Adam Savage and Fon Davis Reminisce About Galaxy Quest!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- While at ILM, Adam Savage and Fon Davis worked on a number of films most people would never watch twice. However, they DID participate in the making of the "best Star Trek movie ever" ... Galaxy Quest! Here's what they -- as well as their friend and colleague Grant Imahara -- did, and what it was like. (Let's just say that building in the correct scale was no small feat!)
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Matrix 2 had some of the best action of any movie ever. It is not a bad movie.
I hope I'm not breaking the rules, but I am surprise no one in the video mention the mistake relating to that piece Fon Davis is showing off.
In the Galaxy quest movie, during that joke when they are pulling out of the shipyard and they scratch the side of the ship against the wall that prop represents. That is where the mistake is, because of the angle of the ship isn't as sharp, the port warp nacelle of the Protectorate has to vanish in order for it to work.
You can see the point in the film the Nacelle magically reappears again in the show. I left a link.
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You two should hang out on camera more, that was most enjoyable 😁❤
My pet theory on why we love love LOVE 'Galaxy Quest' so much -- apart from it being a truly endearing, wonderful movie -- is that there was never a part 2, 3, 4 or 5 to potentially disappoint us. We get to love this perfect, singular story over and over again.
And Sigourney's cleavage.
"By Grabthar's Hammer.. What a savings"
I read that in Alan's voice, dripping with depressed sarcasm... R.I.P.
You beat me to it,lol,
I played Richard the third!
"By Grabthar's Hammer, Potter!"
-Severus Snape, probably.
I always get stabbed in the heart with a spoon thinking of Alan Rickman.
I need more of these two hanging out in my life.
They need to have a whole show with these two talking to model makers, making and painting their own. Maybe even an occasional contest show for model making like what was made for movie makeup.
Agreed
@@CharlesPruden I would pay to see this.
Man... I could listen to your stories involving Grant all day long... it's like the old saying: "We die twice. Once, when our bodies stop, and the final death when people stop talking about us and stop saying our names."
Never stop, and he'll never be completely gone.
I was working in the server room at ILM when they did Pearl Harbor, and I remember them wheeling the battleship through the parking lot. "What's that for?" I asked. "We're going to blow it up!" - [said with such a big grin] Everyone from the IT side of the house wanted to go watch, but we weren't allowed near. sigh.
that job had to be awesome and also kinda suck for things liek that
Hahahaha us IT people are under appreciated
"Loud bang on the slab"
Happened to be on an intern walk though when they were doing the lava tsunami shot for Congo destroying a fully foliaged crevasse miniature. Awesome.
I, on the other hand, ran out and got to be dead officers in the water for Pearl Harbor. It was a hard life doing IT for ILM!
Again, two of my favourite scifi films Galaxy Quest and Starship Troopers!
Galaxy Quest awesomely acted by the best actors, hilariously funny and a big piss take but with grenades of sadness. Crying with laughter moments later tears of sadness. Brilliant film.
Well I guess I'm rewatching Galaxy Quest tonight. That is so awesome you guys had that experience! As a lifelong Trekker, thank you for working on one of my favorite movies of all time!
Love hearing about little bits of Star Trek trivia! (and yes, galaxy quest trivia counts as Star Trek trivia)
I love that movie so much. Anyone who has ever been to a sci-fi con (or any fan con for that matter), will get the real humor in the movie. It's funny on the face of it, but it's so much more funny if you get the inside jokes.
If you haven't, you should check out the documentary they made a few years ago, "Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary". There's a lot more to the movie than just poking fun at Star Trek. It is, in every sense, a love letter to fans of sci-fi and fantasy.
"Galaxy Quest: The Inside Story Hardcover" by Matt McAllister says that Adam was responsible for the Protector scraping its nose along the side of the dock in that fantastic scene when the ship lanches.
"Best Star Trek movie ever" is from Will Wheaton on a Galaxy Quest documentary.
Never give up, never surrender. Damn the resonance cannons, full speed ahead! Such a great movie!
"The ship was only a model... This big." :) Great historical documents Team Tested!
Love listening to Adam and Fon. Definitely need to hear more from Fon.
Right?! He's amazing. We're already planning our next shoot at Fonco.
@@tested It was amazing. I'd love a little more detail on that painting technique you talked about with the pearlescent paints and panels on ships. It sounds fascinating. Thank you!
I too am a Fon of these talks!
You're a great Fon duo, very Fon'd of this, sorry, just trying to be Fonny..
But what i actually wanted to say, is yes to OP, more of this, i love the inside talks, and Galaxy Quest was indeed amazing and it's cool to see how it became this cult classic, because at the time nobody i knew heard of it.
have his model making video tapes from a local convention a long time ago. awesome guy and great storyteller, yes even more of this please!
Galaxy Quest is an extremely inconvenient film; for example, the time I was on my way to bed when my husband stopped channel flipping on GQ, about 45 minutes in. Of course I had to watch the rest; I was sleepy the next morning, but happy.
I just 'forced' my son to watch it again with me. Still just as epic. Plus this time I could point out that Gwen is Ripley in Alien (and Aliens) as I've also made him watch them the previous week :)
Yo Adam, thanks for being such an inspiration. I an aspiring mech engineer [college still] you and Jaime sparked that science interest when I was just a Wee Lad SO, appreciate you man!
He inspires me to want to get into classical sfx
7:35 - according to 'Historical Documents' the designation NTE stood for "Not The Enterprise" in case they stand up in a court and can say: "It's not the Enterprise - it says so right here!"
Adam/Fon, please do a 4 hour sit and talk please.
Noted!
My Mom just watched Galaxy Quest for the first time last night. She enjoyed it and I was able to show her some of the in-jokes and behind the scenes anecdotes. Did not know AS worked on it.
12 minutes hardly seems like enough! I could listen to these two for hours talking about their past projects.
I loved hearing about the Star Trek paint techniques, and the little details of Galaxy Quest. I could listen to more of this for hours.
The part I love, and is crazy for me. Is how Adam and Fon can look at a piece and start breaking down what someone else did. That's awesome
This is some of the best stuff you guys have put out all year. Love these memory lane strolls
I always like the Star Trek aesthetic. Particularly the Aztecing that The Next Generation really capitalized on. It feels real, like someone bolted and welded it together in a drydock, but unlike the "lived in space" shows where it's either some Han Solo-esque rogue or "doomsday was last week" scenario like BSG, they actually cared for it like you'd expect a ship with hundreds of crew to do. The exterior had that look that made you think all the NCOs were constantly cleaning the ship spotless, which is something I could totally see Riker ordering.
Part of what I loved about Star Trek was that it felt like a hopeful future where we could work with everyone and get through anything together, and the ship aesthetics also supported that.
I did really enjoy Galaxy Quest. I even take Tim Allen's line, "Never give up. Never surrender," to heart.
Also, I'm a Star Trek the Next Generation fan, so my favorite movies were ST: First Contact and ST: Insurrection.
It's amazing how much work these people put into just seconds of a shot. That's what is incredible to me. No wonder these movies cost a hundred million dollars to make.
By Grabthar's Hammer!
You will be avenged!
...what a savings.
I was just watching Galaxy Quest a week ago and it makes me tear up with joy every time without fail 🥲 a true movie for the fans and the franchises we hold most dear
Nice! I just rewatched it last week too
I need to rewatch that one, but yea Galaxy Quest is the definition of "love letter to a franchise" and could only have been made by people who truly love and respect it. I miss the days of mutual love and respect between the fans and franchise owners...
@@Dargonhuman The great moment when Tim Allen contacts the kid on Earth (who has to take the trash out) with the communicator, and tells him, "Yeah, it's all real..."
"I KNEW it!!"
It's the best Star Trek movie ever made.
@@TheRealDrJoey this is also my favorite part of the movie. reminds me of being a kid.
I wonder how many people watching Galaxy Quest realized that while the Protector does fire it's weapons, it's never once seen on screen. Not once.
Like Doctor Who. Deemphasizing guns for the kiddies?
The way I actually gasped out loud when I saw the close up of everyone in the windows. A beautiful piece for an amazing film! 1:17
Another outstanding episode, listening to two unbelievable creators reminiscing about what they truly love. My father was an emmy winning editor in the TV and movie industry his entire life, so this is great to see. Thank you guys, its always a pleasure seeing and hearing how much you truly enjoyed what you did.
Amazing! What are some of the things your father worked on?
@@tested He flew out to CA to work on set on one of the Star Trek movies ( I have to ask my mother which one), he did a movie called Dream House (I was on that set), he did SO MANY TV commercials I cant go through them all. He won his emmy for outstanding computer graphics. He did all graphics for the Super Bowl every other yr., NCAA, CBS, HBO movie opening, MTV, etc. My Grandfather owned MovieLab here in NY. My mother was a matte painter and airbrush artist. So I have the industry all over in my family. . . except for me.
@@spicydragon3881 So cool
What is the best, is watching how genuinely excited you get talking about the problem solving you had to do with your "day job" and with Mythbusters.
Love seeing Fon on the channel!
Galaxy quest is one of my favorites, and seeing you two discuss and reminisce about it is absolutely lovely :)
Thanks for another great video!
So nice to hear the story of Grant's first PCB. What a story, what a great film. Thanks.
This was brilliant conversation. I totally adore how you both bring out the most wonderful approaches from each others experiences nit just on the film but in the making. The bit about using laser cutters for the stencils in galaxy quest what a real gem in understanding how the process works. Just fascinating
Galaxy Quest !! Great movie all around. Thanks for all the cool prop work! 😎💯🔥
This movie is a masterpiece.
This is right up my street, nothing beats practical effects when they are well done.
I wasn't able to go to the show to see Galaxy Quest, so I ended up renting it as we did in the 90's :-), but boy was I surprised when I accidently fiddled with the sound track and found that there was a Thermian language track! FOR THE WHOLE MOVIE! I could not stop laughing! A very fun movie!!
I could seat for hours and hours....just listening this ILM stories!!! F...ing awesome!!
I LOVE hearing this conversations about such passionate and professional propmaking. Such a treat. Thanks for the channel, Adam!
It's so good watching these too talk about the movies they have worked on. Such great stories.
It's also amazing how many of my favourite scifi and action movies they worked on. Thanks for the awesome childhood guys.
They mention Stan Winston's son, Matt. Matt Winston also played temporal agent Daniels on Star Trek Enterprise and I think he's also in the Star Trek Online video game.
I just watched a documentary on Galaxy Quest the other day, found it on Amazon Prime, called "Never Surrender". Was quite good.
Amazing!!! all I can say is it was not long enough I could watch you guys chat for hours.. Fabalous!!!
Remember the tv show Riptide? There was a boat named the same. 20 years ago there were two guys who bought it and repair the boat in the slip next to my grandmother’s boat. It took them years and it was cool to watch them
Much love for sharing the analog history! 🙏🏽💯💖
As a parody film, Galaxy Quest turned out to be a great film!
When I used to como paint archery equipment, I used file folders, and they would dry in between uses, and became better the more I used them. The coats of paint made them impervious to the solvents after so many uses!
Galaxy Quest is a massively underrated movie. Massively.
A great pleasure to watch! I might even watch some of the movies you talked about specifically because the stories about the models piqued my interest!
Hey Adam, tysm for this channel, your work has inspired me greatly and I hope to get started in model making in Atlanta.
Hobbyists refer to that painting style with the pearlescents as Aztecing. *Fun fact: The NTE on the ship stands for Not The Enterprise.
GNDN435! I always annotated a piece of infrastructure something with this in every place I've lived!
@@PWingert1966 So exactly how many Jeffries tubes have you had??? ;-)
@@ldbarthel I can re-crystalise a Dilithium Matrix with tha' best o' Them 'Laddy and blind folded too in a transparent aluminum fish tank all I need is good bottle o' scotch tae ge' meh Started....
@@ldbarthel Izn' a Jeffres tube the best place to get ta know you junior female engineers? Isn't that why they're offset at 23.5 degrees from vertical?
@@ldbarthel Its meh cross circuitin' ta B what saved the ship Lassy! Thats got ta be done in the Jeffries tube by two people at the same time! Face -ta-face!
This video has a nugget of information that was immensely helpful to me. I am making star ship model that is white and your comments about the opalescent paint job on the Protector, got me thinking. So I applied some panel masks to a few colors and piped them into the specular channels. It worked like a charm! Looks awesome. Thank you!
I makes me think that there are probably a thousand more tricks from the Ilm Model shop that would be equally useful in 3d. I would love it if at some point, you could dive into more of this kinda thing.
More of this please. Great video. Love to hear industry effects stories
Videos with Adam talking through industry model making with others might be my favorites on this channel.
Great video. I could listen to it for hours. I was fortunate enough to be the PM for the stage shoots on GQ and Pearl Harbor. I remember holding my breadth when we had the Oklahoma on a 30 degree angle up in the air for some shots. One day when everyone was on lunch break, and I was on fire watch (we had just shot a bunch of shots of smoke coming out of the Oklahoma) and real smoke started coming out of it. Apparently heat had built up and started a real fire. I had to blast it with a fire extinguisher. Great times!
Wow, this is the most amazing comment on a TH-cam video I've ever read ! Thank you for this information 👏
@@world_production Wow. Thank you!
Wow just crazy! I would of loved to own a panel. I can not believe it just sat in the break room. This is one of my favorite movies.
Never give up! Never surrender!
That was fun to geek out and listen to you two. Thank you.
Can you guys nerd out more on ILM projects? I love it! I may medically need more of this.
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Boy, I love hearing these movie model maker stories! So, so cool!
One of my favorite movies I watch all the time in my shop while I'm working👍👍👍
You got to work on Galaxy Quest!!!!! Thats so AWESOME!!!!!!
Love that movie!!!!
Thank you for your hard work on these great films, Sirs.
Thank you for sharing!
Fantastic info! I love the behind the scenes stuff. When Star Wars came out I already was a big Trek fan (and about 13yo) and wanted to get a job at ILM making space models. To this day I still play around with detail modeling and hope someday to build a piece to show off in my work area just for fun and the pearlescent paint trick blew my mind! Definitely will incorporate somehow if I ever get to that.
Your quick touch on Space Cowboys reminded me again how much I'd love to hear you describe working on that show! Please do something about it some day!
Hey, Fon. The person who developed the specular highlighted paneling was Ron Gress when he painted the Enterprise on "Star Trek: The Motion Picture".
I he told me about his work on "STTMP" during a break when I was a P.A. at Boss Films. Ron mentioned that he used damp tissue paper "stuck" to the model surface cut into the various panel shapes then dusted with a clear of a fine metallic color in one pass. Then added/repositoned them and made another pass in another colored metallic coat.
He also briefly mentions this in one of the documentary series, "SOLAR CRISIS (1990) miniature effects" around the 4:45 mark.
He was a very cool laid back kind of a guy and was fun to work with.
I loved Galaxy Quest! I dig learning more about the behind-the-scenes.
I love hearing about the birth of the Aztec paint job for Star Trek ships. Thank you for that.
Galaxy Quest is still my favourite sci fi movie, and im an all round sci fi fan haha
Ahhh could happily listen to more. Thank you
I will never get tired of learning about the production of Galaxy Quest. It's a perfect film.
Awesome to see masters of their craft geeking out.
I really really looovve Galaxy Quest. Thank you for your part i this amazing movie 🥰👍
Adam, did you know there was a Star Trek short story called “Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited” where the original actors, while filming an episode, were transported into a parallel universe where Star Trek was real? They had to pretend they were their characters. Sound familiar? Try to find it, it’s a very funny story and much like Galaxy Quest, which came decades later.
Sounds like the exact opposite plot of John Scalzi's Redshirts.
@@beavismount I love that story!
I like stargate, when they discover there is a government sanctioned tv show that produces episodes based on their missions and uses their names.
They are told the program is in case information is leaked from a mission it will just be viewed as superfans exaggerating fan fiction, and if the program ever goes public they will already be familiar preventing mass panic.
Super meta
@@swskitso Yeah, the show gets called "Wormhole X-Treme" because the network thought having an 'x' in the title would help boost ratings. IIRC it was a kind of joke to mark the 100th episode, and got brought back for the 200th.
@@beavismount It's called "... Revisited" because it's a companion piece to an even earlier Trek story where Kirk, Spock & McCoy are accidentally transported onto the Paramount lot in the late 1960's. "Revisited" is what happens to the actors during that other story. Like "Mirror, Mirror", they swap places with their counterparts.
This is one of the most interesting videos I've seen on your channel 👍🍻🇬🇧
So fun! I'm a model builder since the early 70s. Latest thing I built though was a Space Command (Marc Zicree) lego spaceship.
Some of my favorite segments. He is so charming.
I can realy see the love those two have for movie props and making techniques, its so hearthwarming. It was very interesting to see this perspective - those are details you do not notice mostly but you would notice if they were missing and they are so nicely and cleverly designed quite often.
Galaxy quest was well designed and is one of my favourite movies - I still wish it had real TV series - we have The Orville now I suppose at least but I love the Galaxy quest ship way more - its such simple yet beautiful design!
And a brilliant design which inverted the Enterprise. For those few who aren't aware, while the Enterprise had a disk-shaped primary hull and cylindrical secondary hull that held the nacelles, the Protector has a cylindrical primary pull and the two sweeping "wings" form part of a disk that holds the nacelles.
Adam you literally just named every movie in my collection all my favorites
Fonco!! I shot three short films there. This makes me miss working with Fon and the gang.
Thanks for this, needed some happy.
"Look around, can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?"
That's called a Fonly Lathe, as in If'only I had a lathe.
No, but they have a water jet C&C, will that work?
oh my god this man is amazing. please more vids with Fon!!
I love these, it's like a family get together
Would love to see more videos like this.
We're hoping to do more with Fon! He's a very close friend of Adam and ours.
That was really cool.Fon is a cool dude. I’d love to see more of these if possible. Thanks Adam
That was awesome. I didn't know about the two models before.
I could watch them talking about ILM and model building techniques for hours.
I worked at a movie theater when this movie came out.
I had to assemble the print, then pre-screen it to make sure the print was OK.
I wasn't expecting much--the marketing was pretty bad for the film. It looked like it was going to be
very cheesy and lame/not funny.
But I was really blown away by how much fun it was, and how funny and engaging the story was AND by how well done
the visual and sound effects were
and it's still one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies.
MORE MORE MORE of just Fon and Adam talking Please
More Fon please!
I loved Space Cowboys. Which models? The shuttle? The Russian death satellite? I just so enjoy hearing about the effort that goes into making the movies more real!
Worked on it too. BG. Was a Thermian. Bout a month. Great fun and experience.
This is perfect since I just rewatched Galaxy Quest last week
One of my favorite movies of all time! Can't even say how many times I've seen it.
Lovely vibes from this series, really interesting stuff too
Listening to people who a) are knowledgeable b) love their work is awesome!