Grace Lee Whitney and Majel Barrett are gone too.
Takei, Shatner, Koenig, and Nichols are about the last people left. (Takei and Koenig are in their eighties. Shatner and Nichols are pushing NINETY.)
"Galaxy Quest 2" Back On?
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Grace Lee Whitney and Majel Barrett are gone too.
Takei, Shatner, Koenig, and Nichols are about the last people left. (Takei and Koenig are in their eighties. Shatner and Nichols are pushing NINETY.)
Amazing that we still have so many of them still with us. And the TNG cast are now looking decidedly up in years. Stewart must be 80 by now. Frakes is well into his 60's. Even Wil Wheaton is probably pushing 50.
Please, no Galaxy Quest sequel. It had a wonderfully satisfying ending. Don't wreck it.
Please, no Galaxy Quest sequel. It had a wonderfully satisfying ending. Don't wreck it.
Stewart just turned 80.
Wil Wheaton is officially older now than Patrick Stewart was when TNG began production, so yeah, he's about 50.
No, it's not. But it is hysterical how much effort you put into it with tl;dr posts!
And he could technically be his own Captain and get his own series. At the least, it would be kind of nice to see him in Picard.
But he's not bald so his characters are still younger.
Wil Wheaton grew a beard because without it he still looks 13. I'll bet real money on it.
Looking forward to GQ2!
I'd like to see more of the uniforms the crew wears in the last minute of the movie.
Perhaps we'll get a bit more merch this time?
Eaglemoss had been planning on bringing out the NSEA Protector at the end of 2021 before the pandemic hit.
Has anybody read the older or the newer GQ comics? The latter included a view of a kind-of mirror universe!
I'd like to see more of the uniforms the crew wears in the last minute of the movie.
Perhaps we'll get a bit more merch this time?
Eaglemoss had been planning on bringing out the NSEA Protector at the end of 2021 before the pandemic hit.
Has anybody read the older or the newer GQ comics? The latter included a view of a kind-of mirror universe!
I just rewatched an episode of Jack of All Trades and I'm reminded again of what I've always said: Bruce Campbell should have been cast in that role, not Tim Allen. Bruce could do a perfect combination of action, over-the-top farce and Adam West-style deadpan high camp, and many women found him to be sexy in his prime. You can't say that about Tim Allen with his bulbous nose, crooked teeth and weak chin. Tim just did a parody of an over-the-hill star of an 80s cult classic, while Bruce actually was a bona fide cult classic B-actor of the 80s. What could be more appropriate? The movie would have been so much better with Bruce in the lead. In fact, Bruce actually did a movie a few years later with a similar premise, My Name Is Bruce, where he as himself is mistaken for his own movie persona, but without a good writer and director, it wasn't anywhere near as funny as Galaxy Quest.
As I recall, Enrico Colantoni doesn't want to do a sequel because he knows most sequels aren't as good as the originals, and Mathesar was a big part of the movie. You can't do Galaxy Quest without the Protector, and the Thermians have that. Wouldn't be the same if some other aliens asked for help or something. Not to mention what do you do about Daryl Mitchell, who became a paraplegic since the movie? We've seen that the Thermians have great medical technology that can heal a broken arm in hours. No way to explain why they wouldn't be able to heal Tommy's broken spinal cord.
IOW, he played the character as it was written. He did his job as a professional.
As I mentioned upthread, they could play with the trendy "re-boot" trope (the OG cast acting alongside actors in their twenties and thirties playing younger versions of the original characters).
That way, you wouldn't necessarily NEED the entire original cast.
No, the rest of the movie was not as bad as his part. Seriously, was anything as groan-worthy as watching him slick back his mullet after flipping an alien over his shoulder in the "original" Galaxy Quest intro? That implies he was some kind of self-aware sex symbol a la Shatner, and Tim Allen was anything but. He was never a handsome man. Hiring him for that role was like hiring Gilda Radner to play Gwen. She's funny, but otherwise would be all wrong for the part. He said in interviews that the original director, Harold Ramis, wanted more of a Spaceballs vibe that he disagreed with, and if that intro scene doesn't give you that feeling, I don't know what would.
Terrible idea. Worse than when they wanted to make a Starfleet Academy series back in the 70s featuring a young Kirk, Spock and McCoy. Meanwhile, the young Kirk, Spock, et al. of the JJverse alienated half the fanbase despite Nimoy's presence.
How would you do that?
They're fictional characters in-universe. They don't possess any objective reality.
It's a comedy, a spoof.
A degree of OTT is to be expected (Sigourney had to have her chest "enhanced" in order to play Gwen).
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Quite easily, I should think. Indeed, one could say it would be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
He did and is one of the highlights of the film. I loved the behind the scenes interview with him when he talked about his inspiration for how he would sit in the captain's chair, which many thought was a Shatner reference but he actually took inspiration from Yul Brenner in "The Ten Commandments."
Also, a sequel feels so poor. Rickman's gone and he was the second best part.