Well folks, today I've been poking around trying to find out what's going on with some alleged DREAMWORKS projects... The first was a rumored GREMLINS 3 project... Well, the 'word' had it that DREAMWORKS was set to move forward on this project... Ummm... Not so far as I can determine. Joe Dante is moving forward with a different project right now, and while AMBLIN was involved with the GREMLINS franchise, I believe that the project would have to be produced in partnership with Warner Bros. And my people at WARNERS haven't heard a peep about the project, other than the quite lucrative settlement Warners recently got from the makers of FURBIES. And over at DREAMWORKS... there was no word on the project as well. So until one of my folks speaks up... don't believe anything on that project.
SO that brings me to GALAXY QUEST, well my friends here is the latest on that project...
Here's some more grape juice from the Hollywood Grapevine.
Anyway, as a lot of your readers have commented, Galaxy Quest is a pretty lame title. The people at Dreamworks think so too. They wanted to use the original title, "Captain Starshine" but apparently there has been some legal glitch tied to it. I think Ramis will come up with a new title if the Captain Starshine title doesn't get resolved.
Also...I hear that Jim Carrey, Mel Gibson, Steve Martin and Tim Allan are all vying for the lead role. Rumor has it that Geena Davis is being considered for the lead female role.
