No News, No Nothing!!

[Greg Cox]

Exactly. I'm curious about the next Trek movie, too, but it's not like we don't have plenty of stuff to occupy us between now and next May: a new Bond movie, a new Hobbit movie, the new season of Walking Dead, etc.

I'll worry about next summer's movies next summer!

[Set Harth]

Next year is certainly going to stretch my film-going budget. At least by comparison with the last few years.

[tmosler]

The past couple weeks there has been like no new news

[RoJoHen]

And nobody is under any obligation to report new news. When does this thing come out? Next May? I hope there's no new information until April.

[C.E. Evans]

There was a time you wouldn't even hear anything about a new movie until just before its release, so you went into the theatre not knowing in advance what the story was about. Abrams is kind of "old school" that way.

[The Wormhole]

C.E. Evans wrote:

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There was a time you wouldn't even hear anything about a new movie until just before its release, so you went into the theatre not knowing in advance what the story was about. Abrams is kind of "old school" that way.

Or, Abrams needs to stop living in the past and get with the times. The entire script for Nemesis was available online 17 months before its release. It's 9 months before Trek XII's release and all we know is that Benedict Cumberbatch is wearing a black t-shirt.

[Ovation]

The Wormhole wrote:

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Or, Abrams needs to stop living in the past and get with the times. The entire script for Nemesis was available online 17 months before its release. It's 9 months before Trek XII's release and all we know is that Benedict Cumberbatch is wearing a black t-shirt.

I prefer (much prefer) the "old school" way. I wish a LOT more people in the film industry took his approach. I've almost stopped watching movie trailers because unlike the best ones of yesteryear, that teased and hinted, many simply offer too much information and ruin the surprise. Better no trailer than that kind of trailer.

[The Wormhole]

Ovation wrote:

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I prefer (much prefer) the "old school" way. I wish a LOT more people in the film industry took his approach. I've almost stopped watching movie trailers because unlike the best ones of yesteryear, that teased and hinted, many simply offer too much information and ruin the surprise. Better no trailer than that kind of trailer.

Trailers have always been revealing key plot points about movies. The trailer for The Search fo Spock featured the Enterprise's destruction.

[Sindatur]

The Wormhole wrote:

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Or, Abrams needs to stop living in the past and get with the times. The entire script for Nemesis was available online 17 months before its release. It's 9 months before Trek XII's release and all we know is that Benedict Cumberbatch is wearing a black t-shirt.

Are you being facetious, or do you honestly believe the script being available on the Internet before release of a movie is a good thing and should be standard operating procedure? IMHO, that's a terrible idea, you wouldn't be able to go on the Internet for fear some creep is gonna spill every little thing by blurting it out in casual conversation, no spoiler warnings or anything. I personally want my first viewing experience to be as untainted as possible by spoilers. Now sure, I don't have a problem with knowing who is in the movie, what characters they're playing and some basic plot information, but, the entire script, no way would I ever want that to be standard practice.

[thumbtack]

Sindatur wrote:

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Are you being facetious?

He was merely reminding us that Nemesis was the single biggest failure in Star Trek history, and that secrecy can only be a good thing.



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[Sindatur]

thumbtack wrote:

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He was merely reminding us that Nemesis was the single biggest failure in Star Trek history, and that secrecy can only be a good thing.



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That was my hope, but, I wasn't sure

[22 Stars]

lol too true.

[Admiral Buzzkill]

The Wormhole wrote:

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Or, Abrams needs to stop living in the past and get with the times.

No.

There's no virtue or advantage to doing so.

Next.

[Therin of Andor]

The Wormhole wrote:

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The entire script for Nemesis was available online 17 months before its release.

And I would say that problem was where it garnered most of the incredible wave of hatred and bad word of mouth - that led to the film not making a profit.

[CaptainDonovin]

C.E. Evans wrote:

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Anticipation is a biatch.

Imagine what things were like for Trekkies before the internet...

I can hear the high school kids now: 'What, there was a time when there was no internet? Wow, what did you do to pass the time?'.