Rumor is Paramount Television is sniffing around the idea of a Galaxy Quest TV series.
Does anyone think they could possibly make such a thing gorignak? The movie was excellent, but when it was done, it was a historical document. Where could they possibly go with it?
The problem I see is that Galaxy Quest was about a bunch of actors faking their way through being heroes. If it’s done as a series, it means they’ll be doing it every week. How long will it take before they’re actual heroes, not just fake heroes?
Okay, if it was about the show within the movie, I can see it as parody, possibly a live-action version of Tripping the Rift, with the occasional fourth-wall breaking, such as happened after every Roger Rabbit short.
I watch too many cartoons.
For that matter, why not* Galaxy Quest: The Animated Series*?
One problem I can see is that it was a joke in the movie that all the female character did was repeat what the ship’s computer said. If we actually see that week to week, the bit will get old fast.
Should be about as good as “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.”
If they do this, they should have Guy killed off every week with a new actor the next episode.
They can do it. They have to mix the earlier historic documents of the Galaxy Quest TOS with newer episodes following the contact with the alien species. It will just be a parody, pretty much a more comic version of Star Trek TOS.
That’s probably just as well, because I don’t think they can afford to keep Sam Rockwell on the cast any more.
I don’t see doing this sort of series being possible with the original actors, just due to age. I’d expect a Next Generation setup, with maybe the others coming on for recurring roles occasionally.
If they don’t go with the show in-universe, I could see it being a new crew for the show that gets taken up by aliens, like the old guys did. And so you have normal people trying to cope in a Star Trek setting on a continual basis. You’d have the humans unable to return home for a while.
I think that would be more true to the movie than just making the in-universe show. And you still get all the parody.
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Rumor is Paramount Television is sniffing around the idea of a Galaxy Quest TV series.
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Does anyone think they could possibly make such a thing gorignak? The movie was excellent, but when it was done, it was a historical document. Where could they possibly go with it?
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What’s their motivation?
And will they get ILM to make a rudimentary lathe?
But the premise is inside out!
Get Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman et al to sign on for a series? Ain’t gonna happen. They’ll all be recast.
I’d like to see something like 30 Rock, a workplace comedy about the making of a cheesy sci-fi show, maybe with a scene or two from that week’s “episode” worked in.
You take that back!
Kolchak was great!
Tim Allen is easily getable. Has his other show been cancelled yet? Weaver I could see doing it. She probably wants to do something else beside playing evil corporate bosses in genre movies (Cabin in the Woods, Chappie, etc).
Rickman probably wouldn’t be into it.
I like the idea of a 30 Rock style behind the scenes show but with the extra layer of the cast getting routinely kidnapped into space to deal with real sci-fi threats.
“I said take a lunch order, not a launch order!”
I will not! Nyah-nyah! 
::runs like hell, as if there was a cheesy looking monster on his tail::
You know…I could sort-of see it set up as a straight sf-show about the aliens doing their thing, where, every time they ran into a problem, they’d whip out their extensive “research library” of an incredibly cheesy 60s sci-fi show to tell them how to solve the weirdness-of-the-week. So you’d really only need the “young” versions of the humans, except for the guy from Monk, anyway.
Alas, Bob Denver is dead.
“Industrial Might and Logic”.
By Grabthar’s Hammer - a show-within-a-show might be the best way to handle it. Production issues and backstage with some scenes from the show.
They could explain the recasting by making “Galaxy Quest: the Next Generation”
Brian