Sigourney Weaver Expresses Desire for a Director’s Cut of ‘Galaxy Quest’ and Shares Memories of a Unmade Sequel
In a recent discussion about her career, Sigourney Weaver expressed her fondness for the 1999 cult classic Galaxy Quest, revealing her desire for the film to have retained its original R-rated style.
In a video interview with Vanity Fair, Weaver reflected on her role as Gwen, a former actress disillusioned by her past in a fictional space soap opera. She noted a deeper connection to Gwen than to Ripley, her iconic character from the 1979 film Alien.
Weaver spoke highly of her co-stars, including Tim Allen, Tony Shalhoub, and the late Alan Rickman, expressing, “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, [DreamWorks] decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against [Columbia Pictures’] Stuart Little. And why they don’t put out the movie again with more of his very, very strange and wonderful scenes?”
When discussing a possible sequel that never materialized, Weaver revealed that co-writer Bob Gordon had crafted a script for a follow-up but hesitated to present it to DreamWorks, feeling they had overlooked the opportunity with the original film. She added, “We always meant to do a sequel, and then with Alan passing away, we just lost heart. But it was a great privilege to do this love letter to actors.”
Directed by Dean Parisot, Galaxy Quest is a parody and homage to series like Star Trek. The film follows a group of former cast members from a space television show who become unexpectedly embroiled in an intergalactic conflict after aliens mistake their fictional series for reality.
