Comments on: Trouble Ahead for JJ Abrams Paramount Benefactor?

By: Anthony Pascale

Anthony Pascale — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:01:13 +0000

by the way…just two weeks before Redstone fired Grey\’s boss, he told the Wall street journal that he \’could not conceive\’ of letting Freston go. Perhaps it was an immaculate conception

By: DB

DB — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:46:50 +0000

Well, I’m not going to panic. I’d really like to see Abrams do a “Star Trek” movie right now, but I also watched Paramount start and stop and start and stop a seemingly endless number of Trek projects between 1975 and 1979. Warner Bros over took ten years to figure out how to handle “Superman” once they finally decided to revive that franchise, and nearly as long to recover from the last Schumacher “Batman” fiasco. So if this version of the Trek project turns out to be the beginning of a long road rather than the fast-track project that it appears to be at the moment, it’ll just be business-as-usual.

Still, Grey seems already to have dodged a bullet on the Pelicano thing, so perhaps his life is charmed. ;)

By: Anthony Pascale

Anthony Pascale — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:07:27 +0000

RE: The Trek Report
actually been thinking about that…but I want this site to be the number one site for the film and not just another general Trek site. I welcome feedback

RE: What now
as i said don\’t panic. Remember that studio head changes are nothing new, Trek of course has endured quite a few regimes in its 40 years and multiple corporate Masters…Starting with Lucille Ball. But there is no denying that Star Trek XI would not exist if it werent for Brad Grey…he is the one that went after Abrams and the one that agreed to let Abrams have Trek as part of his overall deal. He has a lot riding on Abrams and Trek Xi…and it is true that if he goes then his successor does have the issue of not being able to truly benefit from Trek XI since it is so associated with Grey.

RE: HP article
well of course the new chief would say that…but the FT article follows that and mentions that things arent so clear that Grey is safe. As I said, no need to panic yet, but if Grey goes and/or he is put on a short leash, it may effect some of his pet projects (like Trek XI)

By: DB

DB — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:59:18 +0000

The Hollywood Reporter has a paragraph referring to Grey buried about halfway down their article on Freston’s departure. It reads:

“Asked about potential further management changes at the corporate and unit level, Dauman said he hopes to keep the Viacom team together and already had talked with Paramount Pictures boss Brad Grey, MTV Networks head Judy McGrath and BET leader Debra Lee. He “expects they will stay,” Dauman said.”

The article is here:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003087136

By: By-Tor

By-Tor — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:09:17 +0000

I agree that it’s not time to panic, but this is still bad news indeed. When a new exec comes in (as may well happen here), anything in development is in serious jeoparday. Why? Because if it succeeds, the new guy can’t really take credit, but if it flops s/he will certainly get hit with the blame. So there’s a huge tendency in hollywood to kill projects already in development.

This doesn’t even consider the whole Brad-J.J. connection.

Fingers crossed, but I’m not feeling great about this…

By: OtterVomit

OtterVomit — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:02:40 +0000

Paramount just continues to be a big mess. Here’s hoping they get things straightened out over there and when the dust settles, its a Trek-friendly environment!

By: Duane Boda

Duane Boda — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:49:10 +0000

Ok….what now? Perhaps those who hold the keys to the Star Trek home (so to speak) should just forget it all. It seems that they couldn’t find their *** with both hands and a flashlight,
Those who maintain this site should perhaps rename it: The Trek Report…that would be more fitting.
They DO have a great idea with updating the original series so why not stick with that idea and redo
all of the series? That would be a step in the right direction – wouldn’t some of you agree on that?