I just read the book I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy, and I was wishing he'd update it to talk about his reaction to Galaxy Quest. I wonder if Alan talked to Leonard before filming to get insight into playing Spock's alter ego. That would have been a fun conversation!
shareThe think with Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus is that Lazarus is based on Spock, Alexander Dane however is not based on Nimoy, but on Patrick Stewart instead.
Therefor I'm also curious about Stewarts opinion
Patrick Stewart said he didn't originally want to see it because he thought it would just be 2 hours of making fun of trekkies. Jonathan Frakes saw it and convinced Patrick Stewart to see it and he ended up loving it.
As far as other Trek actor reactions to it, the only other ones I remember were George Takei who liked it for how close it got to reality, especially the "managed to get your shirt off, huh?" line. And Will Wheaton who loved it and wished he could have had a cameo as a fanboy complaining about a kid being a crew member on the show.
That is just so funny. Everyone probably liked it except...you know who! The shirt-off guy!
shareFrom what I understand he quite liked it. He's even commented on the accuracy of the bathroom scene near the beginning of the film.
Shatner: I thought it was very funny, and I thought the audience that they portrayed was totally real, but the actors that they were pretending to be were totally unrecognizable. Certainly I don't know what Tim Allen was doing. He seemed to be the head of a group of actors and for the life of me I was trying to understand who he was imitating. The only one I recognized was the girl playing Nichelle Nichols.
The part about not knowing what Tim Allen was doing is obviously a joke, if you know Shatner's humor.
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I have no idea if Rickman ever met Nimoy, but according to the special features on the DVD, Tim Allen indeed met Bill Shatner, who loved the film.
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I think it would be really weird if any of the original actors wouldnt like the Galaxy Quest movie.
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Rickman's character may have been based off of Leonard Nimoy and Patrick Stewart, but personality wise he seemed more like Alec Guinness.
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shareI just think Rickman's character was based on Spock but not sure how much Nimoy was in it.
Its that man again!!
Yeah, it's hard to say. Allen is definitely Shatner, Shatner, Shatner, there's no doubt.
But Rickman was more of a mix of Nimoy and Stewart. Nimoy was never a Shakespearean actor; Stewart certainly was.
Either way, this movie is f'n brilliant.
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Dr. Lazarus was a composite of Worf and Spock. Talking to Nimoy wouldn't do him much good, since the character is significantly different from Spock. Also, Alexander Dane is considerably dissimilar to Leonard Nimoy.
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Alexander Dane is considerably dissimilar to Leonard Nimoy.
Dane was based off both Stewart and Nimoy's characters. Stewart was a Shakespearean actor and took the craft very seriously when he first took the role. But he relaxed and realized that you could both have fun and give your best professionally. In fact he considers his cast mates his befriends and credit ST for it. He was never bitter nor did his career suffer due to ST. In fact, his career benefitted from ST nor does he regret doing it. Nimoy otoh played such a stoic and reserved character that it carried over into his personal life, he carried Spock into his home which affected his relationship with his wife. And like Dane he regretted the role and was embarrassed by it initially because he was a serious actor and felt a SciFi (especially in the 60s) show was not something to be taken seriously. Of course he later came to embrace the role and his part in ST. And like Stewart, learned to take things in stride and not take life too seriously.
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Right. One thing I thought they might like to chat about is the make-up. Like how Alexander Dane wore the scales on his head all night long. And what it's like playing the alien on the crew. And playing second banana to an egomaniacal bad actor.
Both Alan and Leonard were brainy, sensitive, and funny. Plus, they were both committed to progressive politics. I think they'd have had fun talking. Leonard Nimoy was a serious person and he DID want to act in roles way beyond Spock. It was a big frustration for him, even though he did embrace Spock eventually.
He wasn't a great actor, but he wanted to be. He was in Fiddler on the Roof and a biopic of Golda Meier.
I hope they did talk. I can see them getting along great.
I looked at the title of this thread and thought it sucks and is strange how both these Star Trek actors are gone. Especially with Alan Rickman being too young to go.
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Neither were gone, or even sick, when this thread started.
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