Comments on: Trek XI Scribes Invited Innovative Input Session on Transformers Script

By: BILL BENDER

BILL BENDER — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:04:45 +0000

BILL-I don’t know about the rest of use ,but I ‘M sick of hearing about KIRK AND Spock .the last three movies was about next generation and I would like to see them finished with that . or move on . And I think that the trek fans should have some say in it. because we’re the ones that pay the money to see it. this is like making a movie like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid the early years.

By: CW

CW — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:20:53 +0000

Interesting.
So we can expect Orci to get fan input- then write the exact opposite. Then we can see Kirk portrayed as a female Andorian, and the Enterprise will be depicted as a swiss army knife with all blades and accessories extended.

By: JON

JON — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:06:16 +0000

If this is going to be the last time we see Kirk and Spock (in old age).Please,At least let them finally be married.It would be nice to see each of them away with a beloved .

By: An olde timey fan

An olde timey fan — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:52:40 +0000

All this movie needs is basic market research and maybe a focus group or three drawn from the movie-going public.

(Well, maybe not -that- group after reflecting on the typical Hollywood film!)

All they need to know from the Trekkers is whether or not there will be a backlash, since their endorsement has limited value to the larger audience. Of more value to them would be the opinion of other potential ticker buyers, those who are not necessarily Trekkies or even sci-fi buffs.

A movie like this would seem to be attractive to any number of genres outside of the expected ones: sea-stories (Master & Commander), adventure tales (’National Treasure”, Raiders of the Lost Ark), action-adventure (anything Bond), epics (Braveheart, Gladiator) and probably more. What all movies had in common was a strong sense of plot, plausible suspension of disbelief, and charismatic leading men with apparently strong characters.

Sounds like Star Trek to me.

By: De Baisch

De Baisch — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:57:21 +0000

Au contraire, litenbug. Take a look at the Wikipedia entries on the Transformers and you’ll find there is a lot of canon within that particular universe over the last 20 years.

As far as soliciting fan input for a script, that’s not necessarily a bad thing IF you snag the right type of fans for the job. I’m thinking maybe some of the novel writers, certainly not the fanboys.

By: litenbug

litenbug — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:26:16 +0000

Script-writing by committee….
Transformers has very little “canon” to worry about and I doubt if whatever it does have has no comparison to a 40 year old “universe” that has been built upon show by show, layer by layer.
Were I writing or producing this, I wouldn’t get fan input from any group. If you do, you are trying to please everyone and entertaining no one.

IMO…. Don’t even go there.

By: Captain Pike

Captain Pike — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:40:19 +0000

This writing by committee approach does not inspire me with confidence. If they were real Star Trek fans they would have been planning their ultimate Trek movie for the last 20 years, not the last 4 months.

The effects in Transformers may be amazing. That does not mean the movie will please old school fans of the TV series or the general public. It really leaves be ambivalent about their take on STXI

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:50:06 +0000

Fan input on this film would be a disaster. Stick to talking with the people who originally helped build TOS and stop there. (my two cents only)

By: K-9

K-9 — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:30:58 +0000

Can we rename this site to ThisOldStarship.com ???? :)
HeHe, that would rock! Yeah! Yeah! Fire! Fire! Fire!

By: Vifx Twokay

Vifx Twokay — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:14:22 +0000

To be honest this gives me a bit less confidence in these screenwriters. Many of those other writers wrote fairly broad comedies. How that relates to a major scifi/action movie like Transformers I don’t see… other than broadening it up and dumbing it down. Not exactly the sort of thing you’d want for Trek, is it? Perhaps instead they could consult folks like Nic Meyer, Leonard Nimoy, D.C. Fontana, Peter Allan Fields and Ron Moore for starters. That’s more of a writer’s ‘Dream Team; appropriate to Trek than a bunch of one-liner/gag experts, no?