Predictions for Star Trek under Skydance?

[The Old Mixer]

It's the power of nostalgia. Old stuff is always more popular than new stuff. What was once new becomes old.

Sometimes the newer thing is just that much crappier. I'm not particularly fond of the PT, but the ST made it look like Shakespeare by comparison.

 

[F. King Daniel]

For whatever it's worth, I was ambivalent on the OT, disliked the PT, and loved The Force Awakens and especially The Last Jedi. It defied expectations, wrecked the status quo and it's online reception became a dry run for Russian interference in American politics. Rise of the Skywalker was meh.

 

[Set Harth]

Rise of the Skywalker was meh.

It's possible that's what they originally had in mind, but the title they ultimately went with was The Rise of Skywalker.

Maybe they didn't want two films with the same acronym?

it's online reception became a dry run for Russian interference in American politics.

I don't even know what this means.

 

[johnjm22]

It's yet another TOS reboot.

Don't we already know this isn't what they're doing?

IIRC, this is the only new project that has been announced since Skydance took over:

New ‘Star Trek’ Movie In Works At Paramount From Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley

Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley plan to write, direct and produce a new 'Star Trek' movie.

deadline.com

sources say Goldstein and Daley’s film is a completely new take on the Star Trek universe and not connected to any previous or current television series, movie or prior movie development projects.

That pitch falls in line with Skydance founder David Ellison’s recent comments on an earnings call where he said the next Star Trek film would not be a sequel in the Chris Pine-led series but something different with new actors.

This actually sounds very good to me. Something NEW and Goldstein/Daley are pretty talented.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I don't even know what this means.

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi,' Russian Trolls, and the Disintegration of Discourse

A new study finds half of the negative tweets about the film were "likely politically motivated or not even human."

www.wired.com

It's what we see in all online political discourse today

 

[Set Harth]

Hearing that I don't "get" Star Wars is fairly common

there's a reason for that:

the Star Wars fan upset that the franchise's heroes now include (::clutches pearls:: ) women and people of color

The writer's just another disinformation troll trying to portray the film as groundbreaking in ways that it absolutely wasn't. But you didn't need Wired for that, you could get it right here on TrekBBS.

 

[Danja]

Will the show pivot away from "Woke" stuff. Maybe, new owners are more conservative, so will probably trend in that direction.

Trek has been "Woke" since 1966.

Will they give us classical exploration, fun, cerebral stuff like days of yor? maybe.

You're talking about fans who don't read, who equate anything "cerebral" with being "woke".

"Measure of a Man" would put these people to sleep.