Galaxy Quest To Become A Series
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The cult classic Galaxy Quest, which parodied Star Trek, will be coming to the small screen.
The series, based on the 1999 movie, will come courtesy of Paramount Television.
Galaxy Quest featured the cast of a “long-cancelled space show, who became reluctant space heroes when they [were] accidentally transported to a spaceship and tasked with saving an alien nation.”
The series will be written by Robert Gordon (who wrote the film version), directed by Dean Parisot and produced by Mark Johnson. Gordon, Parisot, Johnson and Melissa Bernstein will executive produce.
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I remember watching Galaxy Quest and seeing all the nods, in-jokes and such. Tim Allen’s character was such a nod to Shatner. His last name was even Nesmith which brought the Monkees who were part of that era into it also. Lotta love in that movie. Hard to think of this being done without that cast though.
THIS sounds FABULOUS! I love “Galaxy Quest”; just watched it again a week or so ago. I could see this being a series! The movie was well done!
By Grabthar’s hammer, this is great news!
….What? Somebody had to say it.
With ST3 already scheduled to come out next year in theaters, aren’t they running the risk of having too many Trek parodies running side-by-side?
Wait, what? NuTrek isn’t *supposed* to be a parody?
How the hell could Galaxy Quest be a series? It was barely a movie.
I loved this movie
It was a great Trek movie. lol
It was a better Trek movie than the last two Trek movies
What a stupid idea. Are they going to stretch the formula of the movie to a series length? Does this mean they will be re-telling the same joke over and over for 20 episodes a year and for 4 or 5 years? I’d rather see “Quark’s Bar” as a retooling of “Cheers”. That would be fun.
> I’d rather see “Quark’s Bar” as a retooling of “Cheers”.
They were already kinda there. You do realize that Morn = Norm, right?
What a brillaint idea! I hope they include ALL the jokes and add some more. Sounds like fun
I enjoyed Galaxy Quest as a film, but it would seem hard to sustain as a weekly comedy series. I wish them luck, but also wish Paramount would see the light that it’s time for a new Trek TV series. It’s been 10 years, c’mon already! The anticipation has built up quite enough by now.
I think the humor part comes if they “30 Rock” part of it–travails of making a weekly SF TV show–while actually fighting real aliens at times also, with the audience having no idea. Think about a satire about behind the scenes making of “DS9”, while the actors have to fight a real Dominion war.
It could also get real bad real quick, depending on how they do it. If each episode is a 30 minute stand-alone with no arc, I don’t think the format would support the concept long term–it would quickly devolve into a stereotype-fest if they don’t play it tongue-in-cheek (“this week we normal actors go to a fan convention, see how dorky the fans are…”). Their target audience has to be people who know SF shows, not the “general public” at large (i.e., you assume audience thinks SF folks are strange, period). Big Bang Theory shows that can be possible. Galaxy Quest itself shows it can be possible. Elsewhise, you’ll probably get a lousy 1980s sitcom that would be gone after 8 weeks.
It was the best one since Star Trek VI, by my estimation.
This kind of smart-assedness is why I snort the lines of cocaine and you don’t.
Then the last 3
This just shoves a possible Trek TV show that much farther away.
My old friend David Howard wrote the story for the original film and I still remember the story of how he got the original idea for the film. One day he took his kids to the IMAX at the Science Center here in LA and the narrator was non-other than Leonard Nimoy! David started wonder what his life and the rest of the actor’s lives from TOS were like after the show was done and it just kind of went from there.
I’m sad that it looks like he has nothing to do with this. For that reason alone I’m not sure I’ll watch.
Snort away. Lots and lots of it.
Tell him that I (Swedish guy) liked the movie and bought it on DVD. Thank you. Live long and parodyer!