That is Orci's official Twitter account, yes.
Roberto Orci
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“Chase for doohickey against Annunaki to reset back to prime timeline. Theme: The Last temptation of Kirk And Spock”
“It’s the temptation. Restore Vulcan, Kirks Father, and Spock’s mother? Or play the hand they are dealt”
“Only with help of Prime Kirk, who they meet on the adventure, can they solve the dilemma.“
I don't see, how that wouldn't have turned into a mess. So I am glad, that Paramount hired different people and made Beyond.
I still have a question though about Orci's script. Does anyone have an idea, how it would have ended? Someone on another site said, that Orci gave away the ending of his script in an interview long ago. But I don't know which one and if that is really true.
“It’s the temptation. Restore Vulcan, Kirks Father, and Spock’s mother? Or play the hand they are dealt”
“Only with help of Prime Kirk, who they meet on the adventure, can they solve the dilemma.“
I don't see, how that wouldn't have turned into a mess. So I am glad, that Paramount hired different people and made Beyond.
I still have a question though about Orci's script. Does anyone have an idea, how it would have ended? Someone on another site said, that Orci gave away the ending of his script in an interview long ago. But I don't know which one and if that is really true.
Thanks.
Rhymes with Horsey. Orci the Horsey, has a nice ring to it.
Similarities between his and Jung/Pegg's scripts, even though nobody involved in the latter had read the former's. According to Orci on Twitter, both involved a chase for a McGuffin and a swarm of alien ships.
But why did that credit disappear in the subsequent trailers and the actual movie?
It was talked about on Trekmovie.com, the credit was initially given due to unintentional similarities. Orci himself said in their comments that he, Payne and McKay shouldn't be credited since Pegg, Jung and Lin has never seen his script. I guess he got his wish.
Writing credit in Hollywood movies is a really weird and complicated thing. It doesn't make much sense to me.
Writing credit in Hollywood movies is a really weird and complicated thing. It doesn't make much sense to me.
They probably credited Orci, Payne and McKay because they hadn't been through Writer's Guild arbitration yet, and they were covering their bases just in case the trio got awarded credit. They had kind of the opposite situation back with TUC, where the initial trailers and posters credited Leonard Nimoy alone for the story, but the guild forced the studio to give Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal co-story credit despite not one story element nor line of dialogue from their draft making it to the finished product.
But yeah, the whole arbitration process is so notoriously screwy that if anything, I was actually expecting that Pegg and Jung would be the ones who were denied credit.
But yeah, the whole arbitration process is so notoriously screwy that if anything, I was actually expecting that Pegg and Jung would be the ones who were denied credit.
I really do find it hard to tell the difference. Pegg doesn't appear to have changed the ethos of Beyond at all. Stylistically it's inseparable from the other two.
Was there a single lens flare in Beyond?
Not that I saw. And, honestly, I missed them.
Konner and Rosenthal got story credit because when Nick Meyer met with them at the request of Sid Ganis (who was doing a political power play as part of his efforts to replace Frank Mancuso), he handed over the detailed, beat-by-beat story outline that he had hashed out with Nimoy at Meyer's beach house. But that was just several pages in a notebook. Konner and Rosenthal came back a few weeks later with a story for the movie that basically plagiarized the entire outline that Nimoy and Meyer had written, they just changed the wording, and handed it in as an official document with their names on it -- which carries a lot of weight with the WGA. So the initial arbitration ruling was "Story by Konner and Rosenthal, screenplay by Meyer and Flinn." Nimoy hit the roof, called his lawyer and told him to inform all parties that they had a weekend to resolve it, or else he was going to personally sue the WGA, Paramount, Konner, Rosenthal and Meyer. So at the eleventh hour, they were able to reach agreement on "Story by Nimoy, Konner and Rosenthal, screenplay by Meyer and Flinn."
Same goes for acting credits, especially when it comes to determining the actor's billing order in the credits.
I spotted one. I think I saw somewhere that Beyond has a grand total of three or four lens flares, a welcome breath of fresh air compared to Abrams having three dozen of them going off simultaneously in one shot.
I did the same until last year. lol.
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