History of the World, Part 2: David Stassen & Alice Mathias on Mel Brooks
7If you’d said to any Mel Brooks fan even three years ago that we’d finally be getting a long-awaited sequel to History of the World, Part I, the epic parody film that took audiences through all of human history, they’d likely have called you crazy. But, in 2023, that vision is finally a reality, and the much anticipated History of the World, Part II, has finally arrived, shepherded in by writers, stars, and executive producers Wanda Sykes, Nick Kroll, and Ike Barinholtz.
The series continues the tradition begun by Brooks, framing each episode as a series of sketches covering the entire history of civilization — and then some. Among the many, many stories are tales of the Civil War, the Russian Revolution, and the Last Supper as a Beatles-esque recording session, all shepherded to creator by showrunner David Stassen and director Alice Mathias. Along with the team of Kroll, Sykes, and Barinholtz, they helped bring to life ideas like Harriet Tubman running a real underground railroad, Princess Anastasia as a 20th century influencer, and an Ancestry-style service that determines whether someone is related to the prolific Kublai Khan.
Collider was excited to sit down with Stassen and Mathias to talk about the show, and they got involved. During this interview, they discussed how the show came about, their first Mel Brooks films, and how the show’s zany structure was put together, both on set and in the editing room.
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