The "official" movie posters question.

[Khan 2.0]

I'm curious about the provenance of the other TVH poster that was used on the home video cover. It looks like it and the orange one were made from the same brief, but went in different directions. I'd almost think it was a sketch or rough draft and the orange one is the final version.

Probably an earlier Peak draft or an alternate version by another artist that wasn't used? used to 'spice up' the VHS release (as opposed to using the standard official poster) as TVH was something of an event

 

[mb22]

I think it was used to project a less 'science fictional', serious image for the film and show a more humorous one to attract mainstream audiences. I recall it was first used in print ads a few weeks after the premier when hard core Trek fans had already seen the film.

 

[GNDN18]

I'm curious about the provenance of the other TVH poster that was used on the home video cover. It looks like it and the orange one were made from the same brief, but went in different directions. I'd almost think it was a sketch or rough draft and the orange one is the final version.

Probably an earlier Peak draft or an alternate version by another artist that wasn't used? used to 'spice up' the VHS release (as opposed to using the standard official poster) as TVH was something of an event

The version released the week of 11/26/1986 for newspaper ads was a little different than the image on the video boxes:

 

[mb22]

11/26 newspaper ad? I think most papers were still using original one a that date.
Here is one from 11/30:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s8l-yu7AZLM/Sbh_BrsFtXI/AAAAAAAAGTY/sRuic8vfVSE/s1600-h/st_4_tvh.jpg

 

[GNDN18]

11/26 newspaper ad? I think most papers were still using original one a that date.
Here is one from 11/30:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s8l-yu7AZLM/Sbh_BrsFtXI/AAAAAAAAGTY/sRuic8vfVSE/s1600-h/st_4_tvh.jpg

Many papers used the main poster. I found that one through news.google.com/newspapers some years ago. I don’t recall which paper, but I wanted to confirm my recollection of a slightly different Kirk.

 

[gottacook]

Wrath of Khan official theatrical poster (I am unclear on whether or not there was a pre-release poster of any sort.

Here is the pre-release four-page magazine spread with all "II"s absent: pages 4 and 1, followed by 2 & 3.

 

[gottacook]

Star Trek TMP rare "teaser" release poster:

I hadn't seen this variation of the writing credits before. In the earlier "A 23rd century odyssey now" poster, it's "screenplay by Roddenberry and Livingston" and no separate story credit; here, it's "screenplay by Livingston" and "story by Foster and Roddenberry". Eventually, of course, it's screenplay by Livingston and story by Foster.

Also, although I can't locate it online, I remember seeing an early First Contact poster with "A film by Jonathan Frakes" at the top of the credits - this disappeared for the release itself; I wonder how it got there in the first place (it's perhaps a little presumptuous for any first-time feature director).