All I gotta say to that is...better hurry up and make that movie!
To Whom Should the Movie Mantle Pass Post-Abrams
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All I gotta say to that is...better hurry up and make that movie!
If you want good Star Trek, these guys would be my choice, too.
If you want to continue in the footsteps of Abrams, might as well hire Michael Bay or Roland Emmerich. It's the same difference, really.
Not RDM. Please, God no. Not him.
We've all seen what his work is like. Who wants Trek to become like nuBSG?
We've all seen what his work is like. Who wants Trek to become like nuBSG?
That is inspired, I like it!
Brian Fuller, he has a great sense for asthetic and Hannibal shows that he's really great with serious characters too... (yet perhaps more qualified as a writer than as director...)
Not RDM. Please, God no. Not him.
We've all seen what his work is like. Who wants Trek to become like nuBSG?
Which is exactly why he'd be an inspired choice.
This isn't to say that I want dark and depressing Trek. I want someone who has an ear for dialog, values character above all other considerations and isn't afraid to buck tradition to tell a emotionally true story. BSG is often thought of as a show that was nothing but doom and gloom but it was, actually, a show about optimism. In the face of certain death, those few thousand survivors kept going. They faced horrors that should have caused them to simply curl up and die, but they refused. They found hope in the promise of a new home and kept going.
RDM took on the insipid, vapid and totally uninspired original BSG and stripped it to the core. It's a show about the victims of genocide, pursued by killers and murderers who will never stop. This is not a story that should be told in a lighthearted tone. He took the central truth of the show and built a real and unvarnished world filled with people that you came to know, love and hate.
Star Trek is many things but, at its core, it's an unabashedly optimistic show. It holds firm to the notion that, despite our many shortcomings, we can achieve greatness. RDM literally grew up on Trek and if he were unleashed on Trek with full creative control, I think the result would be world-class dramatic writing set against a fantastic backdrop of adventure and excitement. Just as he did with BSG, he'd find the dramatic core truth of Trek and build a real and immersive world around it.
I chuckled.
Yes yes yes...let me join with you...my mind to your mind...
BTW, who has Sarek's Katra?
Johnny Depp...
...thoughts are overtaking my typing fingers...
...a new Captain Jack Sparrow potential...
...transference of every "Pirates of the..." character to his or her requisite Star Trek equivalent
(LET THE LIST-MAKING BEGIN)
...and, lastly, trying to imagine Science Officer Depp's very first response from the Science Officer's Station...
...and trying to imagine it withOUT seeing him flail around like Joe Cocker...
...you know, in typing all of this, I realize how much I like Burton, Depp and Cocker...
"...do ya neeeeed anyyybodeee? Bad da da dah....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
...Sorry...got carried away...let's give Depp a screen test...
I think a good combination would be old and new faces. Bringing in one or two of the old guard, and then having fresh talent tackle some important roles would be the overall best choice. By new, I of course mean new to Trek. I wouldn't mind seeing Neil Gaiman work on the script, and then someone like Neill Blomkamp in the director's chair. Have RDM/Nick Meyer work as a producer/creative consultants. 
I might be mistaken, but I don't think He has much of a hand in the decision-making process at Paramount.
Gaiman/Blomkamp is an interesting idea... Gaiman would probably come up with something whacked, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I dig what The Stig has to say about RDM, and I think people forget about NuBSG that its gritty tone was specific to the material -- it's a story about wandering in the wilderness after an apocalypse, and the original's cheery camp tone was always weirdly at odds with that. I think he probably could deliver good drama in an updated Trek format.
RDM is hugely overrated. He's responsible for a lot of Crap Trek. He only looks like Aeschylus next to Brannon Braga.
Not so much, no. Anyone who could make me weep for Saul Fucking Tigh is more than qualified to take on televised Trek. In the (unlikely) circumstance that Trek comes back to television and it's under his control, we might actually get some honest-to-god people on the bridge of the Enterprise. That'd be a revelation unto itself, unseen in televised Trek since TOS.
Nimoy, with Harve Bennet producing and Nicholas Meyer ghostwriting
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Whenever this comes up, I always have two takes: one, the safe 'sure' bet, Whedon, who can tell a movie-sized movie story well (SERENITY/AVENGERS) while paying due diligence to the characters, & the other being a guy who has no background in this kind of thing but tells compelling character driven stories, the guy who wrote and directed THE STATION AGENT and THE VISITOR, who to me would be a modern equivalent to Meyer (and then some.)
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