Star Trek XI- Official now- 12.25.2008 (merged) - Page 20

Kachi Khatri · 05-02-2008, 04:01 PM

Here is an article with JJ Abrahm on his talk about the film.

`Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world - Yahoo! News

..."It was an opportunity to take what I think has been a maligned world — to sound crass, a franchise — and treat it in a way that made it something that I wanted to see. To take the characters, the thoughtfulness, the personalities, the sense of adventure, the idea of humanity working together, the sense of social commentary and innovation, all that stuff. To take it and apply it in a way that felt genuinely thrilling."...

Not a huge ST fan, but Abram's commitment is encouraging enough to make me look forward to this next summer.

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Jerome Grate · 05-09-2008, 10:05 AM

Any reasons why the date was pushed back from December 2008 to May 2009.

RickER · 05-09-2008, 11:31 AM

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Any reasons why the date was pushed back from December 2008 to May 2009.

Yep, thanks to the writers strike, and a possible actors strike they pushed it back so they can have SOMETHING on the screen next summer.

Jason Seaver · 05-09-2008, 11:32 AM

A combination of Paramount thinking it would make more money in the summer and trying to stretch what they already had in production out because of the writers' strike and (potential) actors' strike.

Nelson Au · 05-09-2008, 01:35 PM

I also read that the studio bigwigs were so impressed with the footage that JJ Abrams was getting that they felt Star Trek was going to be a very strong performer. And they felt it was on par with Indiana Jones as a tentpole franchise, so it made it a natural for the summer season.

I'm not sure I like that too much. On the one had, it's great the new people at Paramount think highly of Star Trek. (The old regime, not Berman and Braga, the studio executives that used to be at Paramount back in the eighties and nineties used to support Trek, but they left, which was one reason Enterprise had lost studio support during it's run)

I just hope the new executives leave the writers alone if there are more Treks and don't dumb it down. I hope this new JJ Abrams Trek isn't dumbed down! But we know Nimoy would not do it if it was not good.

Chris Will · 05-09-2008, 01:46 PM

So, there is going to be an actor's strike now. While the rest of the country struggles to fill our gas tanks, actors who make 20 million a pop are going to beg for more. Sometimes I just cannot stand Hollywood anymore. Yes, I know there are struggling actors out there, it just doesn't seem right that the $20 million a pop stars will also benefit from a strike and be the most vocal about it.

Now, about Trek. Next May is filling up quickly and I really think, now more then ever, that Paramount made a huge mistake by moving this film. I love Trek but, I believe it will get lost in the shuffle of summer blockbusters by today general audiences when it would have been the only thing to see this Christmas. I also believe the same thing will happen to Indiana Jones in a few weeks. Todays audiences will be turned off by the "old style" of movie making and it will get lost among the other movies coming out.

TravisR · 05-09-2008, 01:59 PM

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Yes, I know there are struggling actors out there, it just doesn't seem right that the $20 million a pop stars will also benefit from a strike and be the most vocal about it.

If you know that then what's the problem. Overhwelmingly, the people that would benefit will be the number of actors who wait tables and pray to get a two line role on CSI (rather than the number of actors like Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson who make more money than their grandchildren can hope to spend).

Paul Padilla · 05-09-2008, 02:26 PM

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Yes, I know there are struggling actors out there, it just doesn't seem right that the $20 million a pop stars will also benefit from a strike and be the most vocal about it.

Sounds like a topic for a new thread...but in the mean time, the number of SAG, not to mention Equity actors who make even 6 figures a year is abysmally small to say nothing of $20 Million "a pop". However, like the housing BS that's going on, the rich will always get richer.

Jason Seaver · 05-09-2008, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris Will

So, there is going to be an actor's strike now. While the rest of the country struggles to fill our gas tanks, actors who make 20 million a pop are going to beg for more. Sometimes I just cannot stand Hollywood anymore. Yes, I know there are struggling actors out there, it just doesn't seem right that the $20 million a pop stars will also benefit from a strike and be the most vocal about it.

There are something like ten actors who make $20M/film. Even if I thought that was a bad thing, I wouldn't be too choked up over them benefiting if it meant everyone else would. As for being the most vocal, that's part selection bias (you're more likely to hear about the big names) and part a good thing, in terms of deflecting attention away from those with more to lose.

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Originally Posted by Chris Will

I love Trek but, I believe it will get lost in the shuffle of summer blockbusters by today general audiences when it would have been the only thing to see this Christmas.

I wish I had more time to see if you were one of the folks earlier in the thread saying that a Christmas release showed Paramount had no faith in the film and no-one would go to see it then.

Mikel_Cooperman · 05-09-2008, 05:47 PM

I think Christmas would have been perfect for it but a Summer movie with all it's Competition? I don't think it will survive among them.