Galaxy Quest Series In Works At Paramount Television
Cult sci-fi comedy feature Galaxy Quest is headed to television. Ive learned that Paramount Television is in the process of putting together a TV series project based on the 1999 DreamWorks movie about the cast of a long cancelled space TV show who become reluctant real space heroes when they are accidentally transported to a spaceship and tasked with saving an alien nation.
Like with other library movies, which Paramount is mining for TV series, Galaxy Quest is being adapted with key auspices from the film on board. That includes the features writer, Robert Gordon who is expected to pen the TV version director, Dean Parisot, and producer Mark Johnson (Breaking Bad). The three are expected to executive produce the potential series along with Johnsons Gran Via Prods. partner Melissa Bernstein. Paramount TV declined comment.
Galaxy Quest, a sendup of classic TV series Star Trek, starred Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell and Enrico Colantoni and introduced young Justin Long in his feature debut. The film has been embraced by sci-fi fans, quickly achieving a cult status.
Other movie titles from the Paramount catalog that the studios TV division is turning into series with the original auspices include straight-to-series comedy School Of Rock at Nickelodeon, with the films director Richard Linklater and producer Scott Rudin; drama Shooter, which has a pilot order at USA, with the movies star Mark Wahlberg producing; as well as a Shutter Island series for HBO with Martin Scorsese that is among Pat TVs projects in development. Additionally, Paramount TV is co-producing the Minority Report Fox pilot, which is considered likely to go to series.
Gordon, whose credits also include Men in Black II, is repped by ICM Partners.
