Star Trek: XI Another Flop?
Everyone thought that with the horrible box office results of Star Trek: Nemesis, that the Star Trek movie franchise would die off, but with so many of the different Star Trek shows not having their own feature film, everyone wondered if Star Trek: Voyager or maybe Star Trek: Enterprise would get a movie.
It looks though like Star Trek: XI will be a prequel movie, but not as far back in the Star Trek timeline as Enterprise was, instead going back to Kirk and crew, either with them in the Academy, or their first mission together.
I have to admit that I am not liking where the Star Trek universe is heading as Rick Berman continues to take Star Trek to the pre-TOS era.
The prequel film has not been given the official green light for production yet, but the word is that it will be getting a thumbs up from Paramount in December or January. If they do green light it, you can expect to see Star Trek: XI sometime in the summer of 2008.
The word online is that Abrams, one of the producers of the upcoming movie, is already interviewing potential cast members. The characters being portrayed apparently being a young Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty. I really hope they pick some unknowns to play the characters because if I see Matt Damon as Kirk, I will never watch any Star Trek again.
I am still hoping that something crazy happens and a storyline about cadet Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty is given the shaft. I am going to Keep my fingers crossed.
Jason Moriarty said,
Wrote on March 29, 2007 @ 9:48 pm
It seems like Star Trek XI is going to use the original Star Trek VI script: Starfleet Academy. It went into development hell because the franchise owners wanted to make original cast films rather than just have original casts narrate the film (Kirk tells the story to a recent Academy class). I bet they just dusted off the old script. At least we can rest assured that Roger Rabbit 2: Toon Platoon’s script will never get the same treatment… or can we?