According to Deadline, Paramount Television Studios is working on a Galaxy Quest TV series based on the 1999 sci-fi comedy movie from DreamWorks. The series will be released on Paramount+ and is executive produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie) through Gran Via Productions.
There is currently no known writer or concept for the series; representatives for Paramount TV Studios and Paramount+ have declined to comment.
Paramount TV Studios has been trying to develop a Galaxy Quest TV series for the past eight years. There had originally been an idea to continue the film with the same cast in the series. Johnson was previously set to work with the movie’s writer, Robert Gordon (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Addicted to Love), and director, Dean Parisot (Red 2, Home Fries), in creating the series for Amazon in 2015. The project fell through after the death of one of the stars of the film and series, Alan Rickman (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Sense and Sensibility), in 2016.
There had also been another iteration of the project set to be written by Paul Scheer (The League, Human Giant), and one from writer Georgia Pritchett (Succession, The Shrink Next Door) and Simon Pegg (Paul, Hot Fuzz).
Galaxy Quest was released on December 25, 1999 and, along with Rickman, starred Tim Allen (The Santa Clause, Home Improvement), Rainn Wilson (The Office, The Meg), Daryl Mitchell (Toothless, The Country Bears), Justin Long (F is For Family, New Girl), Tony Shalhoub (Monk, Wings), Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, See How They Run), Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Avatar: The Way of Water), Enrico Colantoni (Person of Interest, Veronica Mars), Missi Pyle (Two and a Half Men, The Wedding Bells), Robin Sachs (Megalodon, Vampire Circus), Patrick Breen (Just a Kiss, The Bleeding House), Jess Rees (NCIS, 21 Jump Street), and Sam Lloyd (Cougar Town, Scrubs).