Should the next Star Trek movie have a lower budget?
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Almost everywhere was down from Into Darkness, unfortunately. So I suspect it'll be kept the same or reduced a little. As for financing, who knows at this point? Skydance will almost certainly be involved again.
Whatever comes next is going to be on a lower budget. The decision Paramount has to make is whether it is going to continue to make 'blockbuster Star Trek' or go back to smaller lower budget Star Trek. If Paramount decides on the latter, that will be end of the Kelvin Universe movies.
I was more optimistic earlier in the year, but seeing the final box office numbers it's clear Beyond under performed and I can't see Paramount being in a rush to do another big budget Kelvin Universe movie with an expensive cast.
In my opinion I think the film franchise is now effectively in limbo and the Kelvin Universe as we have known it is dead. If we do see the Kelvin Trek again it will be with a smaller cast and different setting.
I was more optimistic earlier in the year, but seeing the final box office numbers it's clear Beyond under performed and I can't see Paramount being in a rush to do another big budget Kelvin Universe movie with an expensive cast.
In my opinion I think the film franchise is now effectively in limbo and the Kelvin Universe as we have known it is dead. If we do see the Kelvin Trek again it will be with a smaller cast and different setting.
Paramount just released Arrival a few weeks ago and should use that as a model of what to to with the Trek film franchise going forward. Arrival is a smart, thoughtful, character driven sci-fi movie made on a budget of $47 million and after only three weeks in the theater is already in profit territory.
And Arrival achieved that without a motorcycle chase and Beasty Boyz.
*I think. I haven't actually seen Arrival, but plan to...
Beastie Boys ?Spoiler Alert: No motorcycle scenes in Arrival
So, we reboot again? Sounds good to me.
Which is largely a positive. Shame they didn't get the memo for the Alice Eve shot too. If a trek film is relying on flesh to sell then it really is time to call it a day.
No, it's used it sometimes, usually badly, but not relied on. ID had some pretty fundamental flaws and bra shots didn't remedy them, nor would abs shots.
While I like the Kelvin trilogy and the characterization and plot, I would certainly appreciate a slower pace to the next film. So, I could get onboard with this. I think Star Trek could strike a balance between the action pace of the last three, and the pacing of Interstellar.
Each of the Trek shows had some fundamental flaws and still used flesh gratuitously at times.
If that was a sign that it was time to "call it a day", we wouldn't have much Trek at all.
It baffles me how seeing an attractive woman's abdomen for a few seconds remains an issue for people years later.
Teh boobies violate GENES VISION!!!!
Other series have (mostly) had the substance to stand on their own without it, in fact I'd argue despite it where it's been used. The comment I was replying to implied that further flesh shots would have improved the film. The ones we had didn't save it so why one more?
Trek has never relied on flesh, no matter how often it was shown, the point here is that ID would not have been any more of a worthwhile outing as a result.
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