Paramount asked him to do it. That's the biggest qualification.
Film Journal interview with J.J. Abrams concerning Trek
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Pretty much. A wise business decision as, regardless of one's individual opinion of his body of work, no one can deny it has been very profitable and we all know Paramount isn't running a charity.
RobertScorpio
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Good point. And I think it is safe to say that if he some how Fs this movie up, and you never know he may, then we wont see STAR TREK again for quite sometimes...
I remember, as I am sure most of you do, all the great 'buzz' coming from the last movie from so called 'insiders' and..well... I know Nemesis has its fans, but I think we were all sold down the river on that one. John Logan? Yeah...right.
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I said it was off the top o' my head !!! But you may be right in any case about your nuts observation...you're very astute aren't you...!
Ok this should rile you all even further...how about Nimoy directing?
Who was the poster here who, with zero filmmaking experience and zero professional writing experience and absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment industry, said he could make a great (and true) Trek movie if you gave him the same amount of money?
I could do five movies for the budget they're putting out for this piece of crap. But then, I also know better than to direct them myself (for one thing, I hate directing; makes me an even bigger arrogant asshole than I already am) and know that if you're doing what is supposed to be a prequel to something, you'd better have encyclopedic knowledge of the thing you're making a prequel of. With half the writing staff and director falling miserably short of that mark, you're already begging for a disaster.
For a director, I'm thinking Ron Howard. Besides, being an Oscar winning director, he's also steeped in how a series is made, plus he's a major league Trekkie in his own right.
For the music, you can't go wrong with John Williams.
Not sure who'd be the scriptwriter, but I'd want some serious Trek veterans on the team, especially Dorothy Fontana, David Gerrold, the Reeves-Stevens', and Bjo Trimble.
As for production design, well, let's just say that most of them are regular posters here. Two of them go by the names of Probert and Sternbach. I'd also have a chat with John Byrne, he's doing some pretty nifty stuff with his "Crew" miniseries.
The overally approach would be along the lines of how Richard Donner did the first Superman movie. Specifically, don't try and be smarter than the material. It has its own reality, its own rules, and you have to buy into that reality or the whole thing just breaks down into parody.
As for the canon issue, you can't "honor canon" at the same time you're pissing on it. Either stick to it religiously (it's a big budget movie with several months of run up, not a rushed weekly television episode, so there's no excuse to screw anything up), or just admit up front you're doing a reboot. Trying to have it both ways only cheeses off the people who care about these things and confuses the uninitiated, neither of which is conducive to building a larger audience.
At least you got one thing right...
[I'm really sorry, but someone just had to say it and, unfortunately, it was me who had to shoulder this burden.]
Recent record of significant financial success. That's the only qualification that counts in Hollywood.
We're just lucky he seems to care about making Star Trek consistent and reasonably true to its legacy. He could make a big hit movie without bothering with such things at all.
True. The suits would probably have been glad to give it to Michael Bay or Brett Ratner.
I've seen parodies that were closer to that mark than what this mess is looking to be.
I've seen parodies that were closer to that mark than what this mess is looking to be.
I like pie.
I've seen parodies that were closer to that mark than what this mess is looking to be.
Uh...you've actually watched TOS, haven't you?
Which they luckily aren't doing.
The franchise has been a sinner for 43 years now!
or C.) You let them do it their way and you determine for yourself what it is after you've seen it. However, if you have no plans to see it, then your "opinion" doesn't carry much weight does it?
The only thing holding some fans back from going will be their own pre/mis-conceptions about the film.
So if I were to say that I'm a tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood, that would just be my opinion too?
So if I were to say that I'm a tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood, that would just be my opinion too?
I'M CAPTAIN KIRK!
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