Galaxy Quest TV Series Under Construction

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Paramount has been eagerly raiding the film archive for titles to turn into TV series, and it has its next target on the radar. 1999’s Galaxy Quest is now in development for the small screen.

The movie, in case you’ve never seen it, took a satirical look at the casts of Star Trek in particular, following the misadventures of a group of actors still dealing with being typecast as their characters on the sci-fi series Galaxy Quest. Preening leading man Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen), who played Captain Peter Quincey Taggart, has long since annoyed the rest of his former colleagues to breaking point with his slack attitude. But then they’re contacted by a group of aliens they mistake to be super fans, who need their help with a nasty tyrant creature. The result? the group is suddenly flung into a very real situation in space. 

Director Dean Parisot is in negotiations to work on the new project alongside original writers Robert Gordon and David Howard. Producers Melissa Bernstein and Mark Johnson, who were also part of the creative team, are returning having worked on shows such as Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. 

Whether any of the cast will be tempted back for what could be a long-running series remains to be seen: we doubt the likes of Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell and Alan Rickman would have time for that commitment, so expect the show to either re-cast the main roles or find some other corner of the Galaxy to explore.

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