Comments on: Kurtzman Talks Trek’s Audience Appeal

By: fakesteve

fakesteve — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:22:05 +0000

[22] well, sad fan, all I can hope for is that not a nanosecond of this movie is tainted by the Deadly Years of BermanBragas rule. That is like having a talk with Rummy and Wolfowitz before invading the next country.

Ron Moore is cool, though.

By: roger

roger — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:26:58 +0000

WHAT EXACTLY DID THEY DO WITH MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ?

huh?

By: sad fan

sad fan — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:12:40 +0000

Supossedly ,Berman,Moore,and Bragga were unoficially consulted during some of the very early brainstorming sessions before Orci and Kurtzman finallly decided what direction they wanted to go in on their own.

I have no way of knowing how true that is, but if it is true then it shows that Kurtzman and Orci and Abrams were really leaving no stone unturned as far as investigating the essence of Trek before finally feeling comfortable enough to do their own spin on it.

By: Enterprise

Enterprise — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:21:56 +0000

Well;, In Transformers they explained that the Transformers hacked into the web, and that’s how they learned how to speak.

By: AJ

AJ — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:53:56 +0000

I have an eensie-weensie bit of concern about this film, mostly due to Transformers.

Transformers threw me out of the film as soon as the robots began speaking to one another via speakers. And not only in English, but in snazzy youth-of-today “internet-downloaded” US English speech patterns. I never watched the old shows or collected the products, so this was a first go for me, a TOS Trekker born in 1964.

I only hope Trek XI is not “dumbed down” for a new demographic. Better to “dumb it up,” and maintain Trek’s rep as the pop-culture sci-fi franchise for thinking children of all ages.

Messrs Orci and Kurtzman: You two know exactly what I’m talking about!

Make it great…

By: trekboi

trekboi — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:29:29 +0000

im glad star trek is getting a rebirth- it doesnt erase what came before just gives us something else, new & different.
these geeks have a good chance of delivering it healthy and strong.

By: Enterprise

Enterprise — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:01:09 +0000

Can’t wait to see the first poster. I wonder if it will have the TOS series Enterprise on it?

By: Michael Adams

Michael Adams — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:39:08 +0000

Hulk.

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:28:43 +0000

#15—That remains to be seen.

This movie has more potential for crossover value than any film since TVH.

Nemesis was a TNG movie. Those movies never had any crossover appeal. It was strictly “geeks only” in the theaters. The characters in the original films did. 5 of the 6 films featuring Kirk/Spock/McCoy did well, and 3 of them had mainstream crossover appeal.

Even after TMP did not do what Paramount wanted it to (bring in SW-type numbers), all the studio did was lower the budget that Star Trek films would be allowed (up until now). As a result, they were very profitable at the second tier level.
Standards for the performance of films at the box-office have changed greatly since the last time Star Trek was given a big budget (1979). All this movie needs to do is dominate its opening week and maintain a respectable showing for the next few weeks.
Even if it is without the massive budget afforded for this movie, it is hard to imagine there not being at least two sequels.

By: Michael Adams

Michael Adams — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:02:17 +0000

Right, Bob Orci isn’t the ugly one. Just kidding. Star Trek will be just fine, and I think we fans are really going to like what has been done, but this will be the last Star Trek movie for a long long time if ever, it won’t do too great at the box office and we all know that is what counts.( Nemesis ) Paramount doesn’t care who likes it, as long as they buy tickets. Anyway, without getting into all that stuff that makes Anthony angry with me, it will be a good movie, but it won’t do enough for Paramount, and apart from ST 2 with Abrahms ( or not ) that will be it. Sorry,