I have a certain affinity for Galaxy Quest for a few reasons.  First it’s comedic (and somewhat sobering) take on the waning days of a science fiction franchise  is unparallelled. How can you not love Sam Rockwell’s Crewman #6?  And poor Alan Rickman, a classicaly trained actor so typecast that all he’s left with are grand openings of discount electronic retailers?  Or how about Sigourney Weaver playing compeltely against the strong sci-fi chick that she pioneered with the Alien franchise.  And up until JJ Abrams’ Star Trek in 2009 I contended that it was the best … Star Trek film made.

This tidbit of an R-rated Galaxy Quest came in a round about way in an interview over at Collider with John Carter producer Lindsey Collins who said:

We had lunch with Sigourney [Weaver] who was telling us that there actually used to be an R-rated version of that movie which was awesome. It was the director’s cut and it was R-rated and everybody was swearing and there were sex scenes, and the whole thing. They didn’t know what to do with it, so they had to re-edit the whole thing and made it what it is today. We were like, ‘How do we get our hands on the R-rated version of Galaxy Quest?’ She said ‘I don’t know!’ and we were like, ‘Come on, Sigourney!’

FRAK ME.  I would do unmentionable and illicit things to see this version. C’mon Hollywood, even though you just gave us a Blu-Ray release … this would be well worth double dipping for.

Credit: [Collider]