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Sigourney Weaver Calls for 'Galaxy Quest' Director's Cut, Recalls Withheld Sequel Script

Her comments highlight studio edits that softened the 1999 release.

Overview

  • In a Vanity Fair career retrospective, Sigourney Weaver urged releasing a version that restores Alan Rickman’s “strange and wonderful” scenes cut before the film’s debut.
  • She said DreamWorks removed “more sophisticated” material to position the movie as a family offering against Stuart Little.
  • Weaver recounted that co-writer Bob Gordon finished a sequel script but refused to give it to DreamWorks.
  • She added that momentum for a sequel faded after Rickman’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2016.
  • Producer Mark Johnson told Deadline earlier this year that a Galaxy Quest TV series is being written for CBS Studios.