Cult Sci-Fi Film Galaxy Quest Returning As TV Show?
August 31, 2015 by brennon
Sometimes we like to chat about things outside of the realms of miniatures but still relevant to our community. The news that Galaxy Quest, a great Sci-Fi comedy which made light of, but never mocked, nerd culture could be returning as a TV series through Amazon...
The film saw a host of big names playing characters who were themselves rather big in a TV series like Star Trek only to find themselves signing autographs and opening stores after the show finished. However, aliens believing that they are the heroes the show makes them out to be abduct them in order to help them in their time of need.
I think I went to see the film twice in the cinema and it was a lot of fun. This is also the kind of property that I could see being made into some kind of zany board or card game by a company like Gale Force Nine.
Would you watch a TV series of Galaxy Quest?
"This is also the kind of property that I could see being made into some kind of zany board or card game by a company like Gale Force Nine..."
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Sounds good if this takes off maybe people should get ready to hound them to get firefly back on the air? Of coarse they will have to fix the slight problem of Wash being dead?
Isn’t that what interquals are for? 😉
Is this going to be a sequel to the film or is it going to be a defictionalisation of the series within the film?
There are a lot of directions a TV series could go with something like this. The characters might be simultaneously filming an episode of their show, and fighting off aliens every week. I doubt they can get the likes of Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver for an Amazon television series. Although, I don’t know that an Amazon series will use a television style film schedule. They’re more likely to do it like Netflicks did with Arrested Development, and create/release the whole season at once. Still, not easy to get those actors on board. They might do it like Buffy- use… Read more »
awesome news 😀
I’ve been hoping they’d do something with this property for years 🙂
I was hoping for a netflix series, but amazon will do just fine too 😉
A bit of half-heart rant :
Meh… the movie was really good but what i really want is a really good sci-fi series like the Star Trek : Next Generation. I’d finish watching Falling Skies and it was kinda decent but not at the level of what i really want in those old sci-fi that made you think about trascendent problems that humanity always face and teach good lessons about them, everything now is kinda dramatic/romantic/action-base and i rather play a video game that watch a live action of one.
As much as I agree with you I can’t see it happening a time soon. If nothing else when was the last time anything like that had more than a 8 to 13 episode series. You really need longer series to filter out the inevitable dud episodes. Take TNG for example how easily are the Wesley centric or beardless Riker episodes forgotten but there are quite a few of them. I doubt they would have blended into the background so much if you had lost quarter of a season to them. The same is true with Buffy ds9 babylon5 battlestar… Read more »
Actually i prefer a 12 episodes serie instead of a long thing that goes nowhere. I ended up falling in love with Seinen Anime, series that really bend my brain like Serial Experiments Lain, Ergo Proxy, Psycho Pass, Steins:Gate and many more are the ones i truly love… but lately Ecchi/Romantic/Comedy is what is the most popular and is very sad because they tend to be clones of each other and very plain in many cases… and i’m only left with survival-games mangas or things like that, mostly clones also…
The problem with long seasons (22-24 episodes) is that there is a sort of formula to the season. The 2-3 episodes set up the season, a bunch of meaningless episodes, then 2-3 episodes that take us into the midseason break. The second half of the season basically follows this. So in a 22-24 episode season you end up with about 10-12 really important episodes to the story. This is why I also like the shorter series of about 12 episodes. They tend to be very tight concise stories.
True you get a much tighter core story but over all the universe suffers for such a tight focus. Certainly i havn’t seen many things in the last decade (in scifi) or so that has had as rich a universe and well rounded cast of characters as say babylon 5 or DS9. Sure the dud episodes tended to not drive the main plot forward but did round out the characters somewhat. Whilst they can be formulaic especially in series that had monster of the week and big bad finales you also get truly off the wall long series like LEXX… Read more »
By Grabthar’s hammer!
My two favorite lines in that movie: “By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Worvan, you shall be avenged.” “[In disgust] By Grabthar’s hammer… what a savings.”
Such a fun movie. A great starting point for more space adventure that is also funny.
…going to have to watch it again tonight now!
I know this is something I’ll enjoy. Some of the animation was pretty cool, and the storyline was a fun way to play on the scifi space-trek genre.
Let’s hope it happens … remote controls at the ready!!! … Walts
Never give up, never surrender!!
The only reason this might work is because it is going to be on Amazon and not network television. SciFi is expensive to produce with the sets and effects. This is one of the reasons that a series like Firefly will likely never be resurrected. It never found an audience (I now people argue that Fox never gave it a chance but I go back to my point about cost).
I’ll give it a watch. Movie is fantastic, but it is getting on for twenty years since it was release – is there that big a geek audience?
The biggest shows on American TV, and by quite a stretch, as far as viewings and revenue generation are Game of Thrones and Walking Dead. The most watched Sitcom is Big Bang Theory. So there is a lot of love for Geek tv. It will be interesting to see how interested people will be though in a cult franchise, that as you said is nearly 20 years old.
Well that’s unexpected as well as interesting.
This can work if they make it about the actors doing the “New Generation” TV show and them trying to hide the truth that they get called every now and then to go on real space missions.
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