chainsaw_metal1

Member: Rank 8
If they're going to do a fourth film, this should be a definite finale. And here is my list of things to avoid:
-Don't bring George Kirk back from the dead. This idea just sounds terrible, outside of a holodeck situation (they existed on ST:TAS, so it would be canon, no matter what Uncle Gene said).
-No Time Travel!!!
-No revenge villains. The original crew got through six movies with only Wrath of Khan being a revenge film (Undiscovered Country was a political intrigue film, not a revenge film). Make a villain who isn't just cut-and-paste "I have a bone to pick with Starfleet, so I'ma take on Kirk". Seriously.
-No Tarantino. I love the guy's work, but I don't see him doing Trek. Let Pegg work on it, since he wrote the best of the first three films.
-No Time Travel!!! What did I say?
-And don't destroy the Enterprise. This ship gets beaten up, yes, but it seems to get quite the working over in these films. And it took them three movies to get to the new Enterprise.It took the original crew two series and three movies to get there.
-Did I see you just write Time Travel in the screenplay? Do you want me to come over there? My pimp hand is warming up, dammit!
 

Gavin

Member: Rank 6
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If they're going to do a fourth film, this should be a definite finale. And here is my list of things to avoid:
-Don't bring George Kirk back from the dead. This idea just sounds terrible, outside of a holodeck situation (they existed on ST:TAS, so it would be canon, no matter what Uncle Gene said).
-No Time Travel!!!
-No revenge villains. The original crew got through six movies with only Wrath of Khan being a revenge film (Undiscovered Country was a political intrigue film, not a revenge film). Make a villain who isn't just cut-and-paste "I have a bone to pick with Starfleet, so I'ma take on Kirk". Seriously.
-No Tarantino. I love the guy's work, but I don't see him doing Trek. Let Pegg work on it, since he wrote the best of the first three films.
-No Time Travel!!! What did I say?
-And don't destroy the Enterprise. This ship gets beaten up, yes, but it seems to get quite the working over in these films. And it took them three movies to get to the new Enterprise.It took the original crew two series and three movies to get there.
-Did I see you just write Time Travel in the screenplay? Do you want me to come over there? My pimp hand is warming up, dammit!
I agree with everything you said but I feel it's important to add one major point - NO TIME TRAVEL!!!!!
 

Doctor Omega

Member: Rank 10
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The film that killed STAR TREK: CONTINUES


Planned feature film

Raising $638,000 on Kickstarter through the creation and release of Prelude to Axanar, Peters went into pre-production for the feature film Star Trek: Axanar, with production slated to begin in October 2015,[16] for an early 2016 release.[17] The original plan was to raise financing "in chunks", with the initial Kickstarter to raise enough money to obtain a warehouse, convert it to a sound stage and build sets.[12] Approximately $200,000 of the funding happened in the campaign's final 49 hours, after Star Trek alum George Takeishared his interest publicly, bringing production more than six-times the originally sought amount of $100,000.[17] The cast includes: Richard Hatch as Kharn the Undying (Klingon supreme commander); J. G. Hertzler as Admiral Samuel Travis (Captain of the USS Hercules); Gary Graham as Soval (Vulcan Ambassador to the Federation); and Kate Vernon as Captain Sonya Alexander (Captain of the USS Ajax).

On January 3, 2016, Alec Peters announced he would no longer portray Captain Kelvar Garth in the Axanar movie, stating that he wanted to hire a professional actor to fill the role, which would allow him to focus more on writing and producing.[18]

Lawsuit

On December 29, 2015, CBS and Paramount Pictures filed a copyright lawsuit seeking damages in the US District Court for the Central District of California, stating Axanar works infringe their rights by making use of the Klingon language and "innumerable copyrighted elements of Star Trek, including its settings, characters, species, and themes".









Planned feature film

Raising $638,000 on Kickstarter through the creation and release of Prelude to Axanar, Peters went into pre-production for the feature film Star Trek: Axanar, with production slated to begin in October 2015,[16] for an early 2016 release.[17] The original plan was to raise financing "in chunks", with the initial Kickstarter to raise enough money to obtain a warehouse, convert it to a sound stage and build sets.[12] Approximately $200,000 of the funding happened in the campaign's final 49 hours, after Star Trek alum George Takeishared his interest publicly, bringing production more than six-times the originally sought amount of $100,000.[17] The cast includes: Richard Hatch as Kharn the Undying (Klingon supreme commander); J. G. Hertzler as Admiral Samuel Travis (Captain of the USS Hercules); Gary Graham as Soval (Vulcan Ambassador to the Federation); and Kate Vernon as Captain Sonya Alexander (Captain of the USS Ajax).

On January 3, 2016, Alec Peters announced he would no longer portray Captain Kelvar Garth in the Axanar movie, stating that he wanted to hire a professional actor to fill the role, which would allow him to focus more on writing and producing.

Lawsuit
On December 29, 2015, CBS and Paramount Pictures filed a copyright lawsuit seeking damages in the US District Court for the Central District of California, stating Axanar works infringe their rights by making use of the Klingon language and "innumerable copyrighted elements of Star Trek, including its settings, characters, species, and themes".

On March 28, 2016, Axanar Productions filed a motion to dismiss or strike Paramount and CBS's claims, saying the elements mentioned in the court filing are not protected by copyright and it is seeking premature relief from a work, the Axanar film, that does not exist.[20]

On May 9, 2016, the motion to dismiss the lawsuit was denied. Later that month, J. J. Abrams said that "within the next few weeks, it will be announced this is going away". Abrams said he pushed the studio to stop the lawsuit, because "we realized this is not the appropriate way to deal with the fans."[21] This statement by Abrams had no apparent effect on the lawsuit, since the case was scheduled for a jury trial in early 2017.

On June 23, 2016, Paramount and CBS released new fan film guidelines, which Axanar staff described as "disheartening" and "draconian."

On January 5, 2017, U.S. District Court judge R. Gary Klausner rejected various motions by both parties, setting the stage for a civil trial on the matter to go forward on January 31.[24] On January 20, 2017, the parties announced that the lawsuit had been settled, with Alec Peters and Axanar Productions promising to make "substantial changes" to Axanarand agreeing to abide by Paramount's and CBS' "Guidelines for Fan Films."[25] Under the terms of the settlement, the filmmakers will be allowed to release two 15-minute movies, instead of their planned 90-minute feature.

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Doctor Omega

Member: Rank 10
Paramount Pictures used its CinemaCon presentation this evening to either announce or confirm numerous films they have in store. They officially announced that two new “Star Trek” films are on the way, as is a new “G.I. Joe” and “Micronauts” film, two animated films called “Monsters on the Hill” and “Luck,” and a new live-action “Spongebob Squarepants” movie called “A Wonderful Sponge”.
 

Doctor Omega

Member: Rank 10
Tarantino's Star Trek NOT in Kelvin Timeline!!!


Paramount recently announced Tarantino's Star Trek film will not be in the Kelvin Timeline and it will come out after a fourth film that is in the Kelvin Timeline with Chris Hemsworth reprising his role as Kirk's dad. Watch to see who is likely to direct that film and who is likely to appear in Tarantino's Star Trek.


 

ant-mac

Member: Rank 9
Space - the final motherfucking frontier. These are the motherfucking voyages of the motherfucking starship Enterprise. Its five-year motherfucking mission - to explore strange new motherfucking worlds - to seek out new bros and new hos - to boldly go where no bro has gone before - and fuck all those motherfucking green hos!
 

Doctor Omega

Member: Rank 10
Meyer, Pegg Talk New “Star Trek” Films


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Last year came reports that filmmaker Nicholas Meyer, the director of both “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country,” was involved in a new project in the franchise – one separate from CBS All Access and Netflix’s “Star Trek: Discovery” series.

Further specifics, however, were not available until now when, whilst speaking at a discussion about “Shakespeare and Star Trek” at the University of California (via TrekCore), Meyer revealed he’s been working on a trilogy of “Star Trek” films for CBS All Access. Unfortunately, it hit a speed bump:

“I was hired to write a stand-alone Star Trek-related trilogy. I can’t discuss or I’d have to kill you. [Laughs] I was writing it for CBS [All] Access… but at the moment CBS is at a war with Paramount/Viacom. They’re in a power struggle, which turned really nasty this past week when CBS decided to sue [its parent company]. So, I don’t think my project is going anywhere in a hurry, because everything is on hold while they sort out this merger business. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.”

CBS is suing its parent company National Amusements in an effort to block a merger with Viacom (which owns Paramount Pictures). Should it go ahead, then the two companies that control the “Star Trek” series and films will fall under one roof.

Meanwhile Simon Pegg, who stars as Scotty in the J.J. Abrams-era “Star Trek” films, and helped write the last one “Star Trek Beyond,” recently spoke with ComingSoon and cleared up some confusion just as to who is writing the next film in the series.

Pegg says he has no involvement in the script for the fourth film with J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay doing the script and S.J. Clarkson directing. He also says Tarantino’s Trek film is notably further off:

“Quentin [Tarantino] turned up at the office a couple of months ago and said, ‘Hey, I’ve got an idea!’ So that’s in the hope for further down the line… Everyone sort of assumes it’s gonna be like “Pulp Fiction” in space, but I think his devotion to “Trek” and his understanding of it.

It won’t be ordinary, it’ll have him all over it, but it won’t be anything a “Star Trek” fan will have to worry about. He has an acute understanding of the story and he’d never do anything to tear it down. I haven’t read the treatment yet, but I might be able to in the next couple of weeks, so I’m excited about that.”

The second season of “Star Trek: Discovery” is in production, no air date has yet been set.
 

Doctor Omega

Member: Rank 10
Nicholas Meyer: His STAR TREK Miniseries Is On Hold Until The CBS Merger Crisis Concludes!!

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“I was hired to write a stand-alone ‘Star Trek’-related trilogy,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” director-ghostwriter Nicholas Meyer revealed to an audience gathered for his May 15 “Shakespeare and Star Trek” discussion at the University of California, Irvine.

“I was writing it for CBS [All] Access, but at the moment CBS is at a war with Paramount/Viacom. They’re in a power struggle which turned really nasty this past week when CBS decided to sue Viacom. So I don’t think my project is going anywhere in a hurry, because everything is on hold while they sort out this merger business.”

Though Meyer has never publicly revealed the subject matter of his secret Trek project, we've known since spring 2017 that Meyer’s CBSAA miniseries would serve as prequel to “The Wrath of Khan,” depicting the genetically enhanced superman’s life prior to his final showdown with Admiral James Kirk.

Meyer was credited as “consulting producer” during the first season of CBSAA’s “Star Trek: Discovery,” but sources indicate Meyer has had little or nothing to do with “Discovery” since producers elected not to produce the script he co-wrote for “Discovery’s” second episode.

Aside from 1982's “Star Trek II,” Meyer co-wrote and produced 1986's “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” (the one with the whales) and co-wrote, produced and directed 1991's “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” (the one with the Klingon general who looked like Christopher Plummer). He also wrote and directed the 1979 Jack The Ripper thriller "Time After Time" and directed the 1983 post-apocalypse drama "The Day After."
 

Doctor Omega

Member: Rank 10
Meyer’s CBSAA miniseries would serve as prequel to “The Wrath of Khan,” depicting the genetically enhanced superman’s life prior to his final showdown with Admiral James Kirk.


No thanks.

Have simply had enough of lazy, cowardly prequels.

And if they set it on Ceti Alpha V, it can only be boring, surely....



Joachim opens door of Botany Bay.

JOACHIM: Looks bad out there today Dad!

KHAN: Then close the door you imbecile!

JOACHIM: Oh, right!

Shuts door.
 

Doctor Omega

Member: Rank 10
Tarantino’s “Star Trek” Aims For R-Rating?


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On the small screen, the “Star Trek” franchise is looking healthier than it has in years with another season of “Star Trek: Discovery” on the way, new short films, a new Picard series and further shows planned. On the film front however things aren’t going so smoothly as breakdowns in negotiations with Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth seem to be stalling the progress of a fourth film in the J.J. Abrams-era rebooted film series.

One of the film’s stars, actor Karl Urban who plays Dr. McCoy, appeared at the Trekonderoga convention recently and says he’s confident that the salary dispute with the two Chrises will be resolved and the film will go forward. If not though, they have Quentin Tarantino’s proposed “Star Trek” project in the works as well with Urban confirming it involves the current film cast and looks to be targeting an R-rating:

Quentin Tarantino went in to [producer] J.J. [Abrams]’s offices and pitched him an idea for a Star Trek movie. I know a little bit about what that is, and it’s bananas. So, they are writing that as well.

I was personally delighted he was not only a Star Trek fan, but also interested in working with our cast. It’s not only a new story, but he is just one of those filmmakers that has a very unique and specific vision. And he totally utilizes the camera to tell the story… I think that Tarantino would be able to do something quite unique. So, fingers crossed that will happen. It is in the hands of Paramount. If we don’t get to make [Star Trek 4] next year with Chris Hemsworth, then that’s ok, let’s make a really good Quentin Tarantino Star Trek movie.

You shouldn’t worry that it is going to be full of obscenity and stuff. He wants an R-rating to really make those beats of consequence land. If it’s not PG, if someone gets sucked out into space, which we have all seen before, we might see them get disemboweled first…It allows some breadth…gives him some leeway to do that. To me, that was always one of the things I loved about what DeForest Kelley did. He would actually capture the horror of space. That look in his eyes of sheer terror always struck me when I was a kid.

Fellow cast mates Zoe Saldana, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg and John Cho are all expected to return for the new film with S.J. Clarkson still slated to direct the one involving Hemsworth which hasn’t set production or releases date as yet.
 
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