New Trek Movie...
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"Star Trek XI" Cancelled?
Posted: Monday February 27th, 2006 12:10pm
Source: Trekweb
Author: Garth Franklin
The latest issue of Dreamwatch spoke with producer Rick Berman's assistant Doug Mirabello who revealed that the Erik Jendresen "Star Trek: The Beginning" script had been scrapped and that there isn't likely to be any Star Trek in movie theatres or on Television for quite some time says Trekweb.
He also says that to his knowledge there are no plans for using Patrick Stewart in any forthcoming TNG movie projects. "It's more likely that some executive had a casual conversation with him and brought up some hypotheticals which he ran with when some reporter asked him about Star Trek. There's a chance that someone else at Paramount is planning something huge and keeping us out of the loop. From what I've heard, Patrick wouldn't do another Trek movie unless they paid him Professor X money."
Now that the merger between UPN and WB is in full swing, Mirabello is not optimistic about a small screen future either - "The TV side is now technically in control of the franchise's future, and Les Moonves hates all things Sci-Fi. However, I think this is actually for the best - the public needs to want to see Star Trek again. The best way to achieve this is to take it away for a few years and then bring it back and do it right. The franchise needs a totally new creative team, some time off, and a cool new approach".
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060227h.php
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Trek XI Confusion
Paramount pulling a fast one?
by Paul Davidson
February 27, 2006 - Reports and rumors over the past year or so have suggested not one, but two different ideas being pursued for the next Star Trek film. The more publicized possibility for Star Trek XI is a prequel film currently called "Star Trek: The Beginning".
Patrick Stewart, on the other hand, referred to another idea for a TNG-era Star Trek film. "There are serious plans," the captain of the Enterprise-D stated.
However, word now comes via Doug Mirabello, assistant to Trek producer Rick Berman, that plans for Star Trek XI, aka The Beginning, have been scrapped. What's more, now that Paramount's television network, UPN, and the WB network are merging, the television side of the studio is taking firmer control of Star Trek's future, and that future is bleak.
Mirabello also acknowledged the serious flaws in Enterprise that led to its demise. "They had a hit show in the 1980's… they never really evolved with the times. People generally knew when an [Enterprise] episode was bad. We even had one director go to the producers and tell them he was ashamed to direct the episode where our crew turned into lizard people. The finale was one of those where you'd go down to the stage and see people shaking their heads while reading the script."
"The TV side is now technically in control of the franchise's future," Mirabello apparently wrote on an Internet message board, "and [Viacom co-president] Les Moonves hates all things Sci-Fi. However, I think this is actually for the best - the public needs to want to see Star Trek again. The best way to achieve this is to take it away for a few years and then bring it back and do it right." (source: Scifi Pulse)
Back to the possibility of another film, however — how do Stewart's comments regarding an alternate Star Trek XI concept fit into the picture? "It's more likely that some executive had a casual conversation with him and brought up some hypotheticals which he ran with when some reporter asked him about Star Trek," suggested Mirabello. "[But] there's a chance that someone else at Paramount is planning something huge and keeping us out of the loop."
Some fans seem to think there's truth in that "but". What if Paramount has been keeping its options open behind Rick Berman's back? Co-producer Braga has already left the franchise; perhaps if Berman leaves and new blood takes over, Trek could be revitalized.
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/691/691733p1.html
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New Star Trek movie cancelled
Posted by Clint Morris on February 27, 2006
Paramount have put the Enterprise back on bricks.
Though the studio had announced plans to develop a new “Star Trek” film – possibly one that would involve stars from several of the TV show spin-offs - TrekWeb.com has discovered that this is no longer the case. “Star Trek 11” is as dead as veal.
Doug Mirabello, personal assistant to Rick Berman, says there isn’t likely to be any “Star Trek” in movie theatres or on Television for quite some time – regardless of what you may have heard. He also confirmed that Erik Jendresen’s script for “Star Trek The Beginning” has been rejected.
Though recent rumours suggested Patrick Stewart might be back in talks to reprise his role as Captain Picard for a new movie, Mirabello thinks it unlikely.
"It’s more likely that some executive had a casual conversation with him and brought up some hypotheticals which he ran with when some reporter asked him about Star Trek…. [But] there’s a chance that someone else at Paramount is planning something huge and keeping us out of the loop. From what I’ve heard, Patrick wouldn’t do another Trek movie unless they paid him Professor X money…"
“The best way to achieve this is to take it away for a few years and then bring it back and do it right. The franchise needs a totally new creative team, some time off, and a cool new approach."
Thanks to 'Gustavo'
http://www.moviehole.net/news/20060227_new..._cancelled.html
posted on February 28th, 2006, 5:42 pm
humm intresting stuff, but did you have to get three sources that repeated each other lol we belive you with just one 
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well this hasn't exactly brightened my day........ 
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every time i get arount to reading this topic i get depressed, i'll problably just stop..... 
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Nothing is in the works, no characters are being cast
A Paramount Pictures source is denying rumors that have circulated in the last couple days that the studio is preparing a Star Trek film that will feature Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, Capt. James T. Kirk and Capt. Jonathan Archer together.
"You're going to see this a lot right now," the source said. "Without anything announced, you're going to see speculation everywhere. But unless you hear it from someone actually involved, don't believe it, because it likely isn't true."
The recent rumor first reared its head with a news site called CanMag, and quickly was picked up by other sites, including the Bring Back Kirk campaign that mentioned it in its most recent mailing. In the story, Paramount has trashed the idea of a prequel film based on "Starfleet Academy" and have instead decided to move forward with a project that would include the captains from the original series, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and the failed "Star Trek: Enterprise," actors William Shatner, Patrick Stewart and Scott Bakula.
However, pulling off such a feat would be difficult, to say the least. Getting all three actors' schedules to mesh would be problematic in of itself, especially with Shatner now heavily involved in network television (on ABC's "Boston Legal"), and Stewart in his film and stage career.
"Paramount has only asked for one script, and yes, they are deciding whether or not that's the direction they want to go," the source said. "Erik (Jendresen's) script met with mixed reaction, but it has nothing to do with the quality. It has more to do with disagreements among those who are in decision-making capacities as far as it (Star Trek) is concerned. There are no other ideas on the table at this time."
Bryan Singer, known for his director work with the X-Men films as well as the upcoming "Superman" movie, has expressed an interest in taking a leadership role in a Star Trek movie. Soon after that, Singer's friend and fellow X-Men alum Patrick Stewart, also started to express some interest in returning to Star Trek, which some believe was related to Singer's comments.
The source, however, says that there have been absolutely no talks between Singer and Paramount.
"It just hasn't happened, and I don't know if it would happen," the source said. "Bryan is a very talented guy, but he's also a very busy guy. There's a lot he has tackle in the coming months. Scratch that, the coming years."
Whether or not there will be another Star Trek film, and what it will be about, mos t likely won't come until after the dust has settled from the Viacom split and the merging of DreamWorks assets into the company, the source said. Trying to get Paramount back on the winning track at the box office is a top priority, and resurrecting struggling franchises just isn't part of the mix right now.
Of course, even though this has come from a trusted source of SyFy Portal, it has not been officially confirmed by Paramount or Viacom, and should be treated as any rumor would. However, one last thing to note is that the proposed Jendresen Star Trek movie, according to reports as well as his own statements to both SyFy Portal and a British magazine, does not center around Starfleet Academy like CanMag's report suggests.....
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Are We Going to Have More Star Trek Soon, Or Not?
There's been a lot of speculation recently that there could be another Star Trek movie in the works, despite Patrick Stewart's claims when Insurrection tanked that there wouldn't be another Next Generation movie -- or any Trek movie -- in the foreseeable future. Data's not really dead, after all, and the actors still look great, so, why not?
But now comes a report from Dreamwatch magazine (via SciFiPulse) that Doug Mirabello, personal assistant to Rick Berman, that no how, no way, is there any Trek film in development. Erik Jendresen's spec script has been nixed, and there's no validity to claims that Tom Hanks might want to make a Trek movie.
However, let's remember who's talking here. It may well be that there is a film future for Trek that simply doesn't involve Rick Berman, whose contracted control over the franchise is hardly permanent. Even Mirabello himself acknowledges that "there’s a chance that someone else at Paramount is planning something huge and keeping us out of the loop. "
Time will tell...
http://scifi.about.com/b/a/2006_03_02.htm
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Star Trek The Next Generation star Patrick Stewart revealed, in several recent interviews, that there are serious plans for another Star Trek movie featuring the TNG cast, plus characters from various Trek series."Weighty people in Hollywood have come up with a very interesting proposition." he said "But they told me it was still two, three or four years down the road, by which time I would only be able to sit in the captain's chair and not have the energy to get out of it!" (story). In another interview, Stewart revealed that "It has been raised. Apparently there's interest in bringing The Next Generation cast together with actors from different Star Trek series."(story)
Now, producer Rick Berman tries to set the record straight in brief statements to the british Star Trek Magazine. "If you notice, the stories say 'names important people in Hollywood,' but that's not people at Paramount, I don't think," said Berman. As to Patrick Stewart reprising the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the proposed TNG movie. "I have no idea what that's all about. I’ve read that he says he's open to doing another movie and then I’ve read he's said 'I'm too old to do another movie.' So I have no idea what that is. And anything I'd say to speculate would be silly."
Berman did not confirm or deny the report from his personal assistant that the Erik Jendresen Star Trek The Beginning script had been canned.
The original report can be found at Sci Fi Pulse.
To read the full article, get the new issue of Star Trek Magazine at your local newsstand.
http://trekweb.com/articles/2006/03/24/4424e07d9adb6.shtml
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