I think Lin pretty much took that approach with Beyond.
Should the next Star Trek movie have a lower budget?
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I think Lin pretty much took that approach with Beyond.
Yep.
I had a (non-Trekkie) friend who was actually disappointed because of that. She asked what happened with the Klingons and Khan. Her memory of specific details was a little surprising.
I blame Marvel. They're turning everyone into... us.
Hey, they can always bring Cumberbatch back for some... I don't know... wrath.
Audiences have already moved on.
That was one episode in a full TV series--not something glaring--completely out of place in a film. Additonally, Star Trek became a greater pop culture phenomenon immediately after that, and next to no one was saying "uurg--the series lost its credibility because of space hippes!" You're seeing that kind of cultural growth with NuTrek.
Just like they had after "Space Seed" - but if they can come up with a compelling reason, people will come back for Khan.
I tend to think that is a different kind of scenario. I believe audiences were looking for a follow up to Khan and a Klingon war and saw that they abandoned that storyline.
Six or seven years on, they may not care to return to an abandoned story. Plus, you have to be able to lure back Cumberbatch.
Only it was just like the other two...
Not from where I'm sitting. But everyone's entitled to their own opinion.
That's true enough.
Stylistically I couldn't find any difference between, well, any of them.
Fingers crossed STIV has to rely on character and plot...
The problem is that they decided to ignore the plot holes instead of fixing them. It's not even that hard! The reason Khan had a transwarp beaming device is that Scotty's formula was confiscated not by Starfleet, but Section 31 who built a prototype device for infiltrating and attacking Federation enemies from within. Khan's blood worked on Kirk because Kirk wasn't fully dead and the genetically enhanced cells regenerated the necrotic tissues.I had a (non-Trekkie) friend who was actually disappointed because of that. She asked what happened with the Klingons and Khan. Her memory of specific details was a little surprising.
I blame Marvel. They're turning everyone into... us.
To Doctor Strange. Where the bare, wet, rock-hard Cumber-abs now reside.
Good job seizing on that opportunity when it was available to you, eh Star Trek?
And we're all the better for it.
I'd say that is debatable at best. And Paramount would obviously argue otherwise based on the box office totals.
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Paramount should try promoting its films if it wants to make money. Besides, Beyond is the highest grossing Paramount film of the year, so the movie's doing something right, in spite of Paramount self-sabotaging itself.
I disagree. I liked it well enough but, unlike the first two, I didn't buy Beyond on day of release and have no burning desire to revisit it. I have watched Into Darkness three times since I saw Beyond and may well do so three more times before I buy Beyond. But, to each his own.
This is true and why I think that, despite all the doomsaying, we will be getting a fourth movie. It still did well enough and definitely wasn't a flop like Ninja Turtles.
Will overseas box-office receipts justify an expanded budget for the next film, or will it be reduced?
And financing from Alibaba Group Holding Limited again?
A limited budget might mean Paramount could swing the whole bill themselves. Without
Spyglass, or Skydance, or Alibaba.
And financing from Alibaba Group Holding Limited again?
A limited budget might mean Paramount could swing the whole bill themselves. Without
Spyglass, or Skydance, or Alibaba.
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