How would you guys do a Star Trek animated movie

[USS Pertinax]

Star Trek had the opportunity to be an ongoing ‘big cinema brand’, the franchise also still has the potential to be one. The JJ-Verse movies have stalled though for some reason. A Prodigy movie would be a good launch pad in the interim for a new and younger audience. Such a movie could be advertised in a way that would not rely on anyone having to have heard of the television toon which the movie is based on. All the CGI assets already exist, though they may need to be upscaled for cinema screens.

TBH, Star Trek needs a big reset button pressing again IMHO. Such a reset could be achieved by a temporal intervention to prevent the destruction of the Romulan sun/Hobus star in the late 24th century. Such a reset movie would put the Star Trek Universe 'back to normal' and could bookend the JJ-verse with one final big screen adventure. Because time travel is involved in this movie, the film could be made in to a mega crossover event with characters from the 24th century. They could even bring William Shatner back as an old man version of Christopher Pine.

There are just 3 movies in the Kelvinverse. Why end it?

 

[Timofnine]

There are just 3 movies in the Kelvinverse. Why end it?

Because Star Trek has become too confusing and over saturated with too many timelines and too much fragmentation, both in its world building and in a production sense. The movie series in particular seems to be ‘coasting’ and stalling, showing that perhaps it is in need of reinvigorating and energizing once more. A franchise reset, which can still use the JJ-verse crew in a similar way as to how Star Trek: Generations mixed crews, would be the perfect solution to soft reboot the franchise ready for a new 25th century continuation series which goes back to the basics of what Star Trek was in the 1990’s. If Strange New Worlds can revisit 60’s Trek, I do not see why a true continuation of 90’s Trek cannot be fair game for source material and inspiration for a new streaming show or movie series.

Whilst this reset movie is being made, they can fire out a Prodigy movie to help reintroduce a new audience to the later 24th/early 25th century characters and settings such as Janeway.

 

[HotRod]

A Prodigy movie would be a bomb of epic proportions.

 

[Timofnine]

A Prodigy movie would be a bomb of epic proportions.

A Prodigy movie would just be like making an expensive feature length episode. I am sure that such a movie would be slightly more expensive than normal, but as long as it makes somewhere in the region of $10-$20 million domestically, I see such a Prodigy movie as being viable as the returns would be good enough to justify the features production costs. This is *not* taking worldwide box office numbers in to account, as a Prodigy movie would definitely be a hit on the International market, in particular South America.

 

[USS Pertinax]

Because Star Trek has become too confusing and over saturated with too many timelines and too much fragmentation, both in its world building and in a production sense. The movie series in particular seems to be ‘coasting’ and stalling, showing that perhaps it is in need of reinvigorating and energizing once more. A franchise reset, which can still use the JJ-verse crew in a similar way as to how Star Trek: Generations mixed crews, would be the perfect solution to soft reboot the franchise ready for a new 25th century continuation series which goes back to the basics of what Star Trek was in the 1990’s. If Strange New Worlds can revisit 60’s Trek, I do not see why a true continuation of 90’s Trek cannot be fair game for source material and inspiration for a new streaming show or movie series.

Whilst this reset movie is being made, they can fire out a Prodigy movie to help reintroduce a new audience to the later 24th/early 25th century characters and settings such as Janeway.

I think it is much more workable to tighten the budget Creator style and make Kelvinverse 4. Don't aim for a billion, more like 700 or 600 mil.

 

[HotRod]

A Prodigy movie would just be like making an expensive feature length episode. I am sure that such a movie would be slightly more expensive than normal, but as long as it makes somewhere in the region of $10-$20 million domestically, I see such a Prodigy movie as being viable as the returns would be good enough to justify the features production costs. This is *not* taking worldwide box office numbers in to account, as a Prodigy movie would definitely be a hit on the International market, in particular South America.

Paramount is not going to make a feature film of a product they couldn't manage to make successful on television. Regardless of the cost. Nevermind what it would cost them to market the bloody thing. A Star Trek film making numbers as low as you listed, would be the absolute final nail if the coffin for theatrical Trek films for the foreseeable future.

I like the show well enough, but it is not successful.

 

[Timofnine]

I meant $10-$20,000,000 on opening weekend.

 

[USS Pertinax]

I meant $10-$20,000,000 on opening weekend.

Who is going to come out for this?

It is too high minded for anime maniacs,not Treky enough which is understandable, you start with a rogue crew to get zoomers, also Archer probably is more known than that Talaxian whatever leading dude.

 

[Arpy]

I'd put the people who did the Lego movie on it. Ideally partner with Lego to do an entire line featured in the movie. Those guys seem to have a knack for movies both kids and adults can enjoy.

Or something else skewed toward younger kids, 5-12 age range, that want to watch the same thing again and again. Something that their parents wouldn't mind plopping them in front of again and again. As they grow up, they get interested in the rest of the franchise and voila, a new generation of Trek fans to replace the aging elders slowly warping beyond the rim. Maybe partner with Disney's PIXAR or Universal Pictures Illumination on it in the way Trek partnered with Wars' Industrial Light and Magic for effects in the past if that's at all comparable. But you wouldn't want to skimp on this outing and shoot yourself in the foot doing it on the cheap and then failing to reach the new audience used to more polished fare and not itself looking to discover Trek.

That's another thing. The Lego people could do tongue in cheek and make it fun. Kirk and Spock and Picard and other canon characters teaming up for a fun mission. For a Pixar or other studio I think the goal would be to just straight up do a child's version of Star Trek. Lovingly and without too much emphasis to canon the kids have no connection to, while ideally staying within it for the parents that might. Maybe something about Let Me Help being more important than I Love You...maybe a Klingon's child is plenty loved by their dad but he doesn't seem to want to help them become all that they can be. Enter the kids of the Federation visitors. They race to get back before the next stardate. But not before enemies become friends and maybe share a kiss after figuring out the ancient alien mystery.

 

[somebuddyX]

I'd do a story about a freighter crew who have to go on a mission to take an energy reactor to a planet and end up getting mixed up in a series of events. There's the Vulcan captain, a pacifist Klingon, a bunch of other randos and the only military officer is a Cardassian glinn on loan from their government.