Tim Allen is still trying to get GALAXY QUEST 2 off the ground

Since Galaxy Quest was released in 1999, fans wanted to see the story continue with a sequel. It’s just such a funny and crazy story, full of lovely characters. Over the years there have been attempts to do Galaxy Quest 2. There have been attempts for a film and also an attempt to do a series.

During a recent interview with CB, Tim Allen offered an update on the sequel saying he wants to get Galaxy Quest 2 off the ground “in any way possible”. He went on to say:

“Consistently, this crew and everyone else with Galaxy Quest fought to do it ‘a few minutes later’ when the Thermians return. We literally talked about it yesterday, a bunch of us here, and we don’t know why. [it hasn’t happened]. There was a script and our friend Alan Rickman died, so the script that involved him and me in the whole story disappeared. The story itself was so clever and so funny. I love that crew and I love everything about Galaxy Quest. “

Original director Dean Parisot and co-writer Roberto Gordon they were developing the sequel that 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 hiccup because the wonderful Alan Rickman died. So it all became very sad and dark why [the script] that was all [Lazarus] and Taggart. It was all about their history. That doesn’t mean they can’t restart 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 that it 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 science fiction fanatic in me. But right now he’s in a waiting pattern. “

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

“We have lost the wonderful Alan [Rickman] unexpectedly, so he was put in mothballs, but I think they are finally reviving him now. It will be the story of the old Galaxy Questers that will be introduced in this series with another young cast. I haven’t read them so I don’t know the details, but I think everyone in Galaxy Quest would love to participate because it was a wonderful experience for us. How they will find someone to play the part of Alan, I don’t know, but I think they have a very good idea of ​​who has to do it. He is irreplaceable, eternally. I think there may be good news on that front, but I haven’t heard of it in these six months, so when that happens, I’m not sure. “

As for the series that had been developed for Amazon at one point, it would continue the story of the film’s adorable characters. She would also have involved two separate sets of characters whose adventures will come together as their stories unfold in the series. writer Paul Scheer explained:

“I’m thrilled with it. It’s a bigger idea that has morphed and changed a bit. Not so much. The thing I keep saying about it, without giving too much away – because it will be a long time before people see it, I don’t want people to get too exhausted from telling you what it is before it gets up 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 in what is the fun of that world. That Tropic Thunder, Galaxy Quest world. And also to continue the story of our original characters and have consequences from the first film.

So he’s mixing two casts. It’s a separate kind of blending adventures, and I’m looking at this first season not as an episodic, but as a serialized story. So, the only way I’ve looked at it is to use everything from the first movie and explain the reasons for everything beyond: I want to avoid anything that could be seen as a reboot to reboot. There are real reasons behind these choices, perhaps too many “.

It would be so good to see the story of Galaxy Quest continue somehow, but it’s going to be really hard to do without Alan Rickman, because he was one of the best parts of the original movie. Would you like to see a Galaxy Quest Continuation?