{"id":363159,"date":"2025-12-22T06:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363159\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:02:07","slug":"sigourney-weaver-on-galaxy-quest-directors-cut-proposed-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363159\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver On ‘Galaxy Quest’ Director’s Cut, Proposed Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhile breaking down her career timeline, Sigourney Weaver<\/a> reflected on 1999\u2019s satirical sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest<\/a> and how she wishes the cult favorite had stuck to its initial R-rated guns (or, rather, space lasers).<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a video interview with Vanity Fair<\/a>, the Alien star said she related more to her character Gwen, a has-been actress who resented her objectification in the movie\u2019s bygone space soap opera series, than the steely Ripley in the 1979 Ridley Scott classic.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wanted to play a young woman in that world of stardom, who wants so much to be a star and who, because she\u2019s beautiful and bosomy and blonde, no one takes very seriously \u2014 not even the commander. And I felt great compassion and sisterhood with Gwen and Tawny [the fictional character she plays in the world of Galaxy Quest].\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdding that she was \u201cfortunate\u201d to have worked with an \u201camazing group\u201d of co-stars including Tim Allen, Tony Shalhoub and Alan Rickman<\/a>, the Avatar actress said, \u201cI wish they put out a director\u2019s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks<\/a> decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan was in because it needed a kids\u2019 movie to go up against [Columbia Pictures\u2019] Stuart Little. And why they don\u2019t put out the movie again with more of his very, very strange and wonderful scenes?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOf the long-discussed sequel that never came to pass, Weaver said, \u201c[Co-writer] Bob Gordon had written a second one, and he wouldn\u2019t give it to DreamWorks because he just felt they\u2019d missed the boat on ours. And so we always meant to do a sequel, and then with Alan passing away, we just lost heart. But it was a great privilege to do this love letter to actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by Dean Parisot, the parody and loving homage to series like Star Trek centers on a group of alumni of a space TV show who are unwittingly drawn into an intergalactic conflict by aliens who believe their imaginary series to be a depiction of real life.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough sequel discussions have circulated prior to and following Rickman\u2019s death as a result of pancreatic cancer in 2016, potential follow-ups have since stalled. However, OG film producer Mark Johnson told Deadline earlier this year that a Galaxy Quest TV series is currently being written for CBS Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While breaking down her career timeline, Sigourney Weaver reflected on 1999\u2019s satirical sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest and how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[171743,35731,88,176297,206,89058],"class_list":{"0":"post-363159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alan-rickman","9":"tag-dreamworks","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-galaxy-quest","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-sigourney-weaver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}