While the real Star Trek remains off the air, the fake Star Trek is making a comeback. A TV show about the life of the fake TV show in the beloved 1999 cult Tim Allen film Galaxy Quest is in the works.
The film was originally produced by Deamworks and Paramount, joining the long list of Paramount movies that the studio’s TV division is trying to make into a series. Deadline reports that the film’s writer, Robert Gordon, has been asked to write the TV pilot. Director Dean Parisot and producer Mark Johnson are also onboard as executive producers.
Parisot and Johnson have recently reestablished themselves in the TV world, as both worked on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, notes Variety.
Galaxy Quest was a Star Trek parody that found Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, and Alan Rickman as stars of a sci-fi TV show. While the show was cancelled years ago, they wind up getting involved in a real space drama and try to save a group of aliens. The film wasn’t a huge hit, but it has gone on to earn a cult following, especially with sci-fi fans.
At this point, it’s getting hard to keep track of all the movies Paramount TV is trying to turn into shows. The studio appears to be shooting darts and seeing which one sticks. School of Rock landed at Nickelodeon, Fox has Minority Report and USA is developing Shooter. Shutter Island is in the works at HBO and Ghost is in the works.
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