{ "title": "Rick Moranis makes low-key arrival in Sydney as he prepares to return to Spaceballs sequel", "subhead": "The 72-year-old star, largely retired from on‑camera work for decades, was spotted at the airport ahead of filming for the Mel Brooks sequel.", "body_markdown": "Rick Moranis, 72, arrived in Sydney on Thursday as he prepares to reprise his role as Dark Helmet in a sequel to Mel Brooks’s 1987 parody Spaceballs, appearing low-key and largely unrecognisable to some fans.\n\nThe actor was wearing a navy fleece over an off‑white collared shirt, khaki chinos, black sneakers and a light grey cap when he was photographed wheeling his own luggage and carrying a black backpack through the terminal, the Daily Mail reported. Moranis spoke with airport staff and stopped to pose for photos with several fans before getting into a waiting car.\n\n![Rick Moranis arriving in Sydney](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/09/11/07/102031707-0-image-m-76_1757571741483.jpg "Rick Moranis arriving in Sydney")\n\nMoranis, best known for films such as Ghostbusters (1984), Spaceballs (1987) and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), has largely stayed out of the public eye since the late 1990s. His last on‑camera role before a decades‑long hiatus was the 1997 straight‑to‑video sequel Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. He told USA Today in 2005 that he stepped away to raise his two children after the death of his wife, costume designer Ann Belsky, from breast cancer in February 1991.\n\n"As a single parent, I just found that it was too difficult to manage to raise my kids and to do the traveling involved in making movies," Moranis said then. "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