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OT: blurb about the new movie

JWolf

JWolf

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Star Trek Ready for Blastoff with Castin' of Kirk and Bones Picking

As previewed last week, Chris Pine (Just My Luck, Smokin' Aces) has signed on to play James Tiberius Kirk in J.J. Abrams' increasingly anticipated Star Trek feature film. The future Enterprise crew is now complete, with the further addition of country singer The Lord of the Rings' Karl Urban as Leonard "Bones/I'm a Doctor, Not a Bricklayer" McCoy.

With shooting to begin next month, now we just need a script that sings and uniforms that aren't, like, absolutely goofy.
 
I have to ask: What does this have to do with Trek Literature. Yes, your title says OT, but we have an entire forum devoted for the new movie. Unless this thread has some connection to Trek Literature, then I don't see the need for this thread.
 
Just wait, someone will ask so now that we have a face for Kirk and Bones, will they be used on future TOS books?
 
Okay, to try and come up with something new and relevant to this forum - any word on who will do the novelisation for XI?

(Mental image of all you guys drawing lots for it!)
 
I recommend paint guns at 20 paces.

(Makes sure to unload Dayton's while he's not looking. No sense giving a Marine an unfair advantage . . . when I'm trying to win.) :devil:
 
Captaindemotion said:
Okay, to try and come up with something new and relevant to this forum - any word on who will do the novelisation for XI?

(Mental image of all you guys drawing lots for it!)
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Not me. Not even if I lost a bet.

I could whip out my handy-dandy rant about how Karl Urban is 100 times more badass than Eric Bana will ever be.
 
JWolf said:
country singer The Lord of the Rings' Karl Urban
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Karl Urban is a New Zealand actor ("The Lord of the Rings"). Keith Urban is the country singer who's married to Nicole Kidman.

Karl Urban is the one who's been cast as McCoy.
 
I have to wonder what "country singer" means for someone from another country. And is Keith Rural a city singer?
 
^^I'd originally typed "Australian country singer", but Keith Urban doesn't sing much Australian country. I also tried "US-based country singer". I ended up just doing the "husband of Nicole". Poor ol' Keith; he was essentially unknown Down Under till he'd been in the US for a long time and started winning US country awards, but he's sealed his Aussie fame by marrying "our Nicole".
 
I could guess Peter David? Greg Cox?

Those are the only two that I know of (no research done) who have done novelizations for movies and who have also done Star Trek novels. Novelizations aren't usually my favorite types of books to read. Just my opinion, but they usually aren't as good as the movie. Using an author experienced with ST would go a great deal to buck this trend.

I'm sure most any existing ST novelist would do a great job and be able to capture the correct ST feel. I just mention these two because they have previous experience working from the limited materials available before a movie is out.
 
Vonda McIntyre and Jeanne Dillard both have written novelizations and ST novels. I wouldn't be surprised if Dillard got the job again, since she's done the last six. However, they may want someone who's written for TOS more recently.
 
LoneStranger said:
I could guess Peter David? Greg Cox?

Those are the only two that I know of (no research done) who have done novelizations for movies and who have also done Star Trek novels.
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Don't forget KRAD, who's done a number of movie novelizations.
 
OOC does Pocket Books have the rights to the movies as I thought Paramount sold just their tv division to CBS, or was it everything?
 
Christopher said:
LoneStranger said:
I could guess Peter David? Greg Cox?

Those are the only two that I know of (no research done) who have done novelizations for movies and who have also done Star Trek novels.
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Don't forget KRAD, who's done a number of movie novelizations.
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KRAD would actually be my first choice. His adaptation of Serenity was top-notch. :thumbsup:
 
I could guess Peter David? Greg Cox?

Those are the only two that I know of (no research done) who have done novelizations for movies and who have also done Star Trek novels.
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Well, the obvious person you've left off your list is J.M. Dillard, who novelized, y'know, the last six Star Trek films. :lol:

Other Trek novelists who've done movie novelizations include (just off the top of my head) Dave Stern, John Vornholt, L.A. Graf, Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jeff Mariotte, Christie Golden, Michael Jan Friedman, and some hack with four initals. :D Not to mention Vonda N. McIntyre, who novelized the three Trek movies prior to the one Dillard did.
 
TerriO said:
The gorgeousness on the right is Karl Urban:

Link because the image is too big to inline.
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I'll be in my bunk. :drool:


KRAD said:
Other Trek novelists who've done movie novelizations include (just off the top of my head) Dave Stern, John Vornholt, L.A. Graf, Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jeff Mariotte, Christie Golden, Michael Jan Friedman, and some hack with four initals. :D Not to mention Vonda N. McIntyre, who novelized the three Trek movies prior to the one Dillard did.
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I'd love to see Vonda return, but that's all but guaranteed not to happen, sadly. :(

Of the list, my top choices (not that it will influence a darn thing) are L.A. Graf, KRAD, and Vonda McIntyre. I'm not sure about Dillard.

Her novelizations of V and VI were pretty well done, but after that, she's gone downhill - in my opinion. Even the one good TNG film (First Contact) had a hack book.

Gods, her STV book was incredible, so wonderful, and the novelization of STVI was probably her best Trek work. Now, I am specifically pointing out STV because she was able to take a pretty lousy script and turn it into a golden novel. She had equally lousy scripts for Insurrection and Nemesis, and wasn't able to do a thing with either of them.

There's a couple months before a writer is chosen for the novelization. We'll see who gets it. Just for Majel's sake don't put it out in that blasted hardcover version for the first printing.
 
Csalem said:
OOC does Pocket Books have the rights to the movies as I thought Paramount sold just their tv division to CBS, or was it everything?
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I think that theoretically, Paramount could've taken the movie rights to another publisher, but I'm pretty sure they chose to keep working with Pocket. After all, Pocket has over a quarter-century of experience with Trek tie-ins, so why go with anyone else?
 
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