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Post by Gojitron on Aug 20, 2018 21:23:29 GMT -5
The last two Trek films have all cost more, but made less than, the previous film. The plan for the fourth film was to have some sort of time travel story where Kirk meets his father. It's been reported that Paramount was hoping to reduce the previously promised salaries for the actors to get costs down, but both Chris's, Pine and Hemsworth, were not having it and have dropped out. The rest of the cast may follow suit, but without Kirk this puts the future of this iteration of the film franchise in doubt. So, if the Kelvin timeline quietly dies, will any of you miss it?
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Post by machsabre on Aug 20, 2018 22:39:13 GMT -5
Not particularly. I get why JJ Abrams did what he did... But honestly, I'd rather move forward in the future. Venture back to the Prime timeline and pick a slot that's like a century or two in the future, and go and develop it from there.
Honestly, I'm frickin' sick of prequels.
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Post by iacon45 on Aug 21, 2018 0:40:11 GMT -5
Honestly, I'd kind of miss it. The Kelvin series did help revitalize the franchise during a pretty low point in its history. But if this is it, I think that Beyond's ending had a good enough finale feel to it that it felt like a good stopping spot. Also would be hard for it to continue anyway with Anton Yelchin's passing. He was a good Chekov and would be missed.
I'm with Mach. I'd like them to take it in a new direction and new territory where they could have a clean slate instead of working in and around previous canons.
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Post by Greatshot on Aug 21, 2018 14:16:19 GMT -5
IMO Beyond is really the only one that "feels" like Star Trek. The 2nd one sucks (what they did to Kahn is unforgivable plus if you're doing a remake/reboot, why pick the one storyline that the original NAILED? Dumb.), the original I said when they made it "feels like JJ made/would make a good Star Wars movie instead. Was right, apparently not alone in this thought. But yeah, without the Neo-TOS crew so to speak, what's the point in continuing.
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Post by triumshockwave on Aug 21, 2018 18:05:41 GMT -5
If it was all we had of Star Trek, I might be a little upset. But with Discovery and the forthcoming Picard series... meh. I'm fine with a trilogy. I originally thought they were done after Beyond anyway. Also, without active development of the films on the Paramount side, it clears up some of the trademark horseshit for CBS for a while. Evidently the only reason it took as long as it did to get a new TV series is that Paramount didn't want it stealing any thunder from the films.
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Post by SporkBot on Aug 21, 2018 19:27:53 GMT -5
Though I read this idea a few weeks back, it seems to me that if they can't get both Hemsworth and Pine, stick with the latter, don't reduce his salary, and work on another story that doesn't involve time-travel (again).
If they wanted to focus on an entirely new crew taking over the Enterprise, or another vessel altogether, I'd wager it'd be simply to keep to the Kelvin Timeline, since theatrically speaking, that's the one people are used to, and the alternative is to say, "hey, remember the original Star Trek Timeline, with Picard and Sisko and Janeway? Well, this takes place somewhere in there, so...don't get confused!"
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