A TV sequence model of Galaxy Quest is reportedly being developed by nü-Star Trek’s Simon Pegg and Succession author Georgia Pritchett. The information, as reported by the British Comedy Guide, was let slip in a Times interview Pritchett was giving to advertise her new sequence. Pritchett, who has written for Veep and The Thick Of It, is the creator of Apple TV’s The Shrink Next Door starring Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd.

Galaxy Quest was a reasonably profitable 1999 movie that grew to become a cult comedy (widespread sufficient for its personal retrospective documentary) lengthy after it left cinemas. The movie places a sci-fi twist on the Three Amigos plot, with a bunch of aliens believing that the TV sequence they’ve by chance began watching was actual. They decide up the solid, whereas at a sci-fi conference, and whisk them right into a real-life battle past the celebs.

The movie liked to poke at each the tropes of the sequence in addition to Star Trek’s behind-the-scenes legends, with an unlovable, egomaniacal actor within the lead position. Most memorable was the late Alan Rickman’s flip as a Nimoy-esque actor who struggled with the profile his greatest position afforded him. Sigorney Weaver, in the meantime, subverted her repute as sci-fi’s greatest badass to play the ditzy Gwen DeMarco.

This shouldn’t be the primary time a Galaxy Quest adaptation has been within the works, with Amazon initially organising plans again in 2015. Unfortunately, the loss of life of Alan Rickman scuppered the unique thought, after which in 2017, Paul Sheer was tapped to jot down a model of the sequence, however little extra was heard about since. 

Pritchett’s revelation was gentle on any element and definitely it’s not clear how a lot want there’s for a Galaxy Quest TV sequence. Certainly, each Pritchett and Pegg have written a variety of movie and TV sequence, with Pegg co-writing the newest Trek film, Beyond. The one factor we’d like to know is that if the present would exist as a recovered model of the basic sequence, or take the crew (of actors) on yet one more mission into area that they have been completely unprepared for.