Rick Moranis is returning to acting after a 28-year hiatus.

Production is underway for the sequel “Spaceballs 2,” marking Moranis’ first live action film role since 1997. During a 2005 interview with USA Today, Moranis, 72, explained that he took a step back from the business to focus on parenting his two children, daughter Rachel and son Mitchell. He became a single dad after his wife Ann Belsky died in 1991.

“I pulled out of making movies in about ’96 or ’97. I’m a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies,” Moranis said at the time. “So, I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn’t miss it. In the last few years

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