Amazon is Moving Forward With Their GALAXY QUEST Series and They've Hired a New Writer
Amazon Studios is once again moving forward with their Galaxy Quest TV series! This is great news because I've been really looking forward to seeing it since it was announced a couple years ago.
The streaming service has hired writer-actor-comedian Paul Scheer (The League) to write the script for the series, which is freakin' great! Scheer is a funny guy and I love his work on The League. Unfortunately, he will be replacing Robert Gordon, who was the writer of the original film.
The Amazon series is described as "a new take on the cult movie that starred Tim Allen, the late Alan Rickman as well as Sigourney Weaver." There's no word on if any of the original stars will return. Some of the other cast members included Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell and Enrico Colantoni.
The classic 1999 film followed a group of washed-up TV actors who starred in a sci-fi show who actually get caught up in a real intergalactic adventure to save an alien race. It gives them the opportunity to step up and become heroes. It's such an amazingly funny movie!
I really hope they can capture the heart and comedy of the original movie for this new series. The reason the whole series fell apart in the first place was because of Alan Rickman's passing last year. In 2016 Rockwell said:
"We were ready to sign up, and [then] Alan Rickman passed away and Tim Allen wasn’t available — he ha[d] [Last Man Standing] — and everybody’s schedule was all weird. It was going to shoot, like, right now. And how do you fill that void of Alan Rickman? That’s a hard void to fill."
It really is, and if they still plan on bringing back the original cast members, it will be interesting to see how they handle Rickman's absence. It seems like they could definitely get Tim Allen back if they wanted because his Last Man Standing show has since been canceled.
Regardless of how this series comes together, I'm still excited about it.
Via: THR