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.