Sci-fi creatives with clout?

[xortex]

So a young Captain Kirk tv series? Don't you think those guys need a break?, epecially since the same character is now totally different yet in competition with itself. JJ made Kirk a thug for the young wolf running girls but he is incompatable with the TOS Kirk. Yes, Batman and Sherlock Holmes went through many different versions and actors and stylistic reboots but they stayed basically the same. Trek '09 negates TOS. That's it's whole premise. Why would I want to go see that? let alone an arrogant punk on tv, the CW no less. I would think it's about respecting source material and honoring the creator of said material rather than ripping it off, but I guess I'm wrong. It's all about ripping it off.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

If GR was killed in a car crash say in 1964, would JJ Abrams be doing a space opera movie?

Suggesting temporal crimes and violence is a serious crime under Article 5 Section 2 of the Temporal Prime Directive. Article 6 defines the preconditioning and timeframes for serious crimes – pre-suggestions of assassinations of the person who popularized warp drive are prosecuted even in the timeframes before the TPD was passed. While this rule is criticised as a form of temporal thought crime and censorship, it has generally erased any speculations on alternative timelines from history.

I can't answer your questions without landing in temporal prison, but I'll just hint that people love a show with less continuity errors and more headpiece consistency.

 

[xortex]

Whereas JJ is rewarded with millions for erasing TOS from history. The forest through the trees.

 

[Bixby]

Yes, Batman and Sherlock Holmes went through many different versions and actors and stylistic reboots but they stayed basically the same.

Sorry, but Adam West's Batman is completely different from Michael Keaton's, or from George Clooney's, or from Christian Bale's. As well, the Batman played by Kevin Conroy is very different from the one on Super Friends or The BRAVE & The BOLD.
Sometimes all these characters share is the costume, gadgets and villains, but their portrayal of Batman is often miles apart...

 

[Dukhat]

So a young Captain Kirk tv series?

Who said anything about a "young" Captain Kirk?

 

[xortex]

Characters are drawn from the conception of their creator. Portrayels vary with different actors but the character never changes and shouldn't be rewritten differently or else create a new character - one that's your own. GR established Kirk. JJ is wiping not only history's slate clean but the conception and the nature of the character away as well. Can CBS do whatever they want with the character of Kirk like make hima drug dealer, or whatever. There may be no limit to how far they can grossly distort the characters and mythos ot Star Trek, whatever that is. If they can have a time travelling Shelock Holmes or whatever since Aurther Conan Doyle is long dead and not gonna really mind, unless of course his estate still cares about things that are worse than death, but even that is not a given, obviously.

 

[Skellington]

Ron or JJ could probably do something special with it, especially given the talent that the former would probably bring with him.

Slightly leftfield and technically off-topic: Aaron Sorkin. The West Wing was the best Star Trek show that never was and (after a fashion) a spiritual successor to the concept.

 

[xortex]

Ron or JJ could probably do something special with it, especially given the talent that the former would probably bring with him.

Slightly leftfield and technically off-topic: Aaron Sorkin. The West Wing was the best Star Trek show that never was and (after a fashion) a spiritual successor to the concept.

In the sense that Sorkin was to West Wing what Roddenberry was to Trek in theory, but what would JJ's West Wing be. Here JJ, mr. clout, here's West Wing, Go. We don't care, we don't care, or does he care if the president's gay with a limp now and incompetent. I don't know, maybe not, for the right sized check.

 

[Skellington]

^ There would be a lot more kidnappings and shootings, I guess.

(Ron Moore's West Wing would have Eddie Olmos and Mary McDonnell as the Bartletts, with Michael Hogan as Toby, Donnelly Rhodes as Leo and Jamie Bamber as that a-hole VP; or it's already been made in the form of 24.)

 

[xortex]

The AU West Wing where best friends turn out to be enemy assasins.

 

[Patrick O'Brien]

I read online that Bryan Fuller (writer for Voyager) and Bryan Singer (producer of House), are talking about teaming up to pitch a show.