My thoughts exactly.
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My thoughts exactly.
Oh fuck, that's who Duncan Jones is? Moon guy? He's got my vote!Duncan Jones. Moon and Source Code are superb, and he can get his dad to appear so the film can feature Ziggy Stardust as the villain and Space Oddity as the theme song.
Ground Control to Mister Spock...
Perhaps, but the point is that Trek films have seldom gone in for big-name directors in the past. Nicholas Meyer had directed ones small feature film prior to KHAN, Nimoy had never directed a feature before, Frakes had never directed a feature before . . . and they all managed to make some pretty good Trek movies.
So I'm not sure a list of young, up-and-coming directors is grounds for concern.
I've never even heard of any of the directors in this poll, so I can't answer it.
Me, I couldn't give two shits who the director of the next film is, as long as it's a GOOD film.
Me, I couldn't give two shits who the director of the next film is, as long as it's a GOOD film.
To be fair, it's always dicey to make predictions based solely on a director's track record in other genres:
Tim Burton was best known for wacky comedies like Pee-Wee's Big Adventure before he directed Batman.
John Favreau was best known for directing Elf before he did Iron Man.
Kenneth Branagh was best known for his Shakespearean productions before he did Thor.
And, reversing the equation, who would have guessed that director Leonard Nimoy would have a big hit in Three Men and a Baby?
Directors are sometimes more versatile than their track records may suggest, so, for instance, a Lin-directed STAR TREK movie would not necessarily be "The Fast and the Furious in Space."
If this is the definitive short list, then I'll go with Lin first, and if he bows out, then Wyatt.
The short list just got a lot shorter: It comprises of Justin Lin.
The director behind Fast & Furious 6 will take on Star Trek 3
The director behind Fast & Furious 6 will take on Star Trek 3
Again, as opposed to Nicholas Meyer? Whom had made one time-travel romance before he directed the best Trek movie ever.
Of all the Star Trek movie directors of the past, Wise had the most sterling track record when it came to science fiction films, yet TMP is a mixed bag at best.
I'm inclined to give the new guy the benefit of the doubt.
Or Nimoy.
Or Shatner.
Or Carson.
Or Frakes.
Or Baird.
Cuz all those guys had prolific film directing careers before ... or even after Star Trek.
Or Shatner.
Or Carson.
Or Frakes.
Or Baird.
Cuz all those guys had prolific film directing careers before ... or even after Star Trek.
true, though I don't know how many times you are going to have something like that happen, given how bad Into Darkness was I have no faith in Paramount anymore tbh.
Well, I'd say your first problem is that you think Star Trek Into Darkness was bad. Totally your call, of course. But both the JJ films have done pretty well for themselves. Hard to fault Paramount for trying to replicated what they've already succeeded with.
I thought the 2009 film was good, had a couple of plot holes but otherwise it kept true to what I like about Trek well enough.
Into Darkness redid Wrath of Kahn (in my book that's blasphemy), it then just had a plot that made no sense at all all round other than lame excuses for OTT action scenes & explosions, they then reversed Spock & Kirks roles at the end which made even less sense if you watch Wrath of Kahn. and as for the Kahn blood? seriously? made me think I was watching a kids film ffs, absolute nonsense.
If there's ever an argument that leaning on Star Trek's past is guaranteed to work against it in the future, the TWOK-redux portions of Into Darkness pretty much define it.
Star Trek should always be moving forward, and my thought since seeing STID has been that with the Khan story out of their system, Orci, his writers and our new fearless leader director can craft something amazing.
And that's precisely how I am looking at it as well. I am one of those who liked both new films - and I am a somewhat older, original TOS fan who has played along since the get-go. That being said, and with the Khan story done, I am hoping for something original. There can certainly be references to things we all know and love - with whatever changes they want to throw into the mix - I just don't want the story to focus on it. The pressure, of course, is that it is a milestone anniversary and the expectations are going to be very, very high.
I watched STID last night and the feeling I got at the very end of the film was: Ok, now we have all the origin story, Khan, Starfleet is an army/no it's not stuff out of the way, let's get to exploring. I would love to see an entire nuTrek movie where they never went to Earth or even mentioned it.
That would certainly be in keeping with TOS, which never actually showed 23rd century Earth.
The only time Kirk and Co. visited Earth in the original series was in time-travel excursions to the Great Depression or the 1960s . . . .
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