Star Trek XI -- back on the drawing board?
I am enough of a Trekkie and a completist that I made a point of getting all ten Star Trek movies on DVD. The last three films all came out in the past year, after I started this blog, and I even posted some comments on First Contact (1996) and Insurrection (1998) when those discs came out. But Nemesis (2002) was such a lame disappointment that, even though I got the disc, I never felt motivated to write it up. I say let the franchise rest in peace.
With that in mind, I'm not sure how to react to this Variety item:
MAY 1 UPDATE: It won't be Kirk and Spock, says Abrams.
With that in mind, I'm not sure how to react to this Variety item:
Paramount is breathing life into its "Star Trek" franchise by setting "Mission: Impossible III" helmer J.J. Abrams to produce and direct the 11th "Trek" feature, aiming for a 2008 release.So does this mean Rick Berman is no longer involved? That alone could be promising. So would an emphasis on character development over battle scenes. And the fact that they would presumably have to hire brand-new actors to play younger versions of the original 1960s cast means they won't have to tailor the story to suit the original actors' vanities. But will anyone care about the characters if they are played by other people? And let's not even think about the probable continuity errors, etc.
Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk, Abrams' producing team from "Lost," also will produce the yet-to-be-titled feature.
Project, to be penned by Abrams and "MI3" scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, will center on the early days of seminal "Trek" characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer space mission. . . .
Decision to relaunch "Star Trek" comes less than a year after UPN pulled the plug on "Star Trek: Enterprise" amid dismal ratings following a four-season run and four years after "Star Trek: Nemesis" turned in the worst performance of the 10 films with $43 million domestic. . . .
Under Sherry Lansing's tenure, Rick Berman had been teamed several years ago with Jordan Kerner and Kerry McCluggage to develop an 11th feature set in the early days of Starfleet Academy.
MAY 1 UPDATE: It won't be Kirk and Spock, says Abrams.
posted by Peter T Chattaway at 11:28 PM
6 Comments:
I would much rather see a DS9 or an Enterprise movie over a pre-OST film. Kirk, as a character, has gotten too stale for my tastes. (Although Shatner can't seem to keep him dead...)
It will be impossible to satisfy all the trekkies. The amount of ficton, fan and otherwise around Star Trek means that the film will manage to get just about all the details wrong and just generally disugest the audience it is trying to reach out to. IMHO
I read on some STNG site that the new Star Trek XI movie has cast Matt Damon as young Kirk, Ben Affleck as Spock and Christian Bale as a young Bones McCoy.
The story revolves around a young James T. Kirk as he enlists in the newly formed Star Fleet. At the academy he meets a young intern, Leonard McCoy. They end up serving their first mission together. Its on the USS Omega, where they first encounter a science officer named Spock. Some kind of trouble ensues and the senior officers on the Omega are injured or killed. Kirk, Spock and McCoy are thrust into action.
I also heard the same. And that Tom Hanks is involved in the Star Trek XI movie production and had his hand in choosing the cast (ie. Damon, Affleck and Bale). We can probably expect cameos from the original cast as well (Shatner, Nimoy). Phasers on stunned.
Ditto, on all this. Rumours also abound about John Travolta, Hugo Weaving and Adrian Paul joining the cast. Paul's character will be a junior engineer who befriends Kirk on the mission (sounds like a young Scotty).
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I also heard the same. And that Tom Hanks is involved in the Star Trek XI movie production and had his hand in choosing the cast (ie. Damon, Affleck and Bale). We can probably expect cameos from the original cast as well (Shatner, Nimoy). Phasers on stunned.
Y'know, I thought you guys were just joking, but then I read this.
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