, specified the platform, whose majority shareholder is Disney.
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A worldwide success after its release in 1981, La
Folle histoire du monde
is a slapstick comedy that parodies history from the Stone Age to the French Revolution. Mel Brooks notably encamped there Moses, the character of Comicus during the Roman Empire, or Louis XVI. At the time, the film ended with the announcement of a sequel, with a fake Hitler in the middle of an ice skating performance,
Hitler on ice
.
Born June 26, 1926 to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, Mel Brooks always wanted to ridicule Hitler, as in one of his first musicals,
The Producers
, which became one of his greatest hits.
In the United States, the memoirs of the filmmaker, also known for
Frankenstein Junior
and
La Folle Histoire de l'Espace
, are expected in bookstores at the end of November.
