‘Star Trek 3′: Roberto Orci Wants to Direct
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Looks like Paramount wants to bury this thing with the obligatory anniversary movie and reboot it again a few year down the line.
Oops, my bad.
Except that "fans" sometimes think they know what's best for the franchise, when they really don't.
It's a very strong word. Think about it this way: if someone here called you psychotic, would you think they meant something else ?
Great going Paramount. Just proved beyond shadow of a doubt that you don't give a shit about Trek.
Come on, now. If they didn't care about Star Trek they would have let it die after Nemesis.
Hyperbole doesn't help your case.
He wouldn't be my first choice but I have no reason to think that a first time director can't be good. I'm sure he'll get plenty of help in his work and I'll wait to see how it all turns out.
Besides, getting Orci to direct is worth it just for all the hilarious stupidity that's going to follow on the internet. And it has already begun.
Besides, getting Orci to direct is worth it just for all the hilarious stupidity that's going to follow on the internet. And it has already begun.
All of these sound awesome. And I just realized I'm only halfway being facetious, which is the truly horrifying thing.
I'm thinking, halfway through, I start to cry and then I have to crawl out of the theater and I'm just no... no... I canna be a hater captain, I'm giving it all I've got! And it doesn't work. And I start to feel old, really old, used up and just over everything. And then I die.
Funny thing is, I actually think Orci directing means more of the kind of things dyed-in-the-wool fans of Star Trek want to see. And that fits in with a film released in time for the 50th Anniversary. I guess we'll see.
So. Fan wank X 10,000?
Seemed to work fine for Doctor Who's 50th.
Having read somewhere that he was resistant to bringing Khan back, that should give you some hope. Having John Harrison be Khan was exactly that. Darkness would've been better without all that baggage and just one rogue Starfleet operative against Admiral Marcus.
You give me hope!!!
You'll be alive and out of that chair yet.
You'll be alive and out of that chair yet.
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I think he's adorable, and I want to pinch his cheeks. Speaking of cheeks, I love your avatar, teacake.
I know, I can't stop staring at it.
This can't be true. The internet still functions. Clearly this is just some rumour that has fooled you all.
You're not wrong. But my initial feeling is that of disappointment. I disliked STID. I did feel slightly better about it on a second viewing but still didn't like it. It's a film done by committee and there are weird hangovers from other drafts still present in the final version. Maybe with Orci at the helm, Lindelof nowhere in sight (the person most thrown under the bus by everyone involved from the majority of fan's problems with the films, even if the people don't mean to throw him under there)* and Kurtzman separating we're likely to get a more focused film that doesn't feel so... compromised.
I was hoping for someone exciting and different from the Abrams crowd to play with the things Abrams & Co. put in place. The rumors of Joe Cornish really excited me. But this just seems like a way to give Orci his first directing credit while skirting Union rules about who can be called a director versus time on set and all the vagaries involved.
I try not to rip on the movie - and I did really love Trek 2009 - I was kind of hoping there'd be news that Trek XIII would feel a bit fresher but it seems we're going to get more of the same.
*Though, 2013 was oddly the year for people involved in films to separate themselves from unpopular portions of films they worked on, even when those films were unqualified successes that didn't need the justification. Why did Christopher Nolan go out of his way to say he disagreed with the ending of Man of Steel?
I'm just like what? British sea power WHAT? Okay Falklands but other than that anachronism what hey?
Oh and I love 2009 too, I'm basically in love with it. The next one lah de lah, not in love but hey it's a worthy addition etc..
I'm scared to death I will never love again.
Oh and I love 2009 too, I'm basically in love with it. The next one lah de lah, not in love but hey it's a worthy addition etc..
I'm scared to death I will never love again.
^ At the time I created the account, I was obsessively reading David Howarth's A Brief History of British Sea Power. Also the band of the same name had just come into existence.
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