Tim Allen remains hopeful a sequel to 1999’s sci-fi comedy “Galaxy Quest” will still go ahead even after the tragic death of co-star Alan Rickman.
The sequel came up as an idea a few years ago with the plan to bring back original director Dean Parisot and co-writer Robert Gordon. Rickman’s death a few months later brought it all to a screeching halt – especially as the script focused on the relationship between Allen and Rickman’s characters.
Allen is still holding out hope for the sequel to get off the ground someday. Speaking with EW recently, he offered an update:
“It’s a fabulous script, but it had a hiccup because the wonderful Alan Rickman passed. So it all got very sad and dark because [the script] was all about [Lazrus] and Taggart. It was all about their story. It doesn’t mean they can’t reboot the idea, and the underlying story was hysterical and fun.
I haven’t reached out to anybody in the last week, but we talk about it all the time. 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 [Rickman]’s Galaxy Quest family could step in and the idea would still work.”
Allen is optimistic the draft script can be updated though, especially as the plot revolves around light-speed space travel and thus could involve time dilation and other factors to change things up:
“[The sequel] could happen now or in five years and it doesn’t matter at all because when you travel at light speed when you come back it can be like only 20 minutes, but 20 years have passed, right? That part is wonderful for the sci-fi freak in me. But right now it’s in a holding pattern.”
Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Justin Long and Daryl Mitchell all starred in the original.
