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Kalinda Vazquez Set By Paramount To Script Original ‘Star Trek’ Movie
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Huh?
That's how Hollywood works.
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I mean the book that is often cited across academia as the "ignoration of science fiction" was written by a woman.
I don't even think that's true. It's more just what the market wants.
If by that you mean Kelvin Trek, I agree it has a lot of potential. ST in general seems terrified of the independent-minded writer/director (and too many of the fans seem to hate or fear him as well); the Kelvintrekverse might make a good sandbox for such a person to play in.
Ultimately though Kelvin is just a setting, like 22nd or 24th century. A lot of fans seemed eager to have more 24th century Trek; I suspect what they really wanted was more Berman Trek. I don't think they got it with STP. Maybe they got it with LDS (in my opinion the best of the Kurtzman Trek shows, though that's not saying much) or I suppose The Orvile if they were willing to go outside ST for their BT fix. On paper though, STP is exactly what a new 24th century Trek should be, because it's NOT Berman Trek. But that seems to be Kurtzman Trek in a nutshell; it looks GOOD on paper, but the execution is insanely stupid.
JJ Trek I think is less stupid because the two-hour movie format forces them to tell a semi(?)-coherent story. But from the three movies so far, I don't even think he's interested in ST, and certainly not from a world-building standpoint. I don't even think of him as a storyteller (I used to, when he was producing LOST). He's a GOOD producer/director, if you give him a good script. I don't think he knows a dumb script if the Orci/Kurtzman duo gives him one, and based on their combined 2nd effort with ST I don't suspect any of them know enough to NOT listen to the eager conjecture of fans or the press.
I didn't know Tarantino directed episodes of ER. But I think when you give him a movie, he's going to do his own thing, especially if he's directing it. Now it's probably a longshot to assume he was ever interested in directing his ST movie considering how quickly he moved on from it. But I think he said "Hell yeah!" when finally asked if his ST contained blood and F-bombs. Now, he said too many things for most of them to be reliable, and he cited too many Trek episodes (City, Yesterday's Ent, Piece of the Action) that don't really seem to mix. But the question is whether a Tarantino Trek with F-bombs is really objectionable. For me, ST's already spent too much time in the hands of one rigid TV producer who was far too much afraid of breaking it.
And I too was relieved when Tarantino expressed confusion/frustration about "the timelines". I've seen fans argue that that this disqualified Tarantino (according to some fan notion that Kelvin Kirk should look like Chris Pine while Prime Kirk must apparently look like somebody else... otherwise it might get too "confusing" for general audiences who don't even care about such details anyway and probably still regard the Kelvin films as prequels), however I don't buy it. To me ST needs that independent-minded writer/director now more than ever.
You have (I suspect unintentionally) described Berman Trek perfectly in that first paragraph.
Trek does need a game-changer. It's needed that ever since VOY settled back into ST's normal routine (during its second week if not its first). It can't be in the hands of people who are afraid of breaking it, or who need to test the waters before giving the keys to somebody new.
I unfortunately can't respect when ST stays within its rules. I don't suspect there's even consensus what those rules are (unless they're an interpretation of either Berman Trek's rigid rules or Roddenberry's own revisionist rules leading into the Berman era).
Yesterday I would have said the less a person knows ST, the better. In fact I'm sure I did say it many times. Kurtzman Trek has since proved me wrong. You clearly need to at least study Trek. OR treat is as actual science fiction. OR regard science fiction with the same respect as any other genre of dramatic storytelling. (At least) one of those three conditions is not being met by the Kurtzman Trek machine.
But I would take a Harve Bennett (who did study Trek) any day over a Rick Berman, and a "game-changer" like Nick Meyer, Rian Johnson, possibly Brian Fuller (we didn't really get a change to find out) or even a Tarantino any day over anybody else. And maybe Noah Hawley would have been another one of these poeple.
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*checks IMDB* I see she's written a Short Trek, a Discovery season 3 episode, and several episodes of Human Target, Runaways, Once Upon a Time and Fear the Walking Dead. Not amazing, but not bad. I'll watch (like there was ever any doubt I'd watch a Star Trek movie...or - excepting 3 so far [ID, Nemesis and Insurrection] - that I'd re-watch a Star Trek movie...many times).
She's one of those currently "hot" writers. She's worked a lot in recent years and has a new contract for movies and TV. She still has a lot to prove though.
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I thought it weird at first that they were getting a script writer first before director but then I realised at least TWOK and maybe TMP did the same thing. I think it would be neat if it's just some small scale thing that they're not going to spend a bunch on but actually try and give it a go. Use the Discovery sets between filming seasons and just make a two hour film. The film itself might be hot garbage but I'm always interested just to see the stuff get made at least.
Imagine the fanrage if they did a Kelvin universe movie on the Strange New Worlds/Discovery sets. It makes perfect logical sense to do so (as it did with Star Trek V and VI) but fans would never get over it.
IMO, nothing is getting green lit or made until bad Robot n Kurtzman contract runs out. Emma Watts is not a fan seems to want to take ST on a better trajectory n sounds good to me.
From what I can tell Bad Robot's deal with Paramount/Star Trek is over. As for Kurtzman ( who is not a part of Bad Robot) his deal is a pretty new one, so you might have a long wait. He's the Trek czar for the foreseeable future. Y'all need to start typing Secret Hideout instead of Bad Robot.
What contract does Bad Robot have?
From what I can tell Bad Robot's deal with Paramount/Star Trek is over. As for Kurtzman ( who is not a part of Bad Robot) his deal is a pretty new one, so you might have a long wait. He's the Trek czar for the foreseeable future. Y'all need to start typing Secret Hideout instead of Bad Robot.
LOL, my bad low blood sugar....
Secret hideout, Kurtzman reportedly signed a 5 year extension in 2018, so 2023 expires. Not 100 on exact details, but have read/heard as long as a SH movie or show is in production contract gets automatically renewed or extended
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So technically less than 2 years, I can wait personally. MWV
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