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How About A TNG Reboot As The Next Movie?

Riley

Riley

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I'm calling it now: the next movie will be a reboot of TNG that isn't set in the future of the Abramsverse.

This would actually be an interesting way to go with the franchise. If the movies are successful, they can expand the 24th century every few years. A new series, meanwhile, could redefine the birth of the Federation, maybe beginning with the first true Federation starship with a crew of humans, Vulcans, Tellarites, and Andorians. That would also allow for the TOS era, which has been revisited more now than any other, to get a rest for a few years.

My cast for a TNG reboot film:

Picard: James McAvoy

Riker: Liam Hemsworth

Data: Charles Melton

Geordi: Kingsley Ben-Adir (not yet Chief Engineer, but assists the Chief.

Troi: Lilly Collins

Worf: Winston Duke (not yet Chief of Security)

Yar: Samara Weaving

Bev Crusher: Rachel Brosnahan

Wesley Crusher: Iain Armitage

Lt. Jae (helmsan): not sure yet, but it would be a cameo from a big-name actress

Q: Tom Hiddleston
 
Nerys Myk said:
Jean-Luc McClane disagrees
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Since this is a reboot, we'd be dealing with a slightly more energetic Picard, even though McAvoy is the same age Stewart was when he was cast as Picard. This version would have hair and wouldn't be the curmudgeon or preachy bore he was in later seasons of TNG. He'd be thoughtful and measured, but we'd buy him as a man of action because he's McAvoy is more youthful and interesting than Stewart.
 
The casual moviegoing audience in the 2020’s doesn’t give a shit about TNG, much less Temu versions of those characters. And if you’re going to fundamentally change Picard, then why not just make a new character?

I’m calling it now: the next movie will be a reboot of TOS. Not that I want that, but that’s probably what it will be. Because there’s very little they can do that would be in the public consciousness like TOS is, even after all this time. I’m certainly not expecting them to do something original.
 
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Riley said:
Since this is a reboot, we'd be dealing with a slightly more energetic Picard, even though McAvoy is the same age Stewart was when he was cast as Picard. This version would have hair and wouldn't be the curmudgeon or preachy bore he was in later seasons of TNG. He'd be thoughtful and measured, but we'd buy him as a man of action because he's McAvoy is more youthful and interesting than Stewart.
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Picard's baldness much like Xavier's is part of the character's iconography. As are his grand speeches.

Your proposed changes to the character would largely leave him unrecognisable to the audience that have heard of Picard and this using the character at all seems unnecessary. If your reboot of a popular and well known character is going to have nothing in common with the original version then why not just have an original character?

A reboot built on a foundation of dislike towards the original version is going to struggle with its appeal.
 
Riley said:
Since this is a reboot, we'd be dealing with a slightly more energetic Picard, even though McAvoy is the same age Stewart was when he was cast as Picard. This version would have hair and wouldn't be the curmudgeon or preachy bore he was in later seasons of TNG. He'd be thoughtful and measured, but we'd buy him as a man of action because he's McAvoy is more youthful and interesting than Stewart.
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Nope.

These kinds of notions aren't solutions. They're symptoms of the problem.
 
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A TNG reboot seems pointless, but having said that, I kind of would like Picard to be reinterpreted as a bit more quick to anger and action-oriented; the few times in TNG when Picard actually gets to do something other than monologue about how right he is are the times when Stewart seems to put the most into his performance.

It's a job for tie-in books though; I don't think you can recast the TNG crew because the characters aren't really transferable in the way that a character like, say, Sherlock Holmes is. The TNG crew are too thinly-drawn to exist outside the specific actors who played them.
 
Even if a hypothetical reboot of TNG were to happen, I imagine they'd probably try to have things set up more like the original plan for TNG, specifically with Picard as the intellectual leader and Riker as the action hero.

They're certainly not going to have Geordi as anything other than the chief engineer, as that is how everyone remembers the character. After all, the Abrams movies disregarded Sulu being an astrophysicist in WNMHGB and stuck him at the helm right away, I will not be surprised if SNW does the same thing. It's possible the first movie of a TNG reboot might start off with Tasha Yar as chief of security, though I imagine she'd be killed before the halfway point with Worf stepping in to take over security.
 
Starflight said:
A TNG reboot seems pointless, but having said that, I kind of would like Picard to be reinterpreted as a bit more quick to anger and action-oriented; the few times in TNG when Picard actually gets to do something other than monologue about how right he is are the times when Stewart seems to put the most into his performance.

It's a job for tie-in books though; I don't think you can recast the TNG crew because the characters aren't really transferable in the way that a character like, say, Sherlock Holmes is. The TNG crew are too thinly-drawn to exist outside the specific actors who played them.
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Agreed, though thinly-drawn characters might work better for a film series.
 
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Picard's baldness much like Xavier's is part of the character's iconography. As are his grand speeches.

Your proposed changes to the character would largely leave him unrecognisable to the audience that have heard of Picard and this using the character at all seems unnecessary. If your reboot of a popular and well known character is going to have nothing in common with the original version then why not just have an original character?

A reboot built on a foundation of dislike towards the original version is going to struggle with its appeal.
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I disagree; baldness is not a substantial aspect of either Charles Xavier or Jean-Luc Picard. I say that as someone who has read X-Men comics since the mid-80s (including back issues) and who has watched TNG dozens of times through the decades after watching it in first run. Both characters are themselves with or without hair, unlike Silver/Bronze Age Lex Luthor, whose entire (admittedly weak) reason for hating Superboy and becoming a criminal was because Superboy caused him to lose his hair.

I think a reboot also allows for some changes. McAvoy could have a short-cropped hairstyle rather than his full head of hair and still communicate Jean-Luc Picard in his performance.
 
Riley said:
I disagree; baldness is not a substantial aspect of either Charles Xavier or Jean-Luc Picard. I say that as someone who has read X-Men comics since the mid-80s (including back issues) and who has watched TNG dozens of times through the decades after watching it in first run. Both characters are themselves with or without hair, unlike Silver/Bronze Age Lex Luthor, whose entire (admittedly weak) reason for hating Superboy and becoming a criminal was because Superboy caused him to lose his hair.

I think a reboot also allows for some changes. McAvoy could have a short-cropped hairstyle rather than his full head of hair and still communicate Jean-Luc Picard in his performance.
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But hair is only one of several aspects you said you wanted to change about the Picard character. The changes you state essentially turns him into someone else. So unless the only thing you think an audience will care about is name recognition, it really doesn’t work.
 
Unless a studio is really committed, a TNG movie that actually reflects what TNG was is going to be tough in the current environment.

If the game is to simply use the TNG names in a naked attempt at a money grab, it won’t end well for the studio.
 
Dukhat said:
I’m calling it now: the next movie will be a reboot of TOS. Not that I want that, but that’s probably what it will be. Because there’s very little they can do that would be in the public consciousness like TOS is, even after all this time. I’m certainly not expecting them to do something original.
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They have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. Romulus blows up in 2387 and Zachary Quinto goes back in time...
 
The Wormhole said:
Even if a hypothetical reboot of TNG were to happen, I imagine they'd probably try to have things set up more like the original plan for TNG, specifically with Picard as the intellectual leader and Riker as the action hero.

They're certainly not going to have Geordi as anything other than the chief engineer, as that is how everyone remembers the character. After all, the Abrams movies disregarded Sulu being an astrophysicist in WNMHGB and stuck him at the helm right away, I will not be surprised if SNW does the same thing. It's possible the first movie of a TNG reboot might start off with Tasha Yar as chief of security, though I imagine she'd be killed before the halfway point with Worf stepping in to take over security.
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Why would you even bother with Tasha as a character in a movie reboot of TNG?
 
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