Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley developing Star Trek reboot for Paramount
Problem is, I don’t feel franchises are a good place for auteur filmmakers to land, unless what they get to do is just an isolated movie or two, completely under their call. Studios these days are far too risk averse to let one director have that much power over an IP, unless it’s someone like Christopher Nolan.
Just no.
Remember all the hand wringing and frustration over swearing in Discovery and Picard? The commentary on wanting more science fiction writers? The frustration at characters feeling like 21st century evil humans? Tarantino would bring all of that and the kitchen sink.
I might attract directors and it would just piss off fans. Or expose hypocrisy and double standard because it's *insert director here* free pass bullshit.
Some people are talented enough to get a pass. Kurtzman might not get away with something like Academy but if Joss Whedon back in his prime had made a similar show people would love it. I mean the quality would have been even better but also because he already had the kind of love where people want him to bring his style and tastes to something.
And that's what I find to be a double standard.
Given the changes from TOS to TNG and viewer response, yes.
Right now TNG fans are starting to understand how TOS fans felt when the TNG error started and so many things were different and a lot of the aspects that they really enjoyed were changed.
And no, medical and police procedurals have changed over the years as well. Just watch a Perry Mason episode from the 1950s, and then watch either Matlock from the '80s or Law & Order from the 90s and 2000s.
And I enjoy SNW so much because while it isn't a absolute copy/remake of TOS, it manages to retain a lot of the elements I really enjoyed from TOS and present them in an entertaining fashion.
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Michael Chabon is a very well respected and high-profile writer that wrote the entirety of PICARD S1 with virtually no real creative restrictions and the support of Patrick Stewart directly.
What did you think of the results?
Generally I think you can say most TNG fans were somewhat disappointed.
My point? Getting high profile Riders and giving them creative freedom doesn't ensure the resulting product will be enjoyable to Star Trek franchise fans.
In fact I feel the idea that there's one perfect formula that will satisfy everyone is a fallacy.
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When something's has "always been done a way" accepting the new will be a challenge.
For that matter, Star Trek: Nemesis was an attempt to bring in a writer and a director with significant experience outside of Star Trek after relying on people who'd been involved with Star Trek for a long time. John Logan was a big deal as one of the writers of Gladiator.
The experiment is not generally considered a success.
It's my favorite season. And it's "writer".
Very much so.
Cop shows of every stripe are a perennial format. Trek is an anomaly that was successfully revived on TV once. Its fans won't let go, but most of the audience moved on twenty years ago.
That's what happens when you're dictating to your phone and you miss the check - although IDK why the speech to text algorithm chose that ; but fixed.
Skill issue, I would simply catch lightning in a bottle for the third time and re-enter the cultural zeitgeist.
Cure cancer while you're at it!
I don't think TNG was "lightning." Hard work, persistence, and twenty years of advance publicity.
Or do you mean SNW?
i still think that if they were going to make a star trek reboot
it should be set in a alternate universe
it should be set in a alternate universe
Ironically if they want to keep doing stuff with the canon I think they need to go to a alternate timeline were they can avoid the canon and just pick a choose stuff you sort of want to keep the same. If you go with a remake then none of it matters. Just take Trek elements and do whatever you want with them and create something that can't be connected to the old Prime timeline at all.
Paramount already tried that with the Kelvin movies.
