William Shatner wanted Star Trek 2009 to focus on him.

[BillJ]

How bout neither Nimoy or Shat? How bout they stop referencing previous Trek and just boldly go forward? I mean, who's kidding who?

There is no kidding anyone. The studio will sit down and decide whether or not Shatner and Nimoy will help the film sell more tickets.

Obviously its a money thang...not really worth pointing out

If referencing past Trek sells tickets then they'll do it. Not something I'm personally fond of but I'll be going to see Trek 3 either way.

 

[JeffinOakland]

There is no kidding anyone. The studio will sit down and decide whether or not Shatner and Nimoy will help the film sell more tickets.

Obviously its a money thang...not really worth pointing out

If referencing past Trek sells tickets then they'll do it. Not something I'm personally fond of but I'll be going to see Trek 3 either way.

Hopefully Nimoy will decide he's over it and Shat will talk himself out of the role by asking for a bazillion dollars and to be the main character.

 

[Cyke101]

Orci seems weak in character and he is not experienced so that means he may give into any shatner request like hugging all the spotlight for star trek 3 which will be disastrous in my personal opinion.

You do realize that Orci isn't the only one in the decision making circle? He'll make the movie Paramount and Bad Robot want him to make.

I think this is my general problem with Orci -- not with Trek specifically, but in many other things Orci does. He's a yes-man who will write whatever the higher ups tell him to. I've never heard him really say in interviews that he'd take a stand on a creative decision like others. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it doesn't work, it feels like a mishmash of what execs believe will sell, not what is important to the story (Transformers, for example). So he's a decision-maker now as a director in one sense, but as a writer he'll easily and rapidly defer to anyone in power, and so it remains to be seen just what he'll do AS a decision-maker, or if he'll just continue auto-deferring to producers and execs.

Of course, it's an opinion, and a fairly uninformed one at that, so take it as you will.

 

[M'Sharak]

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/29/6...says-role-captain-kirk-in-new-star-trek-movie

And this is the real reason why I do not want him to return at all.


I am just glad JJ made the right decision by refusing such nonsense request from shatner. Imagine if JJ had given in to shatner and the whole film was about him. we will never have gotten the excellent and now classic star trek 2009.

Orci seems weak in character and he is not experienced so that means he may give into any shatner request like hugging all the spotlight for star trek 3 which will be disastrous in my personal opinion.


This is another reason why I jope JJ takes his producer role very seriously and does not just put his name on it. a producer still calls the shot on the cast and script and I hope JJ sticks to not given shatner the spotlight.

Shatner has had his time. 79 episode and 6 films is more than enough. Pine Saldana, Urban and Quinto are no where close to that.

I love this new cast dearly and I want trek 3 to be all about them and them alone. It was bad enough that they were stuck with a wrath of khan remake in STID and now this...not happy.

Star Trek 3 should be their film, their time, their space, their moment...their last moment for all we know as most of the cast may want to move on after the trilogy.

It is not fair for someone from the past like Shatner who has had his time and whose character is suppose to be DEAD to steal their thunder. Its irritating.

Now I know what shatner wanted for trek 2009. I do not want to see him in trek 3 at all. I will read spoilers and if I discover Shatner becomes a centric character forv trek 3, I would not see the film because I think it is unfair and disrespectful to the new cast.

Once again, the topic of Shatner's possible appearance in the next movie is already being discussed in this thread. Another one is not needed.

Furthermore, your post quoted here is another example of a blog entry, and I've asked you before to refrain from posting those here. If you're going to start a thread, it should have one clear topic—not a different topic in each paragraph—and there should be a clear indication of where you intend discussion to go from there. This post does none of that; it just rambles here and there without focus.

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