James R Kirk"The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot."
Nice to see they are still working a Trek movie, and also nice to see (IMO) that it could be connected to the main timeline.
ragepawI am all for new Trek, but they need to fuck right off with the prequels.
Every studio: “What if we instead just go back and write ourselves into a corner and risk pissing people off by breaking continuity.”
? it doesn’t say anything about prequels?
It’s previously been reported that Haynes and Grahame-Smith’s movie, produced by Simon Kinberg, "will serve as an origin story of sorts for the main timeline of the entire franchise
Literal prequel
? that quote is not in the article ???
I’m not sure why you’re arguing. YOU linked to the article I responded to. Did you actually read it? And did you notice that the article now redirects to a different article than the one you linked to?
It really wasn’t hard to find a different source that for the same article you ooriginally posted. Many other sites reposted.
I’m not sure why you’re arguing. YOU linked to the article I responded to. Did you actually read it?
sffgazette.com/…/star-trek-4-has-finally-been-scr… Note: “SOURCE: VARIETY”
The article I shared is the original source and does not contain a mention of prequels.
The link you shared just now appears to be an AI slop summary with added hallucinations.
I am arguing with you because from the perspective of someone reading the article I shared, you brought up an entirely unrelated topic in order to complain.
The title of the article you posted is clearly not the same article given that it’s not the same headline or the fact it’s not even about Star Trek.
You’re clearly a troll, and I’m done wasting time with you.
The article that you are commenting underneath is the original source for the quote about Star Trek and does not contain any mention of prequels.
With Ellison in control, we might finally get that all-white, all-male Starfleet that non-fans have been begging for
As opposed to the TV series which has to tick every ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation checkbox. No disabled in Star Fleet? (crispy Captain Pike doesn’t count).
New Star Trek movie you say?
etherphonThe spirit of Star Trek is incompatible with Paramount’s new MAGA politics, it will be ruined.
Value SubtractedI don’t think it’s that straightforward. They just gave the South Park guys half a billion dollars, and re-upped Jon Stewart for another year.
The CBS News division is a tire fire right now, but I don’t think there have been signs of creative interference in the studios.
You know, yet.
AlsoPaisleyCatThe article says that the new leadership wants to create more ‘America-centric’ content.
That said, with their streamer’s major weakness being its lack of subscribers outside the United States and that Ellison and his top team managed to grate so much on Taylor Sheridan that he has signed a contract to move to NBCUniversal in three years, they seem likely to faceplant with this ‘corporate approach.’
Eh, I don’t think them trying to make some things “geared to the middle of the country” is necessarily a sign that they’re going full MAGA - the context there is that they’re likely to pursue Tom Cruise for more projects, and…that’s the sort of stuff that Tom Cruise makes.
I don’t think the Star Trek sky is falling, at least any more or less than it was before. But then, I’m not very invested in them making feature films anyway!
David PhdStar Trek: Section 31 is proof they've already started. Dreadful.
Steve Leach@etherphon @Kirk Didn't that already happen?
Howard Chu @ Symas@Kirk kelvin timeline was lame anyway. Why bother calling it Star Trek if your writers aren't competent enough to write stories in the established Star Trek universe...
I really liked Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto and enjoyed the first two movies. The first one far more than the second though.
The second had what I felt were unnecessary linked to their prequels and it’s also what the worst parts of Craig’s Bond and Solo were as well.
I don’t think they embodied the spirit of Star Trek though, but I was hoping they could have worked those out.
_NetNomadthat's a shame, i always really liked Pine's Kirk in particular. but i guess it was also inevitable as soon as Spock showed up in Disco with a new actor
the rest of the article is... harrowing, to say the least. Trek feels like the elephant in the room at Paramount right now- you'd think Ellison would think that "un-woke-ifying" Trek would be an easy way to score points with the White House right now, but so far it's been business as usual
I have a long list of things I disliked about the JJ Abrams movies, but the casting was certainly nowhere on it.
Honestly, I’d take this with a small grain of salt.
I don’t doubt Variety’s reporting, but this amounts to a bullet point in a larger article, and while I’m sure they’ve “moved on” from whatever they had cooking, I think it’s also possible that they could develop another project with that crew, if they have a script that they like well enough.
We’ll see what happens - it’s been years of them being unable to get a project going, and I don’t expect that to change any time soon.
Star Trek is dead with the new owners. Gene Roddenberry and Lucy Ball wouldn’t continue under a fascist control.