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Space Goddess Galaxina gives Father Geek the lowdown on Dreamwork's GALAXY QUEST
Our beautiful dream spy on deep cover duty at Dreamworks has sent Father Geek a coded message containing the following information. Good work Galaxina!
Filming is underway on DreamWorks Pictures’ science fiction comedy
adventure "Galaxy Quest," starring Tim Allen , three-time Oscar® nominee Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman ("Die Hard," "Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves"). Principal photography began today, Monday, April 19th, in
Los Angeles, under the direction of Dean Parisot ("Home Fries").
Joining the main cast are Tony Shalhoub ("Men in Black," "Big Night"),
Daryl Mitchell "10 Things I Hate About
You"), Enrico Colantoni and Sam Rockwell (Woody
Allen’s "Celebrity").
Academy Award® winner Mark Johnson ("Rain Man") and Charles Newirth
("Forrest Gump") are producing the film from a screenplay by David
Howard and Robert Gordon. The executive producer is Elizabeth
Cantillon, with Suzann Ellis and Sona Gourgouris serving as
co-producers.
"Galaxy Quest" follows the adventures of five people who, for four
years, donned their uniforms and set out on thrilling and often
dangerous missions in space—then the series was canceled. Twenty
years later, the five stars of the classic ‘70s series "Galaxy Quest"
are still in costume, making appearances at science fiction
conventions for legions of die-hard fans—but some of those fans are a
little more far out than the actors could ever have imagined. A group
of aliens who have mistaken the television transmissions for
"historical documents" arrive at a convention and whisk "Captain Peter
Quincy Taggart" (Tim Allen) and his "crew" into space to help them in
their all-too-real war against a deadly adversary.
The behind the scenes team includes visual effects from the
Oscar®-winning team from Industrial Light & Magic, under the
supervision of Stefen Fangmeier ("Twister," "Small Soldiers") and Bill
George ("Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace"). Special
animatronic and creature effects will be handled by multiple Academy
Award® winner Stan Winston ("Jurassic Park"). The director of
photography is Jerzy Zielinski ("Powder"); the production designer is
Linda DeScenna ("Patch Adams"); the costume designer is two-time
Oscar®-winner Albert Wolsky ("Bugsy," "All That Jazz"); and the editor
is Don Zimmerman ("Patch Adams," "Liar, Liar").
"Galaxy Quest" is being filmed on five soundstages at Warner
Hollywood Studios, as well as on locations in and around Los Angeles,
and in Goblin Valley, Utah.
Seductively yours,
Galaxina
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i'm super impressed with the F/X crew that they've assembled for this trek...and I really like Rickman and Weaver...but *breathes a sigh of disbelief*..Tim Allen? Who's lame casting idea was that? I'm disappointed that they would choose Allen to star in what could be a really good sci-fi comedy. I just see him being the downfall of this picture. You've all been warned. Allen will be the death of this. Unless of course they're planning on just using his voice ala Toy Story and animating him. now that would a decent move.
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If you're looking for someone to play an over-the-top blowhard buffon, Tim is your man. But seriously, folks, it could work. I mean, the Powers That Be hired a lot of good actors and F/X guys, it's kinda hard to believe they would just toss the lead part to some "name" actor especially when, lets face it, he doesn't really have a "name". I guess it comes down to how good Tim Allen's William Shatner impression is. Also, am I wrong or was this book written by the guy who played Lando on Babylon 5?
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Comedy sci-fi has allways sucked, Tim Allen!?!! I've a bad feeling about this!
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I agree that Tim Allen has the overblown buffon Shatner thing down pat - both are under the (or in Shatner's case "was") impression they are huge stars because of a tv show that is mostly good due to the supporting cast (read: Pat Richardson - a true actress) - now contrast that with Shatner and Nimoy - start to make sense? We all know Weaver can do comedy (But in Ghostbusters she was the straight arrow to Murray & co., I don't know if she can do straight-on comedy) and the effects team sounds awesome!
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Now, the natural question that springs to mind is: Where is McCauly Caulkin(sp?) in all this mess?
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Oh my god does this sound lame. Im getting more and more discouraged with DreamWorks. I thought they would be the studio to make original good movies since they are the only studio headed by a real filmmaker, but its obvious they just wanna churn out the same old crap that every other studio shovels us.
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But, he's right. I mean, When they announced Dreamworks, didn't they say they intended themselves to be some sort of alternative to the shit-ass studios--seems to me like all they've done is try to become exactly like them. The Peacemaker? Are you friggin kidding me? On the other hand, this movie doesn't sound half bad, but the genre is difficult.
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I will say that I do not have any faith in this movies coming from that director Dean Parisot. He made Home fries and I just could not stand that movie. I thought it(Home Fries) might be a really good movie but then after watching it I felt betrayed. So if he is directoring this movie I do not have high hopes for it.
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Who likes the sound of this. Maybe its because I had a similar idea a few years back (when I heard about that god-awful Mom and Dad Saved the World movie). And to the person who said "can we say Jungle 2 Jungle sucked"- well many people have made bad movies. Just because Joel Schumacher fucked up with Batman doesnt' make him a crappy director (look at Flatliners, Falling Down, or The Lost Boys). Sometimes people made duds. Besides, just the shear thought of Rickman in a "spock" type roll makes me giggle in fanboy hysterics. Just roll with it.
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I can't remember specifics... but I swear that this idea (or something remarkably similar - where aliens take TV shows as true "history") was done on either the Twilight Zone (the one from the mid 80's) or Amazing Stories? Am I crazy or does anyone else remember an episode like this?
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that would take some impressive special effects to film parts of a [fake] TV series from the 70's with Tim Allen, Sigurney Weaver and Alan Rickman to be used in a movie in 1999. Or are they planning on lifting 20 year old photos from these actors like they did with Clint Eastwood in "In the line of Fire"...besides, wasnt Galaxy Quest a video game for the Commodore 64 (or something cheesy like that?) All in all, I like these three actors and I'll give the movie a shot (even though the concept sounds REALLY stupid!)
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If he was I can see why he left. This film sounds a lot like Mars Attacks ( remember that one) Tim Allen is circling the drain. Home Improvement is getting the axe, and Jungle 2 Jungle and Richer and Poorer sunk like a floating lawnmower! AR! AR! AR! (or whatever that growl he does!)
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Stephen Furst played Vir on Babylon 5. It's true, he did write and direct a movie called "Magic Kid II" back in 1994 but according to IMDB, the writing credits for "Galaxy Quest" are Robert Gordon and David Howard. Robert Gordon has only wrote "Addicted to Love" and David Howard hasn't written anything except "Galaxy Quest". I'm starting to get worried.- McK
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Just last year a science fiction novel by Peter (Babylon 5's Londo) Jurasik was published that was built around this very same premise as the plot for this Tim Allen turkey in the making. An actor on a sci-fi TV show is abducted by space aliens who've mistaken the actor for the character he protrays and recruit him to help them overcome some sort of interstellar obstacle. Plus there was this TV movie/series pilot a few years back from the producers of Hercules and Xena about a 50s TV actor on a Flash Gordon like show who is (you guessed it!) whisked off to a strange and alien world to help its people. I doubt if there's a single, solitary molecule of originality to this shit heap of an Allen movie. And let's not forget Edgar Rice Burroughs in all of this. His John Carter of Mars books are the grandfather of an Earthman suddenly finding himself a visitor on another world and fighting to survive and save his new home from evil.
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Interesting report, but am I the only one who thinks this came straight out of the studio promotional materials? I'm not saying the spy is a studio stooge trying to drum up word of mouth about the project (though that occurred to me), but the description seems a little too exact in the naming of the cast and production staff (even naming their credits and number of Oscar nominations), and the synopsis is pretty pat. Then again, maybe the spy is just a really precise writer. At any rate, to those of you who swear you've seen this plot before: you have! And you don't have to strain your brains to discover that this movie is actually THE THREE AMIGOS with "Mexico" changed to "Outer Space" and the time changed to the present day.
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was on an episode of Tiny Toons when Plucky duck made himself to be this super stud and was abducted to save a palent and the rest of the tiny toons had to go in Duck Dodger's space ship to save him...it was a really cute send up of Duck Dodgers and Star Wars...but jeez I don't know about this movie...I just don't see Tim Allen as the part...Maybe Chevy Chase or Bill Murry or Dan Ankroyd of Jim Bulshi
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Suh-weeeeeeeeet
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or Voom, or something... Anyway that's the name of the TV pilot/Movie everyone is talkin about. It guest starred Nichelle Nichols as this Priestess from the planet "Pangea" (Yes I know, Pangea WASN't a planet...). It was good in a "b" movie sort of way. It played a little like a "Clean" Barbarella. Although to succeed the main character had to de-flower this intergalactic Psi-sorceress. Anyway, OLD plot, interesting cast (I agree that Tim Allen can pull off the buffon part *perfectly*, and Allen Rickman has yet to dissapoint me). Dreamworks is pure garbage, so if this sucks, I wont be surprised...
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Um... I mean, I agree with you... Sorry, I guess I'm still getting used to having similar opinions to you... *Ugh* I feel ill...
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I think Lane and L'Auteur should hook up. Maybe have kids.
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Okay, first, are the first several posters who said "Dreamworks=junk" on CRACK?! Dreamworks is great! So they had a few uninteresting films like Small Soldiers and to higher degree Paulie. Just because Warner Bros. is doing better for making Matrix, it doesn't mean Dreamworks is suddenly bad.
As for this film, yes this is definately CAPTAIN ZOOM! But I didn't know the Shatner character was to have a cast taken with him. Is Sigourney Weaver a Grace Lee Whitney-style former costar? Is Alan Rickman going to be a Ming the Merciless style character or a Leonard Nemoy costar? If it's the former, the filmmakers better learn what NOT to do by watching Jon Lovitz in "Mom and Dad Save the World!" Otherwise, this thing sounds COOOOL! -
Okay so sci-fi comedies have traditionally been a serious bomb, but hey, maybe this could be the exception! ;) (I'm the eternal optimist... ;) Anyhow I liked the Three Amigos, I think that this could be funny, not that original, but funny... The problem with a comedy on this type of a message board, is that you really can't get a feel for how good it will be, until the entire film is made and you go and see it. Heck, Mars Attacks sounded kinda funny, but it was hideous. The only funny parts they showed in the trailers, but the rest was filler...
"Would you say I have a plethora of Bad Sci-fi Comedy movies?"
Best regards, Ray
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Especially since it was the first movie I saw after ID4 (*shudder*). Besides Tom Jones proved that he is a better Action Hero than Ahnuldt, Staboner, KeaNOtalent, and Will "I am living on borrowed time" Smith... COMBINED!
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Sounds like they're spending a lot of money, so it must be good right? right? Probably too soon to tell ( has anyone seen the script online? ). I am not opposed to the idea of sci- fi/comedy but throwing money at ILM will not make it funny.(Mars Attacks was kinda quirky, but not really funny) I hope this goes well, but sci-fi fans are notorious for being overly-serious, as evidenced by the previous remarks. Take it for what it is, even if it is shit.
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It will go a little something like this...
Allen and Co. are abducted and whisked away to help in some intergalactic war where the evil, vile, slimy (insert weird ass race here) are attempting to conquer the peaceful world of (insert not-so-weird name here) so that they can continue their contemptible existence. Allen and crew, now experiencing feelings of old age, see this opportunity as a chance to rekindle some of their long-since-gone youth. This happens after the old geezers(and geezerettes) bicker nervously at the prospect of actually facing war when they know shit about ray guns and huge star fleets and disintegration pulse rifles and the likes. Just when they're about to ante up and come straight about the real truth of their televised space exploits, Allen, the father figure that he is, delivers a moving Braveheart-esque speech that invigorates the old crew. He puts a comedic spin on things by saying something like, "well, look at it this way: we can always use this experience as material for a reunion show." Sucking in their lard, combing hair over baldness, they cheer triumphantly. Of course, the nice guy aliens are impressed by the gung-ho go-get-'em attitude of the crew and announce their intentions of following them to their deaths(which, of course won't happen now that THEY'RE here). A series of skirmishes occur where Allen uses old episodes as battle strategies. Everything seems hunky fucking dorey until the evil aliens learn of the true nature of these new heroes and threatens to spill the proverbial beans to the good aliens. Then Allen and crew must decide whether to tell their new friends the truth or keep up this fascade and hope for the best. Of course, the good aliens find out which follows another Braveheartish speech from Allen to the slightly perturbed aliens. Then, probably the aliens will agree to keep them on and yadda yadda yadda, more battles, blah blah blah, the time will come for Allen and group to return to Earth, and so on and so forth... -
Harold Ramis was originally supposed to direct this...not Brian De Palma (he is doing Disney's Mission To Mars)...I think Ramis left because of troubles with dreamworks over powering his casting choice for the lead....He wanted Alec Baldwin for the lead...but Dreamworks supposedly wanted a star was more bankable...so we get Tim Allen...I know baldwin hasn't been the biggest box office draw...but he is a hell of a good actor...and he can do comedy like knowbodies business....he was funny as shit on Saturday Night Live...and he looks to be good in the upcoming Outside Providence...I think he was the better choice...He even has that classic type of hero look...when tim allen was cast...my interest kinda sunk...I have nothing against Tim Allen....He just doesn't do it for me.
P.S. The guy who played Captain Zoom was also in Ed Wood(great film). He was the actor that the church group brought in to play the leading man without Ed's consent. Just a little tid bit incase anybody didn't know. -
Dear Galaxina,
I love your writing - maybe some of these posters are just so used to sloppy grammar, spelling, etc. that they must believe that you're a studio flack -
Naw, I'll wager that you're actually a tech writer - yes? (If so, I may know of a cushy gig...)
BTW, where exactly IS "Goblin Valley" in Utah? Sounds like it's worth a visit!
Peace out - -
Ooops - I should have used this subject to ask about Goblin Valley - for some reason I'm intrigued by this!
Again, thanks - -
it's 2008. I know it is. Did I get hit by a car?
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