Galaxy Quest 2: Sigourney Weaver Gives An Update On The Latest

Sigourney Weaver has provided an update on Galaxy Quest 2, saying in a new interview that work is now underway to revive the franchise as a TV series. Speaking to Collider, Weaver said the producers were "in the middle of reviving it" when star Alan Rickman passed away, and now plans are in motion to start up again, but don't get too excited just yet.

Weaver, who played Tawny Madison in the 1999 original movie, said Galaxy Quest 1 writer Bob Gordon had finished a script for a sequel that would have been edgier than the first movie. Weaver remarked that DreamWorks cut some of the "wittiest" scenes from the first movie, so Gordon didn't want to work with the film studio on the sequel.

Gordon brought his ideas to Amazon, which was prepared to make a Galaxy Quest TV series until Rickman's passing. "We lost the wonderful Alan [Rickman] unexpectedly, so that was put in mothballs, but I think they are finally now reviving it," Weaver said.

She said the story will follow the "old ancient Galaxy Questers being brought into this series with another young cast."

Weaver said she hasn't read the pages for the new Galaxy Quest series, so she doesn't have any specifics. But she remarked that "everyone in Galaxy Quest" wants to come back.

"How they will find someone to play Alan's part, don't know, but I think that they have a very good idea of who to do it," she said. "He's irreplaceable, eternally. I think there may be good news on that front, but I haven't heard about it in these six months, so when it's gonna happen, I'm not sure."

Before this, Galaxy Quest's Tim Allen said there is hope for Galaxy Quest 2. "There is constantly a little flicker of a butane torch that we could reboot it with. Without giving too much away, a member of Alan's Galaxy Quest family could step in and the idea would still work," he said.

Galaxy Quest follows the story of the cast of a TV show who come to meet real aliens who unknowingly think the show is real. It gets wacky and weird. The movie also stars Sam Rockwell, Tony Shalhoub, and Daryl Mitchell.