Despite an unhappy parting, Johnson recalls that Ramis did reach out to him after seeing Galaxy Quest in theaters. “The first thing I said to Dean was that Lieutenant Tawny Madison had to be blonde, and she had to have big boobs,” Weaver says with a laugh. “And that was exactly the case here.”, Pyle initially wasn’t supposed to have a romantic interest in Fred Kwan (Shalhoub), but that evolved as the creatives realized Weaver had the only other female role in the main cast. Yet the film, released 20 years ago on Dec. 25, 1999, did not make an immediate splash. A daily briefing on what matters (and what's interesting) in Hollywood. Allen had to fight his instincts as a comic in order to remain present. Of course you’re doing it!’”, When Johnson and Parisot met with DreamWorks, it took the endorsement of Johnson and the passion of both men to sell the executives on the unfamiliar director. I saw the potential for humor in the concept of actors in space," Johnson tells THR. For Pyle, Galaxy Quest came just as she had moved from New York to Los Angeles, ... “When I got [to the audition], they showed me a video of Jed Rees … This was a very sophisticated picture, and they could have had a wider audience with the more adult-take on the Star Trek of it.”. | Cookie Settings, Twenty years after the meta sci-fi movie hit theaters, director Dean Parisot and stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Justin Long look back at censored scenes, and reveal the apology Jeffrey Katzenberg issued over the film's lackluster marketing: "They didn’t seem particularly interested in what we were doing.". “To tell you the truth, I didn’t really like the idea. Yes, I want to receive emails from The Hollywood Reporter about the latest news, products and events that they feel might be of interest to me. “It ended up that I got to do the whole rest of the film with the cast, which was so exciting for me at that stage of my career,” Pyle says. “I was joking around with everyone in between takes and I saw Spielberg talking with one of the producers at the water cooler,” Mitchell says. When Mitchell was approached for the role of ship’s pilot Tommy Webber, he considered it his sophomore year in the school of Dean Parisot. “I’d heard he was high the entire time, and whether it was true or not, we used that as a jumping-off point for Fred Kwan,” Shalhoub says. “What helped me prepare was a documentary that Dean gave called Trekkies," says Long. “He doesn’t want to commit, but my character’s clock is ticking,” Weaver says. So, they chose this one and started making cuts to the film.”. “I was constantly pacing and drinking coffee to try to get crazy and make myself insanely scared,” Rockwell says. “I think of these guys and Sigourney all the time.”. “Most films fall off during the second weekend and we were seeing Galaxy Quest climb in its second weekend and climb again during its third weekend,” Parisot says. I’m sorry.’”, Weaver recalls Allen going to Australia to promote the film, but otherwise there was no major publicity for the Christmas ’99 release. Shalhoub had heard that Rockwell was still considering the role, and soon after the meeting, he got a call confirming that Rockwell was taking the part. “But after Alan Rickman passed, we didn’t know what to do with the story.”, “I know that they were talking about shooting dates and Sam told me Alan was on board, but he was going to have to miss the first episode,” Long recalls. The studio hired Ghostbusters star Ramis to direct. “I had no idea until I was told.”, Colantoni recalls the non-starter sequel limited series that involved a storyline with younger Thermians. Lines like that helped reinforce the idea that Fred was just a little off in the head.”, Shalhoub also recalls the Grabthar’s hammer moment between Alan Rickman’s Dr. Lazarus and Patrick Breen’s Quelleck, citing it as a standout moment for Parisot’s direction. "I got so many great insights into that deep fanatical love that people have for these shows.”.

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