Karl Urban : Star Trek 4 would be a blast.
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"Urban is unsure of the franchise’s future..." "...the movie has not been green-lit, and no director is attached." Hmm.
Agree with author of linked article - STB saw this group of actors find their footing as a group and telling a ST story
WANT to see more from them. Feel with a yality script ST 4 would be good hit. Also feel Paramount w a new CEO is reviewing their assets, market, etc. To quote Chuck Noll - "they have issues and they are great".....
ST is a excellent property and paramount will rediscover this & like someone posted on Borg thread, we will see ST14 eventually, but when and in what capacity will be determined
WANT to see more from them. Feel with a yality script ST 4 would be good hit. Also feel Paramount w a new CEO is reviewing their assets, market, etc. To quote Chuck Noll - "they have issues and they are great".....
ST is a excellent property and paramount will rediscover this & like someone posted on Borg thread, we will see ST14 eventually, but when and in what capacity will be determined
Probably not. The tv rights and the film rights are owned by two different companies, so they're looking at two different financials.
But not two completely different audiences.
Paramount has HUGE problems right now. I'd be hesitant to commit big money to any project in their position.
Also, there was a no-compete clause between CBS and Paramount, CBS couldn't release anything about Discovery until 6 months after Beyond was released (not that it mattered, endless delays later), who knows if they have some kind of reverse deal going on right now where Paramount can't steal CBS' Discovery thunder.
Also, there was a no-compete clause between CBS and Paramount, CBS couldn't release anything about Discovery until 6 months after Beyond was released (not that it mattered, endless delays later), who knows if they have some kind of reverse deal going on right now where Paramount can't steal CBS' Discovery thunder.
That was a thing? Wow, that's seriously stupid.
Beyond really could have used the Star Trek name floating in the media to raise the profile and awareness of the picture, and Paramount basically banned some free publicity themselves?
Yes it was a thing and yes it didn't make a lick of sense. If they'd announced a new film and a new show simultaneously, I would have needed a fainting couch to compose myself.That was a thing? Wow, that's seriously stupid.
Beyond really could have used the Star Trek name floating in the media to raise the profile and awareness of the picture, and Paramount basically banned some free publicity themselves?
That's not a "no-compete". That's basically a no-cross-promotion. Way to go.
Paramount is really hurting bad. The Star Trek franchise underperformed. The Transformer franchise underperformed. (While the fourth film made over $1 billion dollars, the fifth movie made over $550 million.) There is one franchise left, Mission: Impossible, which will have the sixth movie premiere next year. Paramount is bleeding money at this point, while other studios like Universal and Disney are raking in the money.
That would suit me fine. The promise that 09 showed has been squandered. Utterly.
I think if anything has been squandered, it's reaching out to a wider audience. I'm very happy with the Kelvin Timeline. I just wish Paramount gave a shit about marketing their golden goose.
They would at least market and merchandise it better. Even "Walking Dead" does better than Star Trek right now.
Agreed! Trek '09 set up Trek as a potentionally very succesful franchise, on par with other tentpoles of the time... they should have put out Into Darkness 2 years later and made an animated series in between... but no... nothing happened and Into Darkness came a bloody 4 (!) years later... it still made about 230 domestically, but had it come out earlier chances are it would have made a lot more..
According to one source, the last film lost $50 million and that Bad Robot/Paramount are behind Discovery.
