Sam Rockwell says Simon Pegg is helping with GALAXY QUEST sequel project

Over the years there has been talk of both a Galaxy Quest2 film and a series of sequels. Fans would love to see the Galaxy Quest the story continues somehow. The first movie was really damn fun, and it’s so crazy to me that it takes so long to make something work.

One of the last updates we had on this was that Paramount+ was developing a Galaxy Quest series. Before that, a sequel series was very close to happening on Amazon, but after that Alan Rickmann he died, he fell to pieces.

Now, during a recent interview with GQ, Sam Rockwell offered a brief but interesting update. He revealed it Simone Pegg he was helping with the project! The full quote from him reads:

“If there was a sequel to Galaxy Quest, we would have taken care of it. We talked about it maybe as a limited series, yes. Simon Pegg talked about helping out, actually.”

Pegg would be the perfect addition to the creative team for a series like this. So if it ever happens, it would be great to see him involved.

Then, there is Tim Allen who constantly pushed hard to make a sequel. She previously said: “Consistently, this crew and everyone else with Galaxy Quest he fought to do so “moments later” when the Thermians return. We literally talked about this just yesterday, as a group here, and we don’t know why [it hasn’t happened]. There was a script and our friend Alan Rickman died, so that script that involved him and me in the whole story disappeared. The story itself was so clever and funny. I love that crew and I love everything about Galaxy Quest.”

Original director Dean Parisot and co-writer Robert Gordon they were developing the sequel Allen talks about, and that story would focus on the relationship between Allen’s character Jason Nesmith, aka Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, and Rickman’s Alexander Dane, aka Dr. Lazarus. Allen previously said:

“It’s a fabulous script. But there was a hitch because the wonderful Alan Rickman was missing. So everything got very sad and dark because [the script] it was everything [Lazarus] and Taggart. It was all about their story. That doesn’t mean they can’t reboot the idea, and the underlying story was hysterical and funny.”

He went on to share that the sequel’s plot also revolved around space travel at the speed of light, and would find the crew out of sync with the rest of the planet:

“[The sequel] it could happen now or in five years and it doesn’t matter at all because when you travel at the speed of light, when you come back it may only be 20 minutes, but it’s been 20 years, right? That part is wonderful for the sci-fi freak in me. But right now it’s in a holding pattern.

Sigourney Weaver also previously spoke about the status of the sequel saying:

“We have lost the wonderful Alan [Rickman] unexpectedly, so it got mothballed, but I think they’re finally reviving it. It will be the story of the old Galaxy Questars who will be brought into this series with another young cast. I haven’t read them, so I don’t know the details, but I think everyone at Galaxy Quest would like to participate because it was a wonderful experience for us. How they’re going to find someone to play the part of Alan, I don’t know, but I think they have a very good idea of ​​who to do it. It is irreplaceable, for eternity. I think there might be some good news on that front, but I haven’t heard anything about it in the last six months, so when it will happen, I’m not sure.”

As for the series that was at one point in development for Amazon, it would have continued the story of the lovable characters from the film. She would also involve two separate groups of characters whose adventures will merge as their stories unfold in the series. writer Paolo Scheer explained:

“I’m thrilled about it. It’s a bigger idea that’s been transformed and changed a little bit. Not so much. What I keep saying about it, without giving too much away, is that it’s going to take so long for people to see it, I don’t want people to get too exhausted because I’ll tell you what it is before it arrives. to that point, but for me it was really important to do a service to a Galaxy Quest story that gives you everything you want and indoctrinates people who have never seen Galaxy Quest as to what the fun of that world is. That Tropic Thunder, the Galaxy Quest world. And also to continue the story of our original characters and have consequences from the first film.

So it’s mixing two casts. They’re separate adventures that come together, and I look at this first season not as an episodic story, but as a serialized story. So, the only way I saw it was to use everything from the first movie and explain the reasons for everything not only – I want to avoid anything that could be seen as a reboot for reboot’s sake. There are real reasons behind these choices, perhaps too many.”

Think this Galaxy Quest Will there ever be a sequel series or movie?