In a bizarre twist that could only come from Hollywood, Variety reports that Paramount Television is shopping around a reboot of the 1999 film Galaxy Quest.
More below the orange cloud of interstellar dust.
Galaxy Quest was a comedy film about a not-Star Trek television show's cast that had their show cancelled.
The cast got the opportunity to go to space for real (in the film), to go forth and save a society of aliens from an evil warlord.
From Wikipedia:
It stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, and Daryl Mitchell as the cast of a defunct television series called Galaxy Quest, in which the crew of a spaceship embarked on intergalactic adventures. Enrico Colantoni also stars as the leader of an alien race who ask the actors for help, believing the show's adventures were real.
The aliens, believing the television show (which it had intercepted) was a documentary, built their entire society around the television show (in a spoof of the Star Trek episode where a society built its society around the Chicago mobs), even building a spaceship mimicking their own, the NSEA
Protector.
So we're left with:
A movie (which never became a franchise) about a cancelled television programme's cast saving an alien race becoming a television show carrying on the tradition of the never-completed movie franchise. Yup, only in Hollywood.
The film received critical praise and reached cult status through the years, becoming popular with Star Trek fans, staff, and cast members. It won the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the Nebula Award for Best Script and was also nominated for ten Saturn Awards including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director for Parisot, Best Actress for Weaver and Best Supporting Actor for Rickman, winning Best Actor for Allen.
Three of the show's most memorable quotes (with plenty more at Wikiquote):
- By Grabthar's Hammer, by the sons of Warvan, you shall be avenged.
- Never give up, never surrender!
- Are we there yet?