Hit comedy sci-fi film Galaxy Quest is on its way to being made into a television series.

The 1999 cult classic starred Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Tim Allen in a comical twist on Star Trek.

Set on board an intergalactic spaceship, the film followed the cast of a fictional space drama that aliens mistakenly believed to be a documentary and have modelled their society upon.

The cast are then teleported by the Thermians, who are aliens that must be saved from evil before they can allow the humans to return to earth.

Robert Gordon, the writer of the original film, will also write the television adaptation and will work alongside Dean Parisot as the director and Breaking Bad’s Mark Johnson as the producer.

The show is currently in the works at Paramount Television but the pilot date has not yet been announced.