EdReedFan20
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Here's my pitch for a sequel: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=846890&highlight=
I have refined it since. This is my most recent rendition of it.
Essentially, years have passed since the continuation of Galaxy Quest. It ran for about 4 or 5 years and had its series finale. Enough years have passed when the studio behind the show decided it was time to reboot the franchise as a movie series with a young cast portraying the same characters. Across the gulf of space, unbeknownst to everyone, a group of radical Thermians (the species from the first movie) are trying to find the rest of their species. They were imprisoned due to an intense worship of the "historical documents". Think of them as religious extremists. We discover that Saris decimated their home planet, so my idea was that this group was ruthlessly left behind in their prison cells while the planet was being ravaged. They were presumed to have died in the assault. While trying to find the rest of their species in revenge of their treatment, they eventually find their way to Earth, where they see the new movie series being advertised. They are enraged (they're essentially hard core fans of Star Trek that will never accept the new cast). They believe that the original crew has been kidnapped and replaced through imitation by this "evil" new cast. They successfully kidnap the new cast and bring them into space. When the new cast tries to explain things to the aliens, the aliens believe they are lying and threaten them with death. Eventually the news somehow reaches the old cast. Fred's (Tony Shaloub's character) alien girlfriend Laliari recognizes the aliens and calls upon the other aliens of her species to come to Earth to help rescue the new cast. The old cast, along with the aliens from the first movie, work together again in an attempt to save the new cast. I'm still unsure how it should end, if the aliens can be reasoned with and shown that Galaxy Quest has never been real, essentially destroying all they believe in or if they become so violent they are beyond saving and must be defeated at all costs. I'm leaning towards the latter, as it would sort of mirror the first movie. In the first one, the aliens (sort of) understand the truth, but in this the new aliens would double down on their belief and hatred of their kind due to being abandoned while the planet was being attacked. Essentially this movie would be a satire of the diehard nature of sci-fi fans (a theme in the first movie), maybe touch a bit on religious extremism, and most importantly satire of (I didn't convey it much here) rampant reboots and remake in Hollywood today.
