Don't give me more Abrams! Give me Kurtzman!Just a golden nugget for you: the man who wrote two of the Abrams films would be in charge of a Pike or DS9 movie.
Makes sense. ..some how.
Don't give me more Abrams! Give me Kurtzman!Just a golden nugget for you: the man who wrote two of the Abrams films would be in charge of a Pike or DS9 movie.
Does anyone under 30 even know what DS9 is?
My three kids do. They are aware of Trek in all its various forms. I raised them right.![]()
My wife, brother and sister do.Does anyone under 30 even know what DS9 is?
I wouldn't mind a Pike era film, but then we'd have the continuity folks complaining about the advanced tech and the uniforms being wrong and whatnot. There's actually something cool about that era being shadowy.
star trek into the spider-versetitle? (to excite non trekkies)
Star Trek: Shared Universe
star trek into the spider-verse
My wife, brother and sister do.
Lower budgets meant that TWOK was scaled down considerably from what was initially envisioned, and came across as an excellent character piece on the relationship between Kirk and his friends and Kirk and his enemies.Dropping the budget cuts both ways. For better or worse, the Kelvin films are built around being blockbusters.
Almost a fifth of Beyond's box office came from China. Somehow I don't think that many people will be lining up in China - or much of the world - for a Star Trek character piece.
A budget of 100 mil would seem to place it in pretty dangerous ground - not enough to be a blockbuster, but requiring a very solid take to break even.
Taking into account the divide among Trek fans about the Kelvin films, those who will stay away from Trek in general and the lack of anything special about the film (indeed, aside from the negative of a writer-director coming off a bomb) and I fear it's set up for failure.
I like the Kelvin films - they're among my top half-dozen Trek films - but their ship has sailed.
Tl:dr, reigning in costs and keeping something more balanced and paced is good, but take away too much money and you're left with a glorified TV episode.
Don't do that if you don't want a repeat of Generations.
Or Final Frontier.
Lower budgets meant that TWOK was scaled down considerably from what was initially envisioned, and came across as an excellent character piece on the relationship between Kirk and his friends and Kirk and his enemies.
The lower budget also meant that the sets built for TMP had to be reused, costuming had to become extremely creative, and some filmmaking choices had to be scaled back. It worked.
STIII and STVI are both recognized as excellent, although unsubtle, films in their own right, but both suffer a bit from 'Sequel-itis'.
A bit more flexibility in the budget could have allowed those films to expand beyond just "sequels".
OTOH, the Transformers movies are widely considered to be great popcorn flicks but have little lasting power; raking in enough to make the franchise wildly successful, but hardly standout.
Ditto for Terminator, at least up until this year.
Going back to Trek, ST09 was a great action adventure movie with plotholes you could drive a shuttlecraft through. Having an unlimited budget isn't necessarily a good thing, but neither is having a TV-movie budget (cf:Generations).
Tl:dr, reigning in costs and keeping something more balanced and paced is good, but take away too much money and you're left with a glorified TV episode.
Don't do that if you don't want a repeat of Generations.
Or Final Frontier.
Fuckin' idiots. After reunification of Viacom and Paramount who needs this antiTrek junk like Kelvinerse? They shoud make movie about regular universe Pike and Enterprise in that period or movie about DS9 crew. No one normal doesn't want this shit known as Kelvinverse.
Fuckin' idiots. After reunification of Viacom and Paramount who needs this antiTrek junk like Kelvinerse? They shoud make movie about regular universe Pike and Enterprise in that period or movie about DS9 crew. No one normal doesn't want this shit known as Kelvinverse.
but his double negative is on point. no one normal doesn't want this shit.Ok. Cool story bro.
I half expected a splice with Vanishing Point at that moment. (Which would have increased the awesome quotient considerably—confusion notwithstanding)Or Nemesis. Seriously, that dune buggy chase looked like something from a low-budget 1970s drive-in movie.
Eh, my wife found DS9 on her own after watching ST 09, so...maybe.Maybe close family of trek fans doesn't really represent the wider general audience very well![]()
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