Berman Confirms Star Trek Prequel Film Project 554
Steve Krutzler writes "TrekWeb can break the news STAR TREK producer Rick Berman has confirmed that work on a new STAR TREK feature film project has begun. Speaking in the new Dreamwatch magazine, Berman describes it cryptically as a "prequel" and says he's working with two other producers on the project."
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By Steve Krutzler / 12:42, 22 April 2004 / General Star Trek
After over a year of silence on the future of the STAR TREK feature film franchise, producer Rick Berman has finally dropped the first hints of a new theatrical project for the franchise. The news comes in the new issue of Dreamwatch magazine, just coming out in the UK.
Speaking in issue #117, Berman confirms for the first time that he is now developing a STAR TREK feature film project: "I am involved in the very early stages of what could be the next STAR TRKE movie," reveals Berman, in an excerpt provided by Dreamwatch. "It's something I will be producing with two other producers."
Unwilling to offer many details he cryptically describes it as "a prequel" without any further elaboration. The names of his producing cohorts will have to remain unknown for now, as well. This follows a report earlier this week from Dark Horizons that Paramount may be working on a project the site described as "Starfleet Academy." Coincidentially, former TREK producer Harve Bennett (STAR TREKs II-VI) revealed recently that several years ago he had pitched a Starfleet Academy-based STAR TREK movie concept.
On the television front, while the future of their first series remains in limo, Berman confirms that he is developing a non-STAR TREK sci-fi series with partner Brannon Braga. Both Berman and Braga have development deals with Paramount. If a new series begins development in earnest, TrekWeb insiders suggest Berman and/or Braga might take a reduced role in an adults-only supermarionation version of ENTERPRISE, though this is entirely speculation.
For the full interview and much more, check out issue #117 of Dreamwatch magazine in the United Kingdom.
Star Fleet Command? (Score:5, Informative)
Seeking Writers: "Pro Nanny, "Au Pair", "Paranoia", "Star Fleet Command", "Stranger in a Strangeland", "Homeland Security", Peter Weir's "War Magician", Tony Scott's "Warriors" and an untitled Johnny Knoxville project
Re:In related news... (Score:3, Informative)
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have their ashes put aboard a rocket and "buried" in space. [anomalies-unlimited.com]
Re:Prolly Not TNG (Score:5, Informative)
Re:In related news... (Score:2, Informative)
You can't dig up his corpse; his ashes are in orbit.
At least they were until they burned up in re-entry, which was probably two or three years ago:
"Celestis Inc., a Texas-based company, said [Roddenberry's and Timothy Leary's] ashes, along with those of 22 other fans of space exploration, were on board... a Pegasus rocket was launched from a Lockheed L-1011 jetliner 36,000 feet (11,000 meters) over the Canary Islands.
"Each of the 24 "passengers" were placed into a vial the size of a lipstick holder. Their ashes will orbit the Earth for six years before they re-enter the atmosphere and burn up."
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9704/21/spain.leary/ [cnn.com]Re:Rest easy..... (Score:3, Informative)
He turned down somebody writing a fanfic to do it, based on prior experience with Kzinti fanfic.
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:5, Informative)
Lovecraft coined the phrase (Score:3, Informative)
H.P.Lovecraft did this in the 1920s:
"At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets and cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs, nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath."
Re:Prequel? Oh boy... (Score:1, Informative)
But even worse, was the horrible hack job that the studio did to get it down to that brief running length (what was that, 80 minutes?). Anything from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours of footage just place excised). You can see just how little they cared about actually producing anything from the DVD. The "deleted footage" scenes don't even have FX added, so they were hacked out before the thing even went to post production. The endless droning of the director in the commentary about "we didn't have enough money to do this scene right".
Do not misunderstand me, I think Nemesis was a bag of trash. But I can't help but wonder what "might have been" had things gone through differently.
Re:In other news (Score:3, Informative)
I fact, if they make a star trek prequel, I'd like to see one about the liberation of Bejorr. I doubt it would happen (since flashbacks have pretty much told this story), but it could be interesting.
To boldly split the infinitive (Score:3, Informative)
Factual correction (Score:3, Informative)
Nick Meyer did not direct Star Trek IV. It was directed by Leonard Nimoy, who also directed Star Trek III. (You can see this on the IMDb page for ST IV [imdb.com].) Nicholas Meyer is one of four people with screenplay credits on ST IV.
Incidentally, Star Trek II was not Nicholas Meyer's directorial debut either; that was the movie Time After Time [imdb.com], which is one of my all-time favorites. (Premise: H.G. Wells really builds a time machine, and uses it to pursue Jack the Ripper to the 1970s.)
But yeah, Meyer did a lot of work on Star Trek, both directing and writing. He knows what works and what doesn't. I think he'd be an excellent replacement for Rick-f**king-Berman.
Sulu? (Score:2, Informative)