Shatners next Trek Project?

[Saul]

Anyone wanna spill the beans on this?

http://trekweb.com/stories.php?aid=49a755adaaa33&topBrowse=all

IGN: So what's next for you?

SHATNER: I've got four comic books coming out. Four lines. A remake of Star Trek and three others that'll be out through Blue Water. They're all sci-fi. One's more horror than sci-fi.

then today on John Eaves Blog
http://johneaves.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/trekking-with-stuart-blair/#comments

I got a call from Shatner On Friday and he wants to design a fleet of new spaceships for something he has going on, so I am meeting with his group today!!!

So is this a sequel to Academy series? A reboot? a Comic?
Do tell kindly please.

 

[William Leisner]

Well, there was this interview our own Allyn Gibson did with WS a couple weeks back, if you need more tea leaves to read.

If I had to guess (and I do, since I have no actual facts), I'd say that "a remake of Star Trek" means an original space opera in the Roddenberry mold. (Or, a rejected Trek concept with the serial numbers filed off.)

 

[Christopher]

I think it's probable that Shatner misspoke and meant to say TekWar rather than Star Trek. That is one of the four properties he's developing for Bluewater Productions. Two of the others are based on his Quest for Tomorrow and Man O' War novel series, and the fourth is an original creation. None of the three named series has any horror elements as far as I can tell, so the one that's "more horror than sci-fi" would probably be the fourth, unnamed series, thus ruling out the possibility that it's a "remake of Star Trek" in any way.

The spaceship designs Eaves mentioned might be for the QfT or MoW comics, since they're both space-based.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I do know what the fourth series is, as Shatner gave me great material in our interview about it, but because Bluewater is keeping it under wraps until Free Comic Book Day, I didn't use any of it.

I'd concur with Christopher's analysis that the ship designs are for either QoT or Man O' War.

 

[Lonemagpie]

The spaceship designs Eaves mentioned might be for the QfT or MoW comics, since they're both space-based.

I don't know who's doing the art on Man O War, but there's no John Eaves art in Quest For Tomorrow that I know of.

 

[Dayton Ward]

Shatner's next project is a one-man stage production of Julius Ceasar, with Shatner dividing the roles between the personas of James Kirk, T.J. Hooker, Walter Bascom and Denny Crane.

Yes, even the female roles.

 

[Stevil2001]

I'd watch that.

Repeatedly.

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ I was thinking specifically of you when I wrote that.

 

[Stevil2001]

Heck, I'd probably do my dissertation on it.

 

[ClayinCA]

Shatner's next project is a one-man stage production of Julius Ceasar, with Shatner dividing the roles between the personas of James Kirk, T.J. Hooker, Walter Bascom and Denny Crane.

Yes, even the female roles.

But...wouldn't he have to stab himself in the back??

 

[Paris]

Shatner's next project is a one-man stage production of Julius Ceasar, with Shatner dividing the roles between the personas of James Kirk, T.J. Hooker, Walter Bascom and Denny Crane.

Yes, even the female roles.

But...wouldn't he have to stab himself in the back??

He's done it before

 

[Dayton Ward]

But...wouldn't he have to stab himself in the back??

Denny Crane.

 

[KimMH]

Isn't it enough we've had to suffer through his acting? He is entertaining enough being himself but it's seems difficult for him to protray anyone besides himself. His Ashes to Eden is the only TrekLit I ever tried to return. I'm, a busy person and unwilling to waste another of my weekends wading through his slosh.

 

[William Leisner]

Isn't it enough we've had to suffer through his acting? He is entertaining enough being himself but it's seems difficult for him to protray anyone besides himself. His Ashes to Eden is the only TrekLit I ever tried to return. I'm, a busy person and unwilling to waste another of my weekends wading through his slosh.

Fortunately, the Mandatory Shatner Reading Act of 2008 failed to pass last year.

 

[KimMH]

^^^ Thank the Great Bird . . .

 

[JWolf]

Isn't it enough we've had to suffer through his acting? He is entertaining enough being himself but it's seems difficult for him to protray anyone besides himself. His Ashes to Eden is the only TrekLit I ever tried to return. I'm, a busy person and unwilling to waste another of my weekends wading through his slosh.

Fortunately, the Mandatory Shatner Reading Act of 2008 failed to pass last year.

But in order to be allowed to see the new Trek movie, you have to prove you've read Shatner's Academy book by taking a 30 minute written test.

 

[KimMH]

^^^ saw the acedemy book in the bookstore - poor lonely thing - I actually thought about it . . . it is TrekLit after all - having it in the house would be like having Star Trek lunch boxes in the house but not actually used for lunch. oh wait - I do . . .