SaysWho? Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 https://www.cbr.com/report-star-trek-4-shelved/? Quote Star Trek fans are in for a bit of bad news. The long-gestating Star Trek 4, the planned sequel to 2016's Star Trek Beyond, appears to have been put on indefinite hold. The news comes from Deadline, who's reporting that the movie has been shelved following the departure of its director, SJ Clarkson, who has just been recruited by HBO to helm and executive produce its secretive Game of Thrones spinoff/prequel pilot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 I had heard that the director was picked up by HBO because they were free, indicating ST4 had been put on hold prior to HBO reaching out. Apparently there have been contract disputes with Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth. The studio not wanting to honor previously renegotiated contract rates due to Beyond under performing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 I need to watch Beyond at some point. I enjoyed the other more recent movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokt Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 18 minutes ago, DarkStar189 said: I need to watch Beyond at some point. I enjoyed the other more recent movies. Unpopular opinion but its my least favorite of the 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 36 minutes ago, Nokt said: Unpopular opinion but its my least favorite of the 3. Same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Star Trek Into Darkness is an awful film so Star Trek Beyond by default is second best of the nu-universe Star Trek films. I enjoyed Beyond, but its first half is a lot better than its second half. Was a definite step up in terms of character and story over Into Darkness though. I'm sad to see Star Trek 4 get shelved over something like this - would have been curious to see that cast together for another sci-fi adventure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbobo Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Beyond was my favorite of the new films, it was just a good dumb fun. Into Darkness was horrible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Man, I can't imagine why these movies turned out poorly... JJ Abrams: "Star Trek felt too philosophical" Wil Wheaton: "That's the whole point." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 47 minutes ago, Jason said: Man, I can't imagine why these movies turned out poorly... To be fair, everyone knew even before J.J. Abrams was hired to direct Star Trek 2009 that he was always a big Star Wars fan, not Star Trek fan (though I take umbrage with him implying there that Star Trek was too philosophical for him but Star Wars isn't philosophical then?) and that it was writing duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman that were the big Trek fans, not the director. But those gifs perfectly describe J.J.'s directing style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 I enjoyed but never loved these movie Treks. I just hope that they don't abandon the franchise. Unlike most overstuffed franchises, I keep wanting more. There are so many ways to do Trek, though I wonder if they could ever do a take that wasn't Kirk or Picard without a successful TV series launching it first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 38 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said: (though I take umbrage with him implying there that Star Trek was too philosophical for him but Star Wars isn't philosophical then?) This isn’t really controversial at all to me. Compared to the better Trek episodes and movies, Star Wars is not philosophical at all. There’s some discussion about turning Vader in RotJ but other than that the original Star Wars movies are straight up black vs. white, good vs. evil. Kirk and the gang have to make difficult decisions pretty regularly, Luke and friends almost never do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 1 minute ago, Kal-El814 said: This isn’t really controversial at all to me. Compared to the better Trek episodes and movies, Star Wars is not philosophical at all. There’s some discussion about turning Vader in RotJ but other than that the original Star Wars movies are straight up black vs. white, good vs. evil. Kirk and the gang have to make difficult decisions pretty regularly, Luke and friends almost never do. No, I agree with you, but his implication could be taken to mean that Star Wars is not philosophical to a fault, which is why he'd be a fan of it over Star Trek and I think that's unfair to Star Wars. Star Trek is of course the far more philosophical of the two (normally). Just reading the tea leaves, could be way off base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 40 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said: No, I agree with you, but his implication could be taken to mean that Star Wars is not philosophical to a fault, which is why he'd be a fan of it over Star Trek and I think that's unfair to Star Wars. Star Trek is of course the far more philosophical of the two (normally). Just reading the tea leaves, could be way off base. Ah fair enough, I hear you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 1 hour ago, TwinIon said: I enjoyed but never loved these movie Treks. I just hope that they don't abandon the franchise. Unlike most overstuffed franchises, I keep wanting more. There are so many ways to do Trek, though I wonder if they could ever do a take that wasn't Kirk or Picard without a successful TV series launching it first. It wouldn't shock me if this has something to do with the movie being shelved: CBS’ CEO Search On Back Burner Amidst Push For New Viacom Merger Talks The Viacom/CBS split resulted in the rights to Trek being split along movie/TV lines, and I think part of the motivation for the JJ movies was not having to coordinate with CBS. So if Viacom and CBS shacking back up is realistic then it could help kill the motivation for making these JJverse movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbobo Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 remerging could solve some Discovery's issues, seems like a lot of the changes are mandated legally by the separation between CBS and Viacom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 1 minute ago, elbobo said: remerging could solve some Discovery's issues, seems like a lot of the changes are mandated legally by the separation between CBS and Viacom What changes in Discovery were mandated by CBS and Viacom being separated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbobo Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 4 minutes ago, Jason said: What changes in Discovery were mandated by CBS and Viacom being separated? https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-trek-discoverys-version-of-the-enterprise-had-to-1825276401 it is really weird stuff like the Enterprise has to look 25% different from the TOS look and people are assuming that this may have been what led to at least some of the other style changes in the series, obviously some of them were just intentional updating 50 year old designs/effects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 11 minutes ago, Jason said: It wouldn't shock me if this has something to do with the movie being shelved: CBS’ CEO Search On Back Burner Amidst Push For New Viacom Merger Talks The Viacom/CBS split resulted in the rights to Trek being split along movie/TV lines, and I think part of the motivation for the JJ movies was not having to coordinate with CBS. So if Viacom and CBS shacking back up is realistic then it could help kill the motivation for making these JJverse movies. Maybe. The real problem is they just don't make enough money. I imagine the dream after a merger would be to have the TV shows and the movies make money from each other. As it stands, I don't think the Trek films really push many All Access subs, and I doubt Disco would do much for Trek 4 ticket sales. Still, it's kind of hard to imagine getting to that place even after a merger. We've seen how difficult it's been for the MCU to push cross platform content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbobo Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 yeah beyond was at best a disappointment if not full on flop and the 4th movie would have seen big pay increases for the cast. Trek movies don't need to be massive budget summer block busters. First Contact easily the best of the TNG movies was made on a budget of 45,000,000 that is about 72,000,000 in today's money. Beyond's budget was 185,000,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 13 minutes ago, TwinIon said: Maybe. The real problem is they just don't make enough money. I imagine the dream after a merger would be to have the TV shows and the movies make money from each other. As it stands, I don't think the Trek films really push many All Access subs, and I doubt Disco would do much for Trek 4 ticket sales. Still, it's kind of hard to imagine getting to that place even after a merger. We've seen how difficult it's been for the MCU to push cross platform content. Maybe they don't make enough money because the marketing for them is pathetic--look at how the 50th anniversary was bungled. CBS and Paramount Royally Screwed Up Star Trek's 50th Anniversary Quote Of course, CBS and Paramount have had the whole year to celebrate Star Trek’s anniversary and done virtually nothing with it. Paramount, which owns the rights to the movies, had the chance to make Star Trek Beyond into its own Skyfall, another movie that was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its franchise. Certainly, cowriters Simon Pegg and Doug Jung peppered Beyond with enough callbacks to the original TV shows that it could have easily worked as an anniversary film, had Paramount marketed it as such. Early on in Beyond’s production, it actually seemed like Paramount was planning exactly that. In 2014, Paramount announced that the film would premiere in 2016, coinciding with the 50th anniversary. And it stuck to that date, even through a director change and several rejected scripts. Everything should have lined up for Beyond to take advantage of the anniversary. But then something changed. The first trailer for Star Trek Beyond was released in December, 2015. Nothing more was heard about the film for ages, until Paramount announced it would premiere a new trailer at a special “fan event” on May 20, 2016. And while the cast and crew were willing to talk about Beyond in terms of the anniversary, nothing in the promotional material for the film mentioned it. The closest thing to an acknowledgment we got was a poster which clearly invoked The Motion Picture: Even stranger, the movie’s release date was pushed back from July 8 to July 22, when they could have pushed it even further and actually pegged it to this week’s anniversary. Then they could have also used San Diego Comic-Con to bring out the cast to promote it, especially since they didn’t have anything the previous year. What did we get instead? A commercial which revealed one of the big twists of the movie and was so bad that the writer/star said not to watch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 22 minutes ago, Jason said: Maybe they don't make enough money because the marketing for them is pathetic--look at how the 50th anniversary was bungled. I'm sure marketing played a big part of it, but in the end it kinda doesn't matter. The Trek reboots have a stacked cast, a massive budget, and some pretty capable directors, and after three tries they couldn't keep making money. The first made the most in the US with $257M, but it's been downhill from there to the $158M of Beyond. That might be a salvageable series, but not with worldwide barely moving from $128M to $184M. Compare it to the Mission Impossible films, put out by the same studio, and while the US grosses haven't risen much, the overseas take keeps those movies quite profitable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Man, looking at the final box offices tallies of each movie (both domestic and international), Beyond really did deserve to do better than it did - it was a better movie than many that have done better at the box office. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury33 Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 I really liked all 3 a lot 🤷🏻♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anzo Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 On 1/11/2019 at 3:39 PM, Nokt said: Unpopular opinion but its my least favorite of the 3. I agree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Exclusive: Star Trek 4 Is Cancelled, Paramount No Longer Making Star Trek Movies WWW.GIANTFREAKINROBOT.COM Star Trek is dead. Or at least in movie form. Paramount was at one point working on three different Star Trek movie ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chairslinger Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Jason said: Exclusive: Star Trek 4 Is Cancelled, Paramount No Longer Making Star Trek Movies WWW.GIANTFREAKINROBOT.COM Star Trek is dead. Or at least in movie form. Paramount was at one point working on three different Star Trek movie ideas. I never cared for the reboots at all, but even if you enjoyed the first one it's pretty clear to me it was a nostalgia act that never had more than one movie's worth of, "Hey, remember Star Trek..." enjoyment. That article has it exactly right. Any future movie should be predicated on a series organically blowing up as big as TNG did in the 90's. And even then, it's more a matter of "could" than "should". Movies have always been a shitty format for Star Trek. I think the only current concept for a Star Trek project that would have to be a movie that I would like is some kind of time travel story that unites all 5 of the "big" captains. Generations makes me worry that it might not turn out great. But with Shatner and Sir Baldy reaching 90 and 80 respectively it's kind of now or never. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 8 minutes ago, Chairslinger said: it's pretty clear to me it was a nostalgia act that never had more than one movie's worth of, "Hey, remember Star Trek..." enjoyment. So you're saying it was a JJ Abrams movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 17 minutes ago, Chairslinger said: I think the only current concept for a Star Trek project that would have to be a movie that I would like is some kind of time travel story that unites all 5 of the "big" captains. Generations makes me worry that it might not turn out great. But with Shatner and Sir Baldy reaching 90 and 80 respectively it's kind of now or never. Well, one, there's probably zero chance they get Avery Brooks back. But beyond that, I think what always hampered the movies was having to be standalone stories, especially in the TNG era. Now that connected media universes are all the rage I think it solves the main problem, which was that it's hard to get us to care about the pew pew action movie stuff in a Star Trek movie if there's no buildup to it. Imagine if Enterprise had kept going and had gotten an Enterprise movie that took place between seasons (or during a mid-season break) that was about a key battle in the Earth-Romulan War. Or for crossing streams more, say, a TNG movie that was about the Enterprise going off on some crucial mission for the Dominion War contemporaneously with one of DS9's later seasons (maybe getting Worf on the Enterprise by just picking him up at DS9). Then it'd be fine if the movies were just pew pew action movie stuff because they'd be payoff for things we'd already had time to get invested in, instead of how the movies always miss the point and assume we like the big space battle stuff in and of itself and not as payoff, and sidestep the issue that they probably simply don't have enough time to make it feel like worthwhile payoff in a self-contained two hour movie. The fact that CBS and Viacom are now reunited means it's at least possible—IIRC the way the rights got split between TV and movies had something like Viacom didn't need to let CBS have creative input (and share the profits) as long as it was mostly TOS era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 Maybe instead of using the TV show's characters and then rebooting same characters with different actors they just make a whole new Star Trek crew and make it a movie only crew that way you can keep the series going and it's super fresh and original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted September 24, 2020 Author Share Posted September 24, 2020 8 hours ago, Jason said: Well, one, there's probably zero chance they get Avery Brooks back. Huh, really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 9 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: Maybe instead of using the TV show's characters and then rebooting same characters with different actors they just make a whole new Star Trek crew and make it a movie only crew that way you can keep the series going and it's super fresh and original. I don't understand. Are there at least Fast and the Furious characters in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted September 24, 2020 Share Posted September 24, 2020 The last film was shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdeaOfEvil Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Into Darkness was pure shit. I thought the last one (Beyond?) was a great attempt at moving the franchise back to the random formula of the original Star Trek series that mixed the crew characters up with each other and told it's own unique story (minus the whole "Hey look, someone wants revenge against the Federation" villain)... And I was so hoping these new movies would have at least given us a great potpourri of ideas if the writers were so intent on rehashing old plots... What if Starfleet did push out farther in space to find Khan earlier than the original series, but then they got the attention of the Borg at the same time somehow? What if Khan then needed to team up with Kirk to take on the ultimate threat? What if Mudd conned his way on the the Enterprise and replaced 50% of the crew with clone machines, and we had an invasion of the body snatchers scenario? What if Kirk did die and there was a story about trying to clone him back to life (versus the original Ponfar Spock idea)? What if the Klingons and Romulans did team up and killed off most of the Federation and Kirk was in a type of situation that we saw Riker and the future Enterprise in the Parallels episode of TNG? Since these movies just wanted to rehash old ideas, there was so much potential for a fun "What if...?" mixture of ideas. It's a shame, but at the same time I never took the JJ-verse of Star Trek as serious and respected as I did all the original movies, so these never bothered me as being anything official to canon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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