Earlier this month a few of the cast members from the 1999 cult comedy Galaxy Quest got together and told MTV that they were interested in making a sequel. Now, we have word that it’s actually happening, but not in the medium you may expect.
Galaxy Quest was a great satire of science fiction TV shows like Star Trek, and would fit well on the small screen. It’s even easy to see how a film sequel could play out. But, it looks like neither of those things are happening, as Comic Book Resources reports that a Galaxy Quest sequel will move forward as a comic book instead.
IDW Publishing will put out the book, written by Ghostbusters and Shooting Star comics writer Erik Burnham and art from Nacno Arranz.
Despite the subtitle on the cover, the series will just be called “Galaxy Quest” and tie into the narrative of the film, while including all the characters from the movie. Burnham went on to elaborate on the plans by saying:
“Well, at the end of their movie, Tim Allen’s character, Jason, used the Omega 13 device to rewind time 13 seconds and undo the catastrophic death of his crew. (Um… sorry for the 15 year-old spoilers!) Messing with time. Maybe that affected more than the ship. If it was more widespread, sure, most folks would just have a powerful case of deja vu. But what if it changed something else? That’s what we’re starting with. They’re the reason a new race — called the Drythans — seek them out and say, ‘You screwed something up. Fix it.’
Tom Waltz and I were talking one day and, mid-sentence, he remembers that IDW was going to be doing another “Galaxy Quest” comic and he thought it’d be fun if I pitched for it. “Do something really ‘Star Trekky,’” is what he suggested when I asked what he was looking for.
So I wrote up a pitch — and this is almost two years ago! — and got it to Tom. A few months after that, I said “Hey, Tom — did anything ever happen with that pitch?” And he says, in his way, “Oh yeah, dude! … It, uh, well, it got turned down.” When I asked why, he says: ‘It was too ’Star Trekky.’
I laughed loud enough to wake my poor dog.
Anyway, IDW and the licensor both liked the pitch, they just wanted me to make some changes. Once that was done, voila, we were go.”
The new Galaxy Quest series will be an on-going run beginning in early 2015.
Originally published August 21, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
