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2007-10-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Shatner: How come I'm not in new 'Star Trek'?

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-27 07:53|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 You're dead Jim

Posted by john frum 2007-10-27 08:33|| 2007-10-27 08:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Willam Shatner HAS BEEN.

I blame number 9 Jim.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-27 08:41|| 2007-10-27 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 He should be asking "how come they're recycling that old series?" How 'bout something new?

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-10-27 09:42|| 2007-10-27 09:42|| Front Page Top

#4 It's a trick. He's doing a cameo as The Great Big Head.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-10-27 10:15|| 2007-10-27 10:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I can see him in a background shot on a telescreen hawking low price fares on Enterprise.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-10-27 10:34|| 2007-10-27 10:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Shatner very craftily tied his boat to Nimoy's many years ago. That is, by contract, if Nimoy got *anything*, then Shatner had to get it too. This even went so far as with Nimoy directing ST-IV, they had to let Shatner direct (the funky) ST-V (aka "Cap'n Kirk meets God").

But if that particular clause has lapsed, then Paramount would probably tell Shatner to take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-27 10:46|| 2007-10-27 10:46|| Front Page Top

#7 pics of the cast

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-27 10:47|| 2007-10-27 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 I have a bad feeling about this new movie. It just seems desperate to drag out the same characters, but the young versions?. Paramount clearly does not understand the franchise and why it was successful and they've been milking it for far too long.

If they wanted to revive the series they should do a WINDS OF WAR style mini-series. The conflict should be against the Klingons because they are a favorite.

The first episode in the mini-series should take place during the Captain Sulu time frame and use the slightly old Enterprise cast as well as Captain Sulu and crew to set up the situation. A planet along the Klingon border wants to join the Federation. The Federation tries but eventually backs down and the Klingon's crush the planet.

The next episodes takes place during the Next Gen/DS9/Voyager time frame when that planet wants independence again and the Federation tries to support it but the Klingon's declare war. The war is nasty, brutal, and lasts a couple two-hour movies worth. During the war we find that Klingon's looked different during the old series because Logistical problems prevented them from getting the right nutrition and they got Klingon Scurvy, which for warriors is a real embarrassment (and which meant the Feds could have beaten them if they hadn't backed down).

At the end of the last of the mini-series the Romulans side with the Federation (thanks to Spocks work behind their lines) and the Klingon's back off huffing and puffing but unwilling to fight a two front war.

Paramount, I'll write it, it'll rock, give me a call.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-10-27 13:17|| 2007-10-27 13:17|| Front Page Top

#9 A 76 year old man with a bad toupe doesn't exactly make leading man material.

Posted by McZoid 2007-10-27 14:47|| 2007-10-27 14:47|| Front Page Top

#10 It just seems desperate to drag out the same characters, but the young versions?. Paramount clearly does not understand the franchise...

The very first rumors of a Star Trek revival, way back in the late Seventies, had this very premise. I thought it was a bad idea at the time, and still think so. I want THE FUTURE! not the future's past.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-10-27 15:07|| 2007-10-27 15:07|| Front Page Top

#11 The original casting for this pic would have been pretty awesome - Matt Damon as Kirk, Adrien Brody as Spock, and Gary Sinise as McCoy - but apparently the studio has been itching to try a version of Trek than can most politely be called 'Star Trek 90210'....and they're gonna get their wish.

Paramount and Trek's producers, of all people, should remember the old saw about being careful what you wish for.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-10-27 15:09|| 2007-10-27 15:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Video here.

Posted by Mike 2007-10-27 17:36|| 2007-10-27 17:36|| Front Page Top

#13 It just seems desperate to drag out the same characters, but the young versions?

This strategy worked so very well for Warner Brothers' with their Tiny Toons. Hollywood is so creatively bankrupt that all they can do is recycle old ideas. This, despite the existence of incredible new work like Peter Hamilton's "Reality Dysfunction", part I of his Night's Dawn six book trilogy. It is some of the finest modern Sci-Fi written and yet Hollywood resuscitates stale 1960s television shows and comic books for their plot lines.

Paramount clearly does not understand the franchise and why it was successful and they've been milking it for far too long.

Like the last cow on the farm.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-27 19:05|| 2007-10-27 19:05|| Front Page Top

#14 re: post #7

That would be a great cast for a mashup titled, "Sylar and Julius Caesar go to White Castle"

For Star Trek, not so much

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-10-27 19:06|| 2007-10-27 19:06|| Front Page Top

#15 Anyone suprised?

Hollywood hasn't had very many 'fresh' ideas in decades. Any wonder why most of the blockbusters during the last few decades have been, in essence, remakes or from other media (books, plays, even saturday morning cartoons....)

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-10-27 19:20|| 2007-10-27 19:20|| Front Page Top

#16 there have been some inventive films, they just don't come from the major studios, who push low, but steady profits from sequels, prequels, spinoffs. They seem about to run the comic book conversions into the ground. I've loved the Spiderman movies, but as a kid, I was a Fantastic 4 fan and the movies have SUCKED, imho. Mel Gibson has been taunting the majors and making big bucks doing so. I thought Apocalypto was excellent, and The Passion was even better. There are still good flicks being made (Cinderella Man, Last Samurai, Open Range?)- check out 3:10 to Yuma (albeit, a remake), and I have high hopes for American Gangster... too many execs want to do little, risk little, and others are determined to ram their anti-american, anti-military (helllooo Robt Redford?) shit down our throats. Vote with your pocketbooks!!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-27 19:36|| 2007-10-27 19:36|| Front Page Top

#17 "Old Man's War" would make a great movie!

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-10-27 19:51|| 2007-10-27 19:51|| Front Page Top

#18 I think so...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-27 20:05|| 2007-10-27 20:05|| Front Page Top

#19 They Misquoted me, it was...

Whyyyyyyyyy... am I... Not.. in the New... startrekmovie?

Posted by Bill Shatner 2007-10-27 20:31|| 2007-10-27 20:31|| Front Page Top

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