Galaxy Quest TV Show Plot Details Revealed by Director Dean Parisot
19When Collider editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub spoke to Bill & Ted Face the Music director Dean Parisot earlier today, he couldn’t resist asking him about one of Parisot’s earlier projects, the beloved sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest. Specifically, we wanted to know about the long-rumored Amazon series based on the property, which would have reunited the starry cast (including Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell and Tony Shalhoub). Last we’d heard the project was stalled following the death of original cast member Alan Rickman. But Parisot provided a lot more information.
“Yes, we were going to make it. I remain very good friends with Bob Gordon, who wrote Galaxy Quest and Mark Johnson, who produced it and all those actors. We’re still friends and talk all the time. We were in the process of trying to do the series when Alan died,” Parisot explained. “We couldn’t go forward after that because we loved Alan, who was the sweetest, most generous person on the planet. We just couldn’t see it without him. We’re still talking about it all the time. Who knows.”
When the question was raised of how close the series came to air, it turns out it was very close. “We had a deal with Amazon,” Parisot said. “We were getting notes. There was a script. We had everybody on board.”
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