'Starpoint Academy' CGI animated film

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[Peter David]

has said on his web site that he will write a screenplay for a theatrical film of Gene Roddenberry's Starpoint Academy.

At PeterDavid.net, the writer explained that Starpoint Academy was planned to be a full-length CGI-animated film from IDT Entertainment, possibly to be followed by graphic novels and other related tie-ins.

David described the project as "an original Gene Roddenberry concept in conjunction with Majel Roddenberry",

http://www.trekbbs.com/showpost.php?p=775448&postcount=1
(at the closed thread)


Gene Roddenberry’s 'Starpoint Academy'

–a screenplay for a CGI animated film inspired by the work of Gene Roddenberry. The premise: the best and brightest galactic teens are recruited and trained as elite Astro Rangers on Starpoint Pharos, an artificial planet that’s a cosmic United Nations and solves problems around the universe. PAD said: “Basically it progressed exactly as I thought it would. When I first hooked up with it, I wanted to meet with the director. They told me there wasn’t one yet; they wanted the script first. And I thought, ‘Great. I’m going to work on this script, and when it’s finally done, they’re going to hire a director who’s going to throw out everything I did and bring in someone he’s worked with before.’ Which is exactly what happened. Last I heard, he had his own guy who turned in his own script which the execs hated. So I’ve no idea where it stands.”

Source: PeterDavid.net postings


IDT was on this 'Starpoint Academy' project in 2004 then in 2006:
LIBERTY MEDIA TO ACQUIRE IDT ENTERTAINMENT
May 16, 2006

With this acquisition, Liberty Media's Starz Entertainment Group will have the capability to create a wide array of CG animated and live action programming for domestic and international distribution in all major channels, including broadcast syndication, premium television, theatrical, and home video/DVD.

http://www.idt.net/about/press/story.aspx?id=15601


If IDT Entertainment still has this project's rights their track record is:

'Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron' (2007)

"The animation is great, the material is incredible. Although reworked for filming, there is a TON of comic references in both films."

-from imdb.com user comments

"Masters of Science Fiction" (2007) live-action TV series
which made its brief debut on ABC and was released on DVD.

If this moves forward it and gets greenlit as Peter's screenplay it would probably air on Starz and Encore cable channels including Starz HDTV, Starz On Demand as well as a release on Blu-ray and DVD.