Star Wars is a franchise of limitless potential, a whole galaxy to play in, thousands of years of history and a whole uncharted future. But by all means make a movie version of one of the shows.
Fear is the mindkiller for Disney.
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The budget is the killer for Amazon:
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Was probably just a question of time. More streamers fighting for a piece of a shrinking market under pressure of a cost-of-living/inflation crisis. Several big budget projects eating into running operations without significantly growing subscription numbers…it was all heading for a cost-cutting quake. We’ll likely see more of this.
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I suspect we are entering the “who’s-merging-with-whom” phase.
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Rockets are expensive.
It seems that making a new Star Trek movie is as difficult as making a new Bond movie.
Spoiler: Don’t expect any of these to actually get made…
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Paramount seem to be doing many things right with Strange New Worlds (and to some degree the last season of Picard). If I were them I’d concentrate on that task and leave the big screen aspirations for now. How much appetite for the Abrams-Enterprise crew is there anyway?
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Possibly more appetite for a big screen Strange New Worlds
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If anything. I’m not even sure a two-hour movie would play to the strengths of that ensemble. On the show we’ve had room to explore the complexities of the various relationships and interactions. There was that fabulous bring-on-the-shark-so-we-can-jump-loops-around-it musical episode, the ptsd theme between Chapel and the doc, the love triangle/tricky-Vulcan-etiquette, the Lower Decks crossover and lots more stuff to love about this quirky show.
In a film we’d primarily get a cgi fest. Probably overlong and with at least three endings.
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I agree completely, it would be a poorer movie than anything produced for TV. It’s just that as a cast they are uniformly better than the Abraham’s crew.
In my humble opinion.
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That too. I never quite understood the Abrams approach, most of the characters seemed either off or hugely misrepresented. SNW’s Enterprise crew strikes me as much more interesting in comparison. Not necessarily more faithful to TOS but comfortable in doing its own thing while not discarding the show that came almost 60 years earlier.
Not everything is/was wrong about Abrams’ reboot - but charm it somehow didn’t do in spite of its cast.
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I did and do like the reboot and its cast, but the stories were repeating the traitor plot point (sounds familiar?) and suffered from making Trek too much like Wars.
Sure, maybe in those times the more philosophical oriented original Trek was not suspected to have the box office impact Paramount wanted, but I agree that Trek should rather concentrate on its strenghts as a tv show which does not need the umpteenth laser fight and explosion.
I just find it weird how the committee filmmaking these days was incapable of creating a follow-up film for the new cast so far. At this rate, a reboot of the reboot seems more likely.
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I am surprised that they never caught on to the fact that the best Star Trek movies are extended versions of television episodes with (modestly, not extravagantly) increased production values.
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Wish that Blumhouse could have seen the light on this prior to making Believer. What a slap in the face to William Friedkin and the original film that thing was. And now they’re going to be saddled with that crappy story as they try to move forward and actually make a worthy sequel to the original film. Gordon Greene may have exited the franchise, but he’s left this successor a massive hole to climb out of.
The movies I’m most looking forward to in 2024 are:
ARGYLLE (Feb. 2) Looks interesting and it’s good to see Henry Cavill again who’s my pick for the next James Bond 007.
FALL GUY (May 3) Was my favorite TV show as a kid so I’m looking forward to seeing what they do here.
HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA: CHAPTER 1 (June 28) Kevin Costner is always good.
DEADPOOL 3 (July 26) Will be good to see Hugh Jackman as Wolverine again and how he works with/plays off of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool.
KRAVEN THE HUNTER (Aug. 30) Am interested in seeing Aaron Taylor-Johnson and if he gives off any James Bond vibes in an admittedly un-Bond role. Right now, he’s my #2 choice for the next 007. And I’m a Spider-Man fan so there’s that too. 