{"id":330758,"date":"2025-12-23T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330758\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:19:09","slug":"weaver-wants-a-galaxy-quest-directors-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/330758\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaver Wants A &#8220;Galaxy Quest&#8221; Director&#8217;s Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/weaver-wants-a-galaxy-quest-directors-cut.jpg\" data-caption=\"DreamWorks Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/weaver-wants-a-galaxy-quest-directors-cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"weaver-wants-a-galaxy-quest-directors-cut\"\/><\/a>DreamWorks Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Out doing promotional interviews for \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash,\u201d the legend that is Sigourney Weaver recently revealed there\u2019s one film on her resume that she would love to see a new director\u2019s cut of.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing in a career retrospective video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6s1ssDMUXZ4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair<\/a>, Weaver revealed that she wishes to see a director\u2019s cut of the celebrated 1999 sci-fi parody \u201cGalaxy Quest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The original is a \u201cStar Trek\u201d parody in which the cast of an old, cancelled sci-fi show about a starship crew are abducted by aliens.  These aliens have mistaken it for a documentary of real events and seek the actor\u2019s help. Weaver, Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, and Sam Rockwell starred.<\/p>\n<p>The film originally received an R rating before being recut down to a family friendly PG \u2013 resulting in several cut scenes and dubbed lines.  Weaver hopes to see that original darker version:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish they\u2019d put out a director\u2019s cut of the movie. At the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie without some of the more sophisticated scenes that [Tim] Allen was in. Because it needed a kids movie to go up against Stuart Little. Why don\u2019t they put out the movie again with [Allen] very, very strange and wonderful scenes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She calls the film a \u201clove letter to actors\u201d and said the film\u2019s co-writer Robert Gordon had a script ready for a sequel:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember Bob Godon had written a second one.  He wouldn\u2019t give it to DreamWorks because he just felt that they had missed the boat. So, we always meant to do a sequel, and then with Alan [Rickman] passing away, we just lost heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just over a quarter century on, Weaver admits she felt \u201cprivileged\u201d to work on the film and how her character Gwen DeMarco was much closer to her than Ripley.  \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d is out now, \u201cGalaxy Quest\u201d is on VOD, AMC+ &amp; Binge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DreamWorks Pictures Out doing promotional interviews for \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash,\u201d the legend that is Sigourney Weaver recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-330758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}