Post by Hollywood Heidi on Apr 21, 2015 23:52:26 GMT -8
My immediate reaction when I saw the headline was giddy excitement but after reading the below article and thinking about it more, I'm not sure yet if I should be or not. First of all, it just wouldn't be the same if they didn't have the original cast in it but I just can't picture at least two of them signing on. Second of all, is it going to be the series that the actors had been in (old or as we saw at the end of the movie, revived) where it's just a scripted show they're acting in or is it going to be the actors actually sucked into real aliens and spaceships shenanigans? I'm sure it'll be the latter. Either way, I'm definitely going to keep track for more info and to see if this even happens!
Jason: The show must go on.
Alexander: ...Damn you.
There's a Galaxy Quest TV Series in the Works
By Tim Surette
Apparently television studios will never give up, never surrender their attempts to reboot every existing TV and film franchise out there. The latest victim is one of my favorite movies, the 1999 science-fiction comedy masterpiece Galaxy Quest. Paramount Television is in the early stages of developing a Galaxy Quest TV series, Deadline reports, and I don't know whether to cry or do cartwheels.
Currently, there's no network attached to the project, but Galaxy Quest writer Robert Gordon, director Dean Parisot, and producer Mark Johnson are all on board.
Galaxy Quest was, of course, about washed-up actors from a popular sci-fi TV series who were mistaken for real heroes by an alien race and transported into space to help them fight off an evil villain and save their planet. Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, Alan Rickman, Enrico Colantoni, and Sam Rockwell made up the kick-ass cast.
There are two ways to look at this: On one hand, I'm glad TV is rebooting something great, because the onslaught of recent revivals has been hit-or-miss in terms of necessity. On the other hand, good source material is that much easier to mess up, tainting the legacy of the original. At this point, I'm wary of a Galaxy Quest reboot because I'm pessimistic about the outcome, but I'm also too beaten down by the industry's overwhelming push to revive old franchises to fight it. Sigh. By Grabthar's Hammer, this better be amazing.
From tv.com - www.tv.com/news/galaxy-quest-tv-series-development-142964586777/
Jason: The show must go on.
Alexander: ...Damn you.
There's a Galaxy Quest TV Series in the Works
By Tim Surette
Apparently television studios will never give up, never surrender their attempts to reboot every existing TV and film franchise out there. The latest victim is one of my favorite movies, the 1999 science-fiction comedy masterpiece Galaxy Quest. Paramount Television is in the early stages of developing a Galaxy Quest TV series, Deadline reports, and I don't know whether to cry or do cartwheels.
Currently, there's no network attached to the project, but Galaxy Quest writer Robert Gordon, director Dean Parisot, and producer Mark Johnson are all on board.
Galaxy Quest was, of course, about washed-up actors from a popular sci-fi TV series who were mistaken for real heroes by an alien race and transported into space to help them fight off an evil villain and save their planet. Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, Alan Rickman, Enrico Colantoni, and Sam Rockwell made up the kick-ass cast.
There are two ways to look at this: On one hand, I'm glad TV is rebooting something great, because the onslaught of recent revivals has been hit-or-miss in terms of necessity. On the other hand, good source material is that much easier to mess up, tainting the legacy of the original. At this point, I'm wary of a Galaxy Quest reboot because I'm pessimistic about the outcome, but I'm also too beaten down by the industry's overwhelming push to revive old franchises to fight it. Sigh. By Grabthar's Hammer, this better be amazing.
From tv.com - www.tv.com/news/galaxy-quest-tv-series-development-142964586777/