TNG probably needs this, or else it will risk being forgotten.
Is a modern-day big screen reboot of TNG inevitable?
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TNG probably needs this, or else it will risk being forgotten.
If the new series is a large success like TOS and TNG were back in their time, I have a feeling they'll move straight from TOS to ST17 films. I'm not so sure of a TNG reboot anymore.
I doubt that would happen. CBS owns all future Trek shows that will be made, and Paramount owns all future Trek movies. Two different departments own Trek now.
CBS owns all shows not just future shows. They can license the characters out to Paramount for future films if they want. Same thing as Paramount using the TOS characters in the last three movies.
I don't think you could reboot TNG in the same way as TOS. The tone would be different and the characters wouldn't make sense acting out what we saw in XI and XII. I also think it would be a bit strange if they just went through the Star Trek franchise rebooting everything in turn. Eventually fans would get tired of seeing their old favourites butchered and demand something new, whilst casual viewers would find the expanded universe too confusing and convoluted - which is what the reboot was supposed to fix.
Realistic? We weren't watching the same show.
Well, much more realistic than TOS, anyhow.
My own suspicion is that TPTB would simply reboot/recast TOS again. The TOS characters are most iconic of Trek, and therefore the most (likely) profitable.
Or so the suits would reason.
Or so the suits would reason.
I imagine that some younger fans will someday become upset with another TOS reboot/recasting. Everybody knows that the real Star Trek featured Pine and Quinto.
Where in TOS did we see them running frantically and jumping off of cliffs, hanging off of balconies with one hand, skydiving, falling 30' into a volcano, zipping through space with a jetpack, etc.? We did see Kirk read the Declaration of Independence, Uhura push some buttons, a remote-controlled Spock... You know what TOS was? Dialogue. Lots of dialogue with an occasional fight scene. Anyway, there's nothing odd about TNG characters getting the same style of reboot.
I think you're watching TOS through your nuTrek goggles again, or something.
I find it curious now that the Chekov role will not be recast, according to J.J. Abrams.
Suddenly, Chekov is no longer "actor-interchangeable"?
He sure was seven years ago, along with the rest of the characters!
I doubt the general audience (who pays the bills) would notice the change. But, golly, the "Kelvin timeline" fans sure would!
Let's not upset the Kelvin fans by recasting; okay to upset the TOS fans, though.
My opinion.
Suddenly, Chekov is no longer "actor-interchangeable"?
He sure was seven years ago, along with the rest of the characters!
I doubt the general audience (who pays the bills) would notice the change. But, golly, the "Kelvin timeline" fans sure would!
Let's not upset the Kelvin fans by recasting; okay to upset the TOS fans, though.
My opinion.
Not the same situation at all.
The original TOS crew had already been retired four movies previously and the TOS movies were no longer a going concern, so it's not like they were ever going to bring back the original cast anyway. And of course you recast the parts when you reboot a venerable old property. New STAR TREK, new actors . . . what's to be upset about? (Says this lifelong TOS fan.)
But replacing Yeltsin in mid-series, in the light of such an unusual tragic event, is very different from hiring a new actor for new version of a classic show.
These are special circumstances. It's not about Chekov; it's about Yeltsin.
When they reboot STAR TREK again, then we can get a new Chekov.
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He'd never do it, and rightly so.
It's one thing to be type cast. It's another to be typecast as another actor.
It's one thing to be type cast. It's another to be typecast as another actor.
This complaint makes no sense.
But who says the old favorites have to be "butchered"? At the risk of sounding like a broken record, remakes and reboots are not the devil. A new interpretation of a classic character or series does no harm to the original and, at best, can succeed as a rewarding new take on the material.
And one generation's nostalgia does not trump all future treatments of the material. None of this stuff should be treated as sacred or set in stone.
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