Question Now back after 20 years...

Now, back again after 20 years, The New Adventures of Galaxy Quest.

In 2019, we should expect to see a TV show based on the 1999 movie 'Galaxy Quest'. For those unfortunate enough not to have seen this great film, the story is of a washed up group of TV actors who have been stuck doing convention appearances after their star-trek-esque TV show was cancelled 20 years beforehand. They are then abducted by aliens who have recieved broadcasts of the show from space, and have (falsely believing the show to be a documentary) modelled their entire society after the TV show. Now, the actors must take command of their once-fictional vessel and save a entire species.

BUT WE'RE GETTING A F**KING TV SHOW OF GALAXY QUEST!!! NEXT YEAR!!! TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE MOVIE CAME OUT IN 1999!!! AMAZON IS DOING IT!!!!!

[deep breath]

Not much is known right now, but the release date is expected to be sometime next year.

And NOW FOR A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE

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So we're getting Galaxy Quest, a show spoofing Star Trek, that inspired The Orville, to compete with the Orville and Star Trek?

So a parody of a parody of a show that Jumped the Shark?

That deafening sound you hear is the mantle of Planet Earth being breached under the crust, below the bottom of the empty barrel of ideas in Hollywierd.

Geez.

It might be interesting, if they make it like the movie -- not so much the Galaxy Quest series itself, but a series about the production of Galaxy Quest: The Series.

I'd be interested in seeing the series about the fans that helped the crew, as they would be the only ones that really knew how the technology worked...

I dunno. Alan Rickman is dead, way too soon, Alan, rest in peace. Daryl Mitchell is a paraplegic from a motorcycle crash, even Brandon is forty! (Do ya feel old yet?)

Sir Lee's meta take of a show about the making of a show could be interesting, but I dunno if there is a series there. But then, I don't know if there is a series about actors living out our dreams either. And going straight to Galaxy Quest the show removes all the cute and funny bits of the movie. Eh, time will tell I guess, but I have to say I don't have high hopes.

E. E. Nalley wrote: So we're getting Galaxy Quest, a show spoofing Star Trek, that inspired The Orville, to compete with the Orville and Star Trek?

So a parody of a parody of a show that Jumped the Shark?

That deafening sound you hear is the mantle of Planet Earth being breached under the crust, below the bottom of the empty barrel of ideas in Hollywierd.

Geez.

I have worked in Hollywood since age 16 on crews all over and we have a little know team

the clean up guys and gals

they go into an office when a person has had to or tried in vain to have an original thought for a show or movie...lots of sponges and squeegees are used I am told and no---brains do not wash out of silks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


like this

E. E. Nalley wrote: That deafening sound you hear is the mantle of Planet Earth being breached under the crust, below the bottom of the empty barrel of ideas in Hollywierd.

In this instance, it probably sounds a lot like this:

No no no...ATPT, we have been told it's going to be about the Thermians returning to enlist the help of the older and now retired crewmembers, alongside a TNG-like new cast of actors portraying a new crew. Alan Rickman obviously won't be appearing, but all the other actors (AFAIK) are still alive. Just older and less limber. It's going to be like Galaxy Quest the movie, but as a TV show following the events of the movie and probably some time after the end of Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues.

It MIGHT feature Brandon and the other nerds, as Brandon was a major character in IDW's Galaxy Quest comic series a while back, and apparently the actor was willing in the past to reprise his role should the original movie get a sequel. As for Rickman...in the comics it was explained that he negotiated his way out of the series to go back to stage acting, and that his character was killed off in the first season of the revival TV show in-universe. They're probably going to also add to this by saying that his character died tragically, and that the other characters miss him or something in the pilot for the real-world TV show.

I'm really excited, as this is a fresh opportunity to have a show that is a parody of a sci fi TV show that doesn't take place in the fictional universe of the show depicted within that world's show as the parody of our real world science fiction TV Show, whose fans accept the parody movie that spawned this new TV show as a canon movie in the place of a movie we shall not speak of. Or, you could argue that those fans accept this movie as a replacement for the last four movies.

Confused???

CrazyMinh wrote: As for Rickman...in the comics it was explained that he negotiated his way out of the series to go back to stage acting, and that his character was killed off in the first season of the revival TV show in-universe. They're probably going to also add to this by saying that his character died tragically, and that the other characters miss him or something in the pilot for the real-world TV show.

Love to see a parody shot of this done like him doing the fall in die hard! but in his alien form off a cliff or something??

did you know how that got that 'look' of shock on his face??

they did this...we are going to drop you on a count of five..one two DROP! and he freaked!