By 2015, "Galaxy Quest" had firmly cemented its place in popular culture, and interested parties started priming the pump for another go 'round. The idea was actually to create a streaming series as a follow-up to the original film, with Entertainment Weekly reporting that Amazon Studios had begun development on the project in conjunction with Paramount. The show was even greenlit directly to series, suggesting that it was at one point a sure thing. These plans were short-lived, however. Tragically, in January of 2016, "Galaxy Quest" star Alan Rickman died at age 69 from pancreatic cancer. Sam Rockwell saw this, along with Tim Allen's difficult-to-parse availability, as a death knell for the project.
Then, in 2017, Deadline reported that Amazon was still developing the series, with Paul Scheer as its head writer. This incarnation was then paused for what was initially supposed to be a year, reportedly the result of Paramount TV president Amy Powell's exit from her post. Word of a potential sequel eventually resurfaced in January of 2021, when Tim Allen stated that a new entry in the series was effectively in limbo. "We talk about it all the time," Allen told EW. "There is constantly a little flicker of a butane torch that we could reboot it with." Translation: never give up. Never surrender.
