Sigourney Weaver is currently doing press for James Cameron‘s ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash‘, and during a retrospective video for Vanity Fair, she revealed that she would love to see a director’s cut of her 1999 sci-fi parody film to come out.
Galaxy Quest was initially seen as a parody of Star Trek, and it revolves around a group of actors who starred on a cancelled sci-fi series. Things turn chaotic when they are kidnapped by aliens who saw the series and thought it was a documentary. Galaxy Quest also stars Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, and Sam Rockwell.
Directed by Dean Parisot, the 1999 film received an R rating from the MPAA, prompting the creatives to make some cuts and dub over a few lines to make it family-friendly.
Weaver wants the audience to see a cut of Galaxy Quest before the changes were made, calling the film a “love letter to actors.” She also added that she wishes that “they’d put out a director’s cut of the movie. At the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie without some of the more sophisticated scenes that [Tim] Allen was in. Because it needed a kids movie to go up against Stuart Little. Why don’t they put out the movie again with [Allen] very, very strange and wonderful scenes?”
Galaxy Quest is currently available to stream on AMC+.