Siddig Would Like to Reprise DS9(interview)
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Love to see DS9 return, a TV movie would be great, but it isn't going to happen. The JJverse is here to stay - any future TV project will be routed in that "reality". Not complaining (I'd welcome it) - just saying!
Oh, I'd kill for a DS9 reunion. A TV movie would be so great ... nice to know he still keeps in touch with his ex-wife.
This also isn't happening, but I could see a Primeverse return via animated movie, the way DC and Marvel have their main film franchises but have various shows and movies in their own separate continuities just to spread the market.
Losing the real-life actors and just hearing their voices instead would be depressing for me, as I'm an aspiring actor myself. I love to see the people who make these characters up close and personal, see what makes them tick, what acting styles they utilize.
Better than nothing though.
Better than nothing though.
Sometimes I think actors just say that, especially when they've had a role in something big and/or popular. I'm not saying he wouldn't go for it, but I'm not sure whether it really means as much as actors say.
Kinda has to, due to the kid...
Kinda has to, due to the kid...
The JJverse could include DS9 and many if not all of the characters we know & love. But the story doesn't need to proceed in the same way. Everything is open to possibility!
I would watch a DS9 reunion, with the original cast playing the old characters, or playing new characters with the original characters re-cast with younger actors. I'd watch damn near anything named Star Trek at this point. I'd watch a VOY reunion and be happy! I'd watch an all-Ferengi singing and dancing musical revue.
I would watch a DS9 reunion, with the original cast playing the old characters, or playing new characters with the original characters re-cast with younger actors. I'd watch damn near anything named Star Trek at this point. I'd watch a VOY reunion and be happy! I'd watch an all-Ferengi singing and dancing musical revue.
Why would anyone need to cast younger actors for these roles at this point, unless they were doing some kind of prequel? It's been just 10 years, nobody has changed tremendously and unlike some of their Trek colleagues, nobody's gained significant amounts of weight, and half of the cast would wear heavy makeup that makes aging irrelevant.
The JJverse could include DS9 and many if not all of the characters we know & love. But the story doesn't need to proceed in the same way. Everything is open to possibility!
I would watch a DS9 reunion, with the original cast playing the old characters, or playing new characters with the original characters re-cast with younger actors. I'd watch damn near anything named Star Trek at this point. I'd watch a VOY reunion and be happy! I'd watch an all-Ferengi singing and dancing musical revue.
Oh man, I so totally hear you...
10 years is long enough for the actors to have aged/changed significantly.
As much as I would like to see a DS9 movie or reunion, those things rarely go well when using the original cast. TV is full or reunion shows that bombed.
But, creating a mini series based on new characters, and having the original cast guest starring would be great. Anyone remember the 145 year old Dr McCoy showing up for an episode of TNG?
As much as I would like to see a DS9 movie or reunion, those things rarely go well when using the original cast. TV is full or reunion shows that bombed.
But, creating a mini series based on new characters, and having the original cast guest starring would be great. Anyone remember the 145 year old Dr McCoy showing up for an episode of TNG?
Of course he would - Trek was steady work for actors that don't often get steady work.
I'm a bit confused. I read the interview, and he only states that a DS9 television movie would be interesting if it could have a chance of being made, not that he "would like to reprise DS9." As a matter of fact, he says here that any future DS9 is pretty much dead:
http://www.trektoday.com/content/2010/08/siddig-no-more-deep-space-nine/
It's not nearly long enough for them to have changed so much that they would have to be replaced by other actors. Especially considering that there is this thing called makeup... and that half of the cast is in heavy makeup anyway.
As for those who aren't... (these are the most recent videos I could find)
Nana Visitor a year ago
Colm Meaney a year ago
Nicole De Boer (and Terry Farrell) a year ago
Avery Brooks a year ago
The only people who have changed significanly are Cirroc Lofton and Alexander Siddig.
(But since this is all hypothetical, it doesn't really matter...)
I was riding my bike off and on for over ten hours today (job-seeking without a vehicle is the most amazing way to burn calories... and sprain your ankle) and forgot my iPod at the start of my trek. Naturally, this frustrated me to no end upon realization but I was miles away from the apartment at that point, so I gave up on that front and my mind started wandering.
Now, I'm not a writer of fan fiction. When I write, I'd much rather be writing something of my own creation, not a spinoff. Nevertheless, my mind wandered, and thanks in no small part to the time I've spent on the Trek BBS in the past couple of weeks, it wandered over to DS9. Against my conscious wishes, I then concocted half-baked six-season continuation of the series, which apparently my brain reasoned would live for those six years on Showtime and would be every bit as dark -- and darker -- as the original piece. Ron D. Moore reunites with Ira Steven Behr and they recruit Manny Coto and Rockne S. O'Bannon (who I don't think has ever worked on Trek... but whatever) and they take off from there.
Despite the obvious financial reasons the show would struggle, it performs well (it's my daydreaming, it will go as my daydreaming insists) and it thrives off of a combination of a few 'legacy' characters and a slew of new permanent and recurring faces. Ezri Dax and Julian Bashir return to Deep Space Nine after several years of being away, Kira Nerys remains in command, Quark still has his bar and Nog comes back, too. Everyone else is new, although I played with Jake having a reason to stick around again.
I'm not going to bother going into detail because this isn't really completely relevant to the thread or anything, plus I don't think it's the best thing since sliced bagels, either. But it amused me to no end that my mind wouldn't stop going until I had all six seasons' basic arc material down pat and all sorts of revelations and a couple of gripping sacrifices along the way.
Man, I need to write more of my own stuff before this becomes me.
Now, I'm not a writer of fan fiction. When I write, I'd much rather be writing something of my own creation, not a spinoff. Nevertheless, my mind wandered, and thanks in no small part to the time I've spent on the Trek BBS in the past couple of weeks, it wandered over to DS9. Against my conscious wishes, I then concocted half-baked six-season continuation of the series, which apparently my brain reasoned would live for those six years on Showtime and would be every bit as dark -- and darker -- as the original piece. Ron D. Moore reunites with Ira Steven Behr and they recruit Manny Coto and Rockne S. O'Bannon (who I don't think has ever worked on Trek... but whatever) and they take off from there.
Despite the obvious financial reasons the show would struggle, it performs well (it's my daydreaming, it will go as my daydreaming insists) and it thrives off of a combination of a few 'legacy' characters and a slew of new permanent and recurring faces. Ezri Dax and Julian Bashir return to Deep Space Nine after several years of being away, Kira Nerys remains in command, Quark still has his bar and Nog comes back, too. Everyone else is new, although I played with Jake having a reason to stick around again.
I'm not going to bother going into detail because this isn't really completely relevant to the thread or anything, plus I don't think it's the best thing since sliced bagels, either. But it amused me to no end that my mind wouldn't stop going until I had all six seasons' basic arc material down pat and all sorts of revelations and a couple of gripping sacrifices along the way.
Man, I need to write more of my own stuff before this becomes me.
There is also the increasing use of digital makeup. Used on a lot more features than people realize.
I'm not so sure; if I were a betting man I certainly wouldn't put any money on a new animated series. But with the success of the last movie I can envision a ship based show set in, but not using characters or situations from, the JJverse - neatly avoiding further financial reward to Mr. Abrams.
Why do they need to use heavy makeup at all? The TV movie could be set 10-30 years into the future.
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