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Shatner STILL wants to play Kirk..

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Skywalker said:
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That's an ironic choice of video for this, given that Harrison Ford still seems to want to play Indy.
MFB said:
Shatner may be perfectly fit but Prime-Kirk is in really bad shape since 1994. ;)
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Too soon. Too soon. ;)
King Daniel Beyond said:
Nice catch. I knew something was off.
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Just ONE thing? :p
 
Y'know, with the right script, it could be magic. Something philosophical and reflexive and bittersweet.
 
He can always be grandpa Tiberius George Kirk III growing weed on his Iowa farm for the Andorian market
 
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My personal objection to Shatner playing Kirk again is, I don't think he can do it anymore. Shatner has become too much of a personality rather than an actor, such that if he did show up onscreen, I would think "Shatner!" rather than "Kirk!"

It say a lot that when I hear "Kirk", I think of Chris Pine now.
 
KennyB said:
Isn't it a Fleet Captain?
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Yeah, Kirk was a Fleet Captain, Scotty and McCoy were both full Commanders, and the bridge was clearly refit. That sketch (representing "Episode 81") takes place at the tail-end of the five-year mission, after some promotions have been handed out, but before the end of the mission.

Ensign Chekov's presence doesn't jibe well with The Animated Series though, which must occur before Kirk's promotion to Fleet Captain.
 
CRM-114 said:
It say a lot that when I hear "Kirk", I think of Chris Pine now.
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Can't say the same, Kirk is either Shatner on TV, or Shatner in the movies.

When I think of Pine, I think of him in other roles other than Kirk.
KennyB said:
I really think Shatner just wants to get PAID to play Kirk.............
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Going to multiple sites, Shatner's financial worth is above $100 million, and might be as high as $300 million. While he would expect to be paid, a paycheck is unlikely to be the main reason he would do Kirk again.
 
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Tenacity said:
Can't say the same, Kirk is either Shatner on TV, or Shatner in the movies.

When I think of Pine, I think of him in other roles other than Kirk.
Going to multiple sites, Shatner's financial worth is above $100 million, and might be as high as $300 million. While he would expect to be paid, a paycheck is unlikely to be the main reason he would do Kirk again.
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Greed is a powerful thing..........I remember money being a key sticking point on his returning before.
 
Shatner (and Nimoy) both had opportunities to return in Enterprise, that didn't happen.

In Trek 09 and the movie that was replaced with Beyond (which was fantastic btw) thre were mooted appearances that never happened.

I honestly think the ship has well and truly sailed, please prove me wrong.
 
No, thank you. I happen to think that hamifistedly inserting Leonard Nimoy into the first two re-boot films was a mistake that detracted from the story - and that was with a superior actor playing a superior character. The last thing we need now is a great big dollop of 'The Shat' inserted into any more of the franchise.
 
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maybe they could take a leaf from MCUs book - an opening flashback (or in this case alt-universe flashforward) of a CG deaged 80s Shatner (as opposed to using Shatner in his 80s). maybe it could be done for the whole TOS crew- an opening sequence set at some point in the Trek II-VI era (or shortly after) with them in the maroon uniforms on the NCC1701A - like a mini Star Trek 'VII' with Shatner, Koenig, Takei, Nichols reprising their roles with those CG mocap things but other actors portraying Spock, Bones, Scotty- CG Rogue One style. In that way the Trek V photo at the end of Beyond would be like a foreshadow to the next movie. How would it fit in the following movie though? Would have to be some interdimentonal/timetravel plot (like what they are intending for 4)
 
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Khan 2.0 said:
maybe they could take a leaf from MCUs book - an opening flashback (or in this case alt-universe flashforward) of a CG deaged 80s Shatner (as opposed to using Shatner in his 80s). maybe it could be done for the whole TOS crew- an opening sequence set at some point in the Trek II-VI era (or shortly after) with them in the maroon uniforms on the NCC1701A - like a mini Star Trek 'VII' with Shatner, Koenig, Takei, Nichols reprising their roles with those CG mocap things but other actors portraying Spock, Bones, Scotty- CG Rogue One style. In that way the Trek V photo at the end of Beyond would be like a foreshadow to the next movie. How would it fit in the following movie though? Would have to be some interdimentonal/timetravel plot (like what they are intending for 4)
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With Paramount wanting a lower budget.........that one scene might break the bank.
 
Shats on about playing Kirk again: https://trekmovie.com/2017/10/13/wi...-story-to-tell-with-him-as-kirk-in-star-trek/
Star Trek legend William Shatner is going strong at age 86, filling his time with his new animated movie Batman vs. Two-Face (he voices Two-Face!) releasing this month, the reality show Better Late Than Never heading into a second season in 2018, what seems like constant convention appearances, and much more. So why not bring him back for another round as Captain Kirk in Star Trek too? His late colleague Leonard Nimoy had roles in two of the J.J. Abrams-verse films, after all, and there is a new Star Trek show, Discovery, currently airing.

Never mind that his version of Kirk died in Star Trek: Generations. That's easy to get around in the world of sci-fi! So when I spoke with Mr. Shatner at New York Comic Con last weekend, I asked him what it would take to get the icon to appear on Star Trek: Discovery.

"A great deal of money," he laughed, though perhaps not jokingly. "I don’t know what you’d do with a character who appeared 50, now 51 years ago. You know, I am 51 years older, with all the exigencies of age."

He does not seem opposed to the idea, however. And while putting the actor on Discovery, for example, might not make much sense in terms of that show's storyline, there are plenty of rumors about CBS wanting to do other Star Trek projects. Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country director Nicholas Meyer, for example, has said he's working on something, though the details are top secret.

"I wrote a series of books about [Kirk], which Paramount allowed me to do," recalled Mr. Shatner. "Basically on my life -- they were basically autobiographical books, which I gave my life to Captain Kirk’s, and some of the drama that took place in my life."

However, beyond those stories (which explained how Kirk survived Generations, by the way), he thinks exploring Kirk's golden years could be quite interesting -- a captain who no longer has the vim and vigor that once made him so great. He referred to his Better Late Than Never co-star and friend Terry Bradshaw, the football legend, by comparison.

"Are there stories to tell about an aging guy?" said the once and future Kirk. "[Bradshaw] was a great athlete. An awkward kid of 15, 16, who matured and then was a quarterback that was third quarterback, then he became the second quarterback. He grew into this great quarterback, one of the great quarterbacks, that he became. Now, he’s older, his knees hurt, his back hurts. ... So here’s this aging athlete, who isn’t [what] he was in his twenties and thirties. Still carries himself grandly and has a sense of humor and all, but he’s not the athlete he was. What would Captain Kirk be like 50 years later, with the sagacity of mind, and yet the body doesn’t do what he wants it to do? I mean, it’s an interesting story."

Will we ever see such a story? Who can say. But never say never. After all, Captain Kirk doesn't believe in the no-win scenario...
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/10...-still-stories-to-tell-about-his-captain-kirk
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also Orci weighs in on Shatner in the JJ films
https://twitter.com/realboborci/status/919308265137115136
https://twitter.com/realboborci/status/919632386639278080
 
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