J.J. Abrams Admits to Being too Stupid to Make Star Trek XI!

[Jon1701]

Michael Bay could have done it.

I'm sure he could have figured how to get Shatner into that movie. In soft focus. In slow motion. With a sepia tint.

Go Bay!!!

 

[ITL]

Dude, are you purposely trying to condone this movie to a utterly complete failure before it is even intrudoced? I realize you are responding to something so it's not totally on you, but, come on... we never know, this could be a good film! Yes, it's too bad Shatner didn't get a chance to play in this film, but it's not Abrams fault, it's more or less Star Trek:Generation's fault.

Cogley's twisted brain throws up threads like these. But don't take them too seriously, and always remember...

He's a joker.
He's a toker.
He's a midnight smoker.
And in all probability gets his lovin' on the run.

(OK, he may or may not be a toker. But some do call him Mo-reece).

 

[Gepard]

^But is he the space cowboy? Because if he isn't we should ban him.

 

[ITL]

Of course he is. We all are.

 

[Space Cowboy]

I know I am.

 

[ITL]

Nice!

 

[Haggis and tatties]

As much as i love the shat i love my TOS era more, so although i would have accepted him appearing in the movie i can also accept that he wont be in it, TOS era will live and will once again kick start the whole Trek franchise via this movie...

History will repeat itself.

 

[Balthier the Great]

Even if his character didn't die onscreen, wouldn't his character be too old?

Whose to say that traveling through the Nexus would of kept him alive anyway.

I thought there was no time in the nexus, kinda an enternal now.

But there's no reaason Shat couldn't play a different character. I'd like to see him play his own grandfather or something. It wouldn't be cameo, it wouldn't be ressurection, no time travel, and it wouldn't be campy at all.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Shatner had the chance to play Kirk again and blew it off because of ego, including unreasonable screentime demands and likely unreasonable paycheck demands. This is a surprise. It's not like he did this when offered and episode of Enterprise. Seriously, fuck him. Captain Kirk now looks a lot like Chris Pine to me.

 

[CaptainWacky]

From this interview:

http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2008/09/jj-abrams-interview.php

It was very tricky. We actually had written a scene with him in it that was a flashback kind of thing, but the truth is, it didn't quite feel right. The bigger thing was that he was very vocal that he didn't want to do a cameo. We tried desperately to put him in the movie, but he was making it very clear that he wanted the movie to focus on him significantly, which, frankly, he deserves. The truth is, the story that we were telling required a certain adherence to the Trek canon and consistency of storytelling. It's funny -- a lot of the people who were proclaiming that he must be in this movie were the same people saying it must adhere to canon. Well, his character died on screen. Maybe a smarter group of filmmakers could have figured out how to resolve that.

(Emphasis mine)

Well, there you have it folks. The writers weren't smart enough to make this movie. We've known it all along, but now Abrams confirms it.

This is no doubt an attempt to distance himself from the project before it gets released next Summer.

This also confirms reports that the movie was pushed back from its original December '08 release date while the writing staff took college extension classes, hoping desperately to get smarter in time to save this movie.

Well, it must not have worked.

No wonder Shatner passed.

It seems unlikely that an actor of Shatner's calibre would be willing to speak lines like: "Me am KiRK. ME am BAck fROM dead. SURPRISE!"

Good on you, Shatner. That was a close one.

Maybe the next movie will be written by a group of people who are truly smart and talented. Like the fans.

We can only hope.

This shit, I cant' believe this shit, I knew Abrams SUCKED when I heard he made Mission Impossible which had TOM CREEPY CRUISE in it so it must have sucked even though I haven't seen it but man I didn't know he sucked this much, he should hand over the DIRECTOR'S CHAIR to someone who is better than him like UWE BOLL or even (chortle chortle) GEORGE LU-CASH becasue they would make a better movie than mister Sidney Bristow!!!

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

I can't tell who's serious or not in this thread (except Sam of course...).

That's half the fun!

He's a joker.

Guilty.

He's a toker.

No drugs for Cogley. (Clearly, I don't need them.) But I do occasionally drink like a fish.

He's a midnight smoker.

Only the occasional cigar. Denny Crane!

And in all probability gets his lovin' on the run.

Foshizzle, my nizzle.

^But is he the space cowboy? Because if he isn't we should ban him.

I like to think of myself of more of a Space Indian. (Which probably explains why I keep getting banned.)

 

[the quickening]

Thank you Mr. Shatner for your inflated ego! If not for it, you might have actually appeared in this movie, something I absolutely did not want!

 

[M'Sharak]

(OK, he may or may not be a toker. But some do call him Mo-reece).

Only because he speaks of the Pompatus of Love.

 

[Mordock]

Shatner had the chance to play Kirk again and blew it off because of ego, including unreasonable screentime demands and likely unreasonable paycheck demands. This is a surprise. It's not like he did this when offered and episode of Enterprise. Seriously, fuck him.

I don't know about that. We may roll our eyes at the conditions Shatner placed on his involvement in the movie, but it's probably not sensible to begrudge Shatner the desire to do so. He's got no duty to play Kirk.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

(OK, he may or may not be a toker. But some do call him Mo-reece).

Only because he speaks of the Pompatus of Love.

Even though I was a bit of a Steve Miller Band fan in the 1970s, I still can't read that line without hearing Homer Simpson singing it in my head.

 

[THE CHEBB]

All they needed to do was fire an inverse-phased chroniton pulse at the script. Everyone knows that.

Bwahahahaha!

 

[ITL]

Only because he speaks of the Pompatus of Love.

I saw the Pompatus of Love, once. Just a glimpse. It was pert and tight. It did a little wiggle.

Even though I was a bit of a Steve Miller Band fan in the 1970s, I still can't read that line without hearing Homer Simpson singing it in my head.

Yeah, me too. That was so great.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Cogley's twisted brain throws up threads like these. But don't take them too seriously, and always remember...

He's a joker.
He's a toker.
He's a midnight smoker.
And in all probability gets his lovin' on the run.

(OK, he may or may not be a toker. But some do call him Mo-reece).

Yeah, but Cogley get REALLLY pissed off if you call him 'Wilmer'.

 

[M'Sharak]

Nice.

 

[ITL]

Well, that one went right over my head.