Galaxy Quest TV Series in Devlopment at Amazon

[JD]

I just read on IGN that Amazon Studios have started development of a Galaxy Quest TV series, with the original writer, director, and producers from the movie all working on it.
I love the movie, and would absolutely love to see a series.

 

[B.J.]

If it's being done by Amazon Studios, does that mean it'll only be available on their service? If so, I'll never get to see it.

 

[Icemizer]

My amazon prime subscription will no doubt be getting larger.

 

[Silvercrest]

I keep hearing about this and the premise is unclear.
1) Is it a case of the actors being mistaken for their characters and flying around in space again, as in the movie?
2) Is it a TV show about making a "Galaxy Quest" TV show? That has some promise, especially if they set it after the movie. They could cut back and forth between "making of" sequences and the actual episodes. You could see Jason Nesmith learning to share the spotlight with his costars, alternating with action sequences of Commander Taggert. Or Alexander Dane still struggling with being typecast as Dr. Lazarus.
3) Or is it just the "Galaxy Quest" TV show, period? As it's just a Trek pastiche at heart, that doesn't sound very interesting. They'll have to get really creative or it will go down fast.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I worry this could turn out like Amazon's attempt at a Zombieland series. Its highly unlikely they will get any of the cast to return. So it will feel like a cheap off Broadway revival.

 

[JD]

Yeah, that's my biggest fear too.
As for the premise, I would assume they'd end up going back out into space. Leaving them on Earth, just making the show would be to big of a change in the premise IMO. IDW did a comic book miniseries where a new alien bad guy showed up and went after the cast seeking revenge for something that happened because of the first movie. I could something along those lines working for the show, or maybe the Thermians show up and they just take off with them to go on a whole series of adventures.

 

[DWF]

I keep hearing about this and the premise is unclear.
1) Is it a case of the actors being mistaken for their characters and flying around in space again, as in the movie?
2) Is it a TV show about making a "Galaxy Quest" TV show? That has some promise, especially if they set it after the movie. They could cut back and forth between "making of" sequences and the actual episodes. You could see Jason Nesmith learning to share the spotlight with his costars, alternating with action sequences of Commander Taggert. Or Alexander Dane still struggling with being typecast as Dr. Lazarus.
3) Or is it just the "Galaxy Quest" TV show, period? As it's just a Trek pastiche at heart, that doesn't sound very interesting. They'll have to get really creative or it will go down fast.

No. 2 would be the most confusing of the three but the concept of the movie does present a problem as to what direction the series might take.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Re: Galaxy Quest TV Series in Development at Amazon

I am going to guess this will be a 2018 series.

http://deadline.com/2015/04/galaxy-quest-series-paramount-television-1201413544/

Does this coincide with Paramount re-releasing a 4k remastered new Blu-ray edition of Galaxy Quest with possible the alternative R-rated cut?
see Galaxy Quest "R" version ? also 20th anniversary in 2019

 

[ALF]

Tim Allen or GTFO!

Not sure what they are thinking... the story did great under two hours - not sure how it could hold up week after week. Besides, wasn't the original film basically a Star Trek farce? I think people are all sci-fi farced out (cough, http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Detours, cough).

 

[Christopher]

Besides, wasn't the original film basically a Star Trek farce?

People always say that, and there was indeed a lot of Trek in the mix, but it was actually riffing on a lot of SFTV. Galaxy Quest was an early '80s show in-universe, so that puts it in the generation of Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Alexander Dane owed as much to Barry Morse from Space: 1999 as he did to Nimoy, and I always thought that the "warrior alien" Dr. Lazarus reminded me of Hawk from Buck Rogers. The token character whose job is basically to repeat what the computer says is reminiscent of David Kano from Space: 1999, and a female officer who's just there to look pretty is as much like Athena from Galactica as Uhura. The precocious kid Laredo as part of the crew is evocative of Will from Lost in Space or -- uggghhh -- Doctor Zee from Galactica 1980. The cheesy wire-and-puppet effects suggest the Irwin Allen shows or maybe Space: 1999 (though its wirework spaceship scenes were mostly superb). The bit with the random deathtraps in the ship's corridor is just a nod to action shows in general, maybe a bit of Irwin Allen or Doctor Who or the Glen Larson shows.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

Galaxy Quest was an early '80s show in-universe, so that puts it in the generation of Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Alexander Dane owed as much to Barry Morse from Space: 1999 as he did to Nimoy, and I always thought that the "warrior alien" Dr. Lazarus reminded me of Hawk from Buck Rogers. The token character whose job is basically to repeat what the computer says is reminiscent of David Kano from Space: 1999, and a female officer who's just there to look pretty is as much like Athena from Galactica as Uhura. The precocious kid Laredo as part of the crew is evocative of Will from Lost in Space or -- uggghhh -- Doctor Zee from Galactica 1980. The cheesy wire-and-puppet effects suggest the Irwin Allen shows or maybe Space: 1999 (though its wirework spaceship scenes were mostly superb). The bit with the random deathtraps in the ship's corridor is just a nod to action shows in general, maybe a bit of Irwin Allen or Doctor Who or the Glen Larson shows.

Here's a scary thought, would Star Trek have turned out like that if it was made a decade later?