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posted on April 18th, 2006, 5:26 pm
Brace Yourself: Move Star Trek XI Rumors
SyFyPortal has an interview up with Erik Jendresen was given the task of writing Star Trek XI: The Beginning, a script Jendresen says was the victim of "regime change" at Paramount. However, while the project may have been stalled, it's not necessarily dead.
Jendresen explains that the concept of the film is to fill the "void" between the end of ENT and the beginning of TOS by focusing on Kirk's progenitor, Tiberius Chase. The film would then be the first of a trilogy centered around the formation of the Federation.
”There is a producer at Paramount who has been championing this and the notion that we have the opportunity to plug the gap with this trilogy," Jendresen says.
We'll have to see.
http://scifi.about.com/b/a/257329.htm
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has run the gamut of Gene Roddenberry's universe. The last series, "Enterprise," went where no "Trek" has gone before, basing its premise entirely on the original Enterprise and its crew, taking us back in time rather than forward. "Star Trek XI: The Beginning" was primed to follow suit with the series, but with "Enterprise" having fallen far short of hopes attached to it, it is almost a harbinger of trouble for the eleventh "Trek" film.
Writer Erik Jendresen told SyFy Portal that while enthusiasm around the project was high because of the exciting premise, the chance to tell the story behind the events that started the Romulan War, the movie is now stuck in studio limbo. Jendresen does not seem happy about the stall, commenting that they were going to finally cover the untold tale. "We [had] a chance here to fill in the canon, and to create a continuum ostensibly from the beginning from 'Enterprise' all the way out to the future."
The latest installment in the movie franchise was intended to be a trilogy that could be likened to the hype and cult level of the "Star Wars" prequels. The three films were to take place in the chronological gap left between the years 2164 and 2233. It would have followed the ancestor of James T. Kirk, Tiberius Chase, through the Romulan War in all its excessive violence that supposedly would have been too graphic for "Enterprise," which would put Jendresen right in his element since he also wrote "Band of Brothers" for HBO. Also, out of the bloody and horrific war was to emerge the United Federation of Planets.
But, why the past tense? This project is trapped in production stasis, but it is far from being officially dead. Though, Jendresen gives the impression that this may as well be the case. The real status of "Trek XI" rests in the hands of the new command at Paramount. The former co-president of the studio David DeLine had been leading the prequel movement. However, once Jendresen finished the script, there was a new woman by the name of Gail Berman steering the ship, leaving "The Beginning" lost in the shuffle. Neither Berman nor Paramount is abandoning the trilogy proposal, but they are trying to explore all their options for the next step made by one of the largest franchises in entertainment history.
The last "Trek" movie to hit theaters, "Nemesis," pulled in $67 million worldwide. Since that was back in 2002 and this is first time in a long time that the franchise can't claim at least one running television show, another "Trek" film is sure to be on its way soon enough. Whether or not it will be "The Beginning" is just too soon to tell. But, the concept of this trilogy is different and significant enough, delving into an untapped region of this universe's history with Kirk's ancestor leading the way, that it may be the smartest way to invigorate the existing fans and beam up some new ones.
http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_8315.html
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Star Trek XI Status, or Lack Thereof &nsbp; &nsbp;
Written by Scott Collura
Friday, 14 April 2006
Star Trek has been dead in space, so to speak, pretty much since the release of that last mediocre Next Generation feature film in 2002 – what was it called again? Yes, Enterprise continued to limp along on UPN until last year, but watching that show was generally akin to tracing the last moments of Khan before he blew up the Genesis device: the anti-matter was leaking, the blood was pouring, and the cheese factor was at 11.
Yet even after the cancellation of Enterprise and the poor box office performance of that last Next Gen film, Paramount persisted in trying to keep the franchise afloat. A script for a proposed eleventh film was commissioned, with Erik Jendresen (best known for his Emmy-winning work on HBO’s Band of Brothers) coming in to pen the tale, a prequel to the Kirk era of Star Trek but a sequel to Enterprise. The project was announced, but there was very little by way of follow-up on the status of the script.
Now, however, genre site SyFy Portal has nabbed an interview with Jendresen this week, wherein the writer reveals that the film, titled Star Trek: The Beginning, is pretty much a no-go for the time being.
“[It was a] classic case of Hollywood regime change,” Jendresen says, obviously referring to the ascension by exec Brad Grey as the big man at Paramount. “A project is greenlighted by one regime, and by the time it’s delivered, there’s a coup d’état. … Essentially, what’s being said is true. This [project] is ‘dead’ because it’s not moving forward. It’s like a shark. It has got to keep moving or it’s dead.”
The scripter still hopes that the film will come to be made at some point, and he says that there is a producer at Paramount who has been championing the project (though one hopes it’s not Rick Berman, who’s the producer responsible for driving Star Trek into the ground in the first place). Still, the film sounds like it could be interesting, with its depiction of the founding of the United Federation of Planets and the often-discussed Romulan War.
“The notion was to do a prequel to the original series and fill that void [between Enterprise and Classic Trek] with, ostensibly, a trilogy,” Jendresen says. “Three films, which all would deal with Kirk’s progenitor, a man by the name of Tiberius Chase.”
Ah jeez. Does that mean it’s Kirk’s grandfather or something? Suddenly, not so interesting.
http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/3563/2/
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tar Trek Not Dead Yet?
Posted Apr 14th 2006 4:09PM by Mark Beall
Filed under: Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, RumorMonger, Fandom, Scripts & Screenwriting, Remakes and Sequels
Remember the "OMG NEW STAR TREK" versus "Star Trek is on the trash heap of history" rumor debate flying back and forth a few months ago? Suggestions on the possible plot of a theoretical new Trek movie flew fast and loose, and denials of particular plots, new movies in general, and the entire existence of the Star Trek franchise came almost as quickly. Eventually the dust settled and we learned, well, mostly that the people in charge just aren't sure they feel comfortable with a new Trek flick. And so the hopes of many a dedicated fan were dashed.
As it turns out, a pretty solid plan was in place for a new Star Trek installment, according to its writer Erik Jendresen. Jendresen has recently said he did indeed complete a draft of a film called Star Trek: The Beginning, which would "take place between the end of the series and the original adventures. He says the idea was being positioned for a possible trilogy, and would in some large part center around the Romulan Wars from Trek mythology." However, a power shift at Paramount apparently left the project without many supporters, and it now dwells in the land of the unknown.
http://www.cinematical.com/2006/04/14/star...k-not-dead-yet/
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posted on April 21st, 2006, 2:19 pm
It seems to be official.
Star Trek XI is due to be released 2008.
director: J.J.Abrams
Sotry: young kirk and spock in academy. -No joke, sorry-
Source: (German)
http://www.treknews.de/treknews/newspro-tr...62488029126.php
Star Trek XI is due to be released 2008.
director: J.J.Abrams
Sotry: young kirk and spock in academy. -No joke, sorry-
Source: (German)
http://www.treknews.de/treknews/newspro-tr...62488029126.php
posted on April 21st, 2006, 3:26 pm
that will be soooooo bad it not ture! 
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posted on April 23rd, 2006, 1:56 am
Eleventh 'Star Trek' in the works
ROBERT JABLON
Globe and Mail Update
Mission: Impossible III director J.J. Abrams is going from Cruise control to warp speed.
A couple of weeks before the arrival of Tom Cruise and M:I3, Abrams has committed to produce the eleventh Star Trek feature film and there are plans for him to direct as well, Paramount Pictures announced Friday.
Abrams also will write the script with his Mission Impossible III co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Paramount spokeswoman Nancy Kirkpatrick said.
The studio is hoping to release the new Star Trek film in 2008.
No plot for the movie has been nailed down and no one has been cast for the film.
The Star Trek franchise covers several centuries of a future in which humans make their way in a universe populated by a bewildering variety of aliens, from the ultra-logical Vulcans to the merciless, hive-like Borg. The starship Enterprise in various incarnations was the focus of the original series and many of the movies. Two Star Trek TV series followed the exploits aboard a space station called Deep Space Nine and a marooned spaceship, Voyager.
Abrams created the hit ABC series Lost and Paramount hopes that Lost producers Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk will produce the movie, Kirkpatrick said.
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy portrayed Kirk and Spock in the original Star Trek TV show in the 1960s and in numerous movies but "they have not yet been approached," Kirkpatrick said.
Shatner, 75, currently stars in the hit series "Boston Legal" winning an Emmy for his role as an egotistical attorney.
Star Trek movies have grossed more than $1-billion (U.S.) but the last one, Star Trek: Nemesis, four years ago did relatively weak box office and got tepid reviews, while the last TV incarnation, Star Trek: Enterprise, was ratings-challenged and was cancelled last year.
With the new movie, "we certainly are hoping to bring Star Trek back to its former glory," Kirkpatrick said.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ertainment/home
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J.J. Abrams directs Star Trek movie
By Colin Mahan - TV.com
April 21, 2006 at 11:39:00 AM | more stories by this author
Lost creator's new mission impossible--revive flagging franchise.
The original Star Trek.
Star Trek is being revved up for another big-screen treatment, slated to appear in 2008. According to Variety, the new film will be directed by Lost creator and Mission: Impossible III director J.J. Abrams.
The new film will focus on the origins of the characters James T. Kirk and Spock, made famous in the original series and films by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, respectively. The script will be written by Abrams and MI3 writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
The film will feature the first meeting between the two characters, when they are cadets at Starfleet Academy, as a futuristic version of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" plays on the soundtrack. The cadets embark on their first adventure together, a space mission wherein Kirk does his first sideways jump-kick. Presumably, younger actors will be cast in the roles.
The deal with Paramount comes only weeks before the release of the company's mega-budget summer action picture, MI3, starring Tom Cruise, which is also based on a popular '60s TV show.
Abrams is the creative force behind the hit shows Alias and Lost. The spy show Alias will wrap in May after five seasons of solid performance. Sophomore show Lost is one of TV's top hits, routinely placing in the Nielsen top 10.
Star Trek is one of the most profitable entertainment franchises in history, having produced five series, 700-plus TV episodes, and more than $1 billion in theatrical revenues.
The original Trek premiered on NBC in 1966 to mediocre ratings. The show was canceled after three seasons, even though the storyline was that of the Starship Enterprise on a "five-year mission." In 1979, Paramount launched a big-budget film franchise, eventually making six films with the original cast. The highest grossing of the original six was 1986's Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which saw the crew head back in time to modern-day San Francisco to find whales and learn "colorful metaphors" like "double dumb-*** on you." The film earned almost $110 million at the box office.
A Saturday-morning animated series premiered in 1973 and ran for two seasons. The show featured the voices of original cast members Shatner, Nimoy, DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy, James Doohan as engineer Scotty, Nichelle Nicols as communications officer Lt. Uhura, George Takei as navigator Lt. Sulu, and Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel.
In 1987, a second series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, aired in syndication and ran for seven seasons. The series was set 95 years after the first and featured a new Enterprise, a new crew, and souped-up special effects. ST:TNG was responsible for working the word "wormhole" into the cultural lexicon. Four movies were made with the Next Generation cast, the most successful being 1996's First Contact, about the inventor of the warp drive and the origin of the hive-like villains the Borg. The film grossed $92 million.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine premiered in 1993 and ran for seven seasons. This series chronicled the inhabitants of a space outpost, Deep Space 9, that sat at the edge of a wormhole. Michael Dorn, who played the Klingon Worf in Next Generation, joined DS9 in season four.
Star Trek: Voyager premiered in 1995, also running for seven seasons. The show told the story of the Starship Voyager and its crew, led by Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway. While in pursuit of an enemy ship, the Voyager was thrown through a wormhole and ended up lost in uncharted space. This series featured the return of the condescending Vulcan, in the form of Tuvok.
In 2001, Star Trek: Enterprise premiered, telling the story of the Federation before the events of the first series. The show never generated much love from fans, partially due to a cheesy theme song that was reminiscent of Bon Jovi. It folded after four seasons.
The last Next Generation movie, Nemesis, landed in theaters in 2002 and grossed a meager $43 million. Industry insiders concluded that Star Trek was suffering from a newly discovered malady known as "franchise fatigue."
Lost and Star Trek have at least one thing in common. Both shows have inspired legions of fanatical fans--Star Trek has Trekkies or Trekkers, and Lost has Losties. Paramount hopes Abrams can get the two together at the box office.
http://www.tv.com/story/story.html&story_id=4215
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