Yes, when I went to see ST:ID our group included someone who wasn't that familiar with Trek, and he was confused because "the bald guy" wasn't in the movie. Kor
Indeed. Galaxy Quest is a film that I think had everything align perfectly right, even with all the BTS ups and downs. Allen is a fantastic casting choice, completely sells every scene he is in.
I've always felt Cillian Murphy would make a good younger version of Tarkin. It's mostly in the eyes, not so much the jawline, as he has a coldly calculating yet calm look about them. He definitely has the look, IMHO.
That’s why…tool or no…I’d make him the focus of Galaxy Quest 2…with Nesmith actually meeting Taggart…a montage featuring them both bumping into Tim Allen. Nesmith is trying to get back to his reality. I’d only have Weaver as the other cast member. Taggart lost his crew in what in Nesmith’s world was a “missing episode” and Nesmith has to stop Taggart from killing the writer….but it isn’t Rickman I’d bring back with CG. The writer whose face you never see? Rod Serling..in the post credit scene erasing everything. There is a way to do this movie well.
Serling died about 4 years before the in-universe Galaxy Quest premiered, though. If anything, GQ would've probably been a Glen Larson show (like Buck Rogers, although Larson was uninvolved with BR's second season which so strongly resembled GQ).
I'm imagining a scene in which Tim Allen and some of his crew go to the writer's house to demand their jobs back. "You can't do this to us! We're people. We have.. jobs! We're actors, playing people out in space. That's what we do, you can't cut us!"
Considering previous things Tim Allen has said about feeling like a Jew in Nazi Germany because he's a Republican I don't think a movie focusing on him crying about being cancelled would turn out the way we all imagine.
I think wayoung's point is that comedy doesn't automatically forgive bad ideas, and that some attempts at humor are clueless and in very bad taste. People don't critique bad comedy because they're "too serious," but because they have standards for distinguishing good comedy from bad.
Ok, I can understand that. Point taken, and fair enough. Perhaps it was a bad idea. Wasn't thinking on the political angle when I posted.
Yup. I'm not saying, "Don't do a galaxy quest sequel because Time Allen said some dumbass things!". I'm saying don't do that idea of a Galaxy Quest sequel, because when you add the context of the dumbass things Allen says, it changes the way that specific idea can be taken.
I have a memory of Steven Merchant and Ricky Gervais meeting with Johnny Depp who was offended that they dared call Tim unfunny.
I was looking up the Action Pack syndicated TV shows and came across The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space. Ever heard of it? Came out between Three Amgios and Galaxy Quest with the same premise.
Oh, yes, that was a fun one. Had Liz Vassey at her most gorgeous and a villainous Ron Perlman, and the music was by Shirley Walker, with the theme being very similar to her later Superman: The Animated Series theme.
Boy, Liz Vassey. Speaker of one of the most iconic Teaser stingers in TNG history: "If we're in space, on a starship, what am I doing in sickbay wearing a swimsuit?"
I’m of the opinion franchises like Galaxyquest and Austin Powers should have the heroes run into parodies of the more gritty versions and have to work together.