NO Star Trek for you!! Come back in 6 months!!

Originally Posted By oc_dean

Paramount Studio heads are being the ultimate "Soup Nazi"!

I didn't know if you Star Trek fans here got wind of this last week ....

but because of the Writer's strike ... Paramount does not have much of a summer '09 line-up.

So even though the much anticipated Star Trek film will be ready for it's original December 25,2008 debut .....

We will have to wait another six months .. as they want this to be their big summer '09 blockuster! I believe it will be Memorial weekend in May.

 

Originally Posted By jdub

I just saw a preview for this yesterday.

Gotta tell ya--the only, ONLY reason I'm interested is because Uhuru is being played by Beyonce!

 

Originally Posted By velo

no way..!

 

Originally Posted By trekkeruss

I am a fan in hibernation, so I haven't been keeping abreast of any news. The sooner it comes out the better though; I need people to get excited again about the property so I can unload all my extra Trek toys. They aren't selling at all these days.

 

Originally Posted By jdub

The ONLY Star Trek toy I've ever purchased is the Whoopi Goldberg action figure. If they put out a good John Cho one, that will be next.

 

Originally Posted By vbdad55

still- no Shatner cameo- no see

 

Originally Posted By jdub

The Shat is probably busy with his best role ever--Denny Crane!

Say, Denny Crane & Shirley Schmidt action figures--yeah, I'd throw down for that!

 

Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror

There were other problems with the movie and other issues. Regardless of what you've heard, they weren't merely moving the release because of an empty schedule in Summer. They had other prospects for that time.

1) Level 1 is co-financing STAR TREK. A big chunk of their money comes from Adam Sandler. His "You Don't Mess With The Zohan", was scheduled to be released by Sony Pictures, right opposite STAR TREK. There was no sense it opening both at the same time, considering he's got big money in both.

That's right, you have Adam Sandler to thank for STAR TREK. Something very weird about that.

But the truth ALSO is that the script had problems, and this gives them time to reshoot. Want proof of that? All the sets are still standing, and when shooting wraps in April, a lot of those sets will STILL be standing. Reshoots will probably commence within just a few weeks, if not right away, on scenes that weren't quite right during the regular schedule, but, due to the strike, could not be fixed at the time.

In any event, this movie has to be good... as close to perfect as possible, and the extra time is nothing but a good thing.

 

Originally Posted By BlueOhanaTerror

There should've been a "2" up there somewhere. Ugh.

 

Originally Posted By BeautysBeast

Beyonce not playing uhuru in the film..Zoe Saldana is...

 

Originally Posted By jdub

>>Beyonce not playing uhuru in the film..Zoe Saldana is...<<

Are you SURE!?!?!?!?

 

Originally Posted By Mr X

Looks that way.

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z
o</a>ë_Saldaña

She's pretty cool, I liked her in "The Terminal".

 

Originally Posted By hightp

Regarding William Shatner, the director (or producer) specifically said they did not ask him to appear because his character was killed in a previous movie. Fortunatly, though, Leonard Nemoy will be wearing Captain Kirk's toupee as a memorial.

 

Originally Posted By Mr X

What the heck does that have to do with a prequel?

(not to mention it would be a cameo of a different character anyway)

 

Originally Posted By JeffG

I would guess that Nimoy's appearance is going to be in a framing sequence. If they cited Kirk's death as a reason for not inviting Shatner to appear, that suggests that the framing sequence will likely take place after the early scenes of "Generations". That would tend to make some sense as it would likely be difficult to pass either Nimoy or Shatner off as being younger than they were in the earlier films.

-Jeff

 

Originally Posted By danyoung

I can't believe none of you geeks have objected - it's UHURA, not Uhuru!!!

Get your fanatic stuff together!

 

Originally Posted By Mr X

**I would guess that Nimoy's appearance is going to be in a framing sequence.**

Ah. Makes sense then.

**That would tend to make some sense as it would likely be difficult to pass either Nimoy or Shatner off as being younger than they were in the earlier films.**

You obviously never saw that Boston Legal episode featuring a young Shatner. Freakin amazing!

They can do anything with computers these days.

In fact, I'm surprised they recast the thing at all (unless something like that would just be too costly...although seeing all those utterly famous roles being replayed but younger, I think, would be a huge hit).

 

Originally Posted By danyoung

>You obviously never saw that Boston Legal episode featuring a young Shatner. Freakin amazing!<

That show was one of the best examples of incorporating old footage into a new show that I have ever seen, and they didn't have to use computers at all to do it. Brilliant!

 

Originally Posted By Mr X

Oh, I didn't realize that was old footage (although it crossed my mind right after I wrote the post).

Never mind then.

 

Originally Posted By danyoung

It was footage from an old 50's show. I can't remember which one, kinda like a Masterpiece Theater or something similar. They wrote the script of the Boston Legal show to match the story from the old episode. It was just incredibly clever, and I don't think anyone has ever pulled off a trick quite like it.