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Brian Damage · 09-09-2008, 09:29 PM

Apparently JJ Abrams originally wrote William Shatner into the new Star Trek reboot.

“We actually had written a scene with him in it that was a flashback kind of thing,” Abrams told AMCtv. “But the truth is, it didn’t quite feel right. The bigger thing was that he was very vocal that he didn’t want to do a cameo. We tried desperately to put him in the movie, but he was making it very clear that he wanted the movie to focus on him significantly, which, frankly, he deserves. The truth is, the story that we were telling required a certain adherence to the Trek canon and consistency of storytelling. It’s funny — a lot of the people who were proclaiming that he must be in this movie were the same people saying it must adhere to canon. Well, his character died on screen. Maybe a smarter group of filmmakers could have figured out how to resolve that.”

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TJL · 09-09-2008, 10:08 PM

Too bad Shatner isn't going to be in this one, considering it's a story about Kirk's early life.

This movie better be good. We have to wait almost another year to see it!

tv star collector · 09-10-2008, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TJL

Too bad Shatner isn't going to be in this one, considering it's a story about Kirk's early life.

This movie better be good. We have to wait almost another year to see it!

I don't know how William Shatner could portray a young Captain Kirk
today, though.

I know they can do wonders with makeup, but ...
maybe with CGI, they could pull it off.

If I'm not mistaken, I seem to recall Shatner did find a way to resurrect Kirk in a novel a few years ago.

TJL · 09-10-2008, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tv star collector

I don't know how William Shatner could portray a young Captain Kirk
today, though.

I know they can do wonders with makeup, but ...
maybe with CGI, they could pull it off.

If I'm not mistaken, I seem to recall Shatner did find a way to resurrect Kirk in a novel a few years ago.

The upcoming Star Trek movie is going to have new actors portraying the original series cast in thier younger years. Leonard Nimoy is going to have a cameo as the older Spock, so I guess they're doing some sort of flashback thing.

Shatner (and a few other writers) wrote Star Trek: The Return a novel in which Kirk is brought back to life after his death on Veridian III.

09-09-2008, 09:29 PM	#1
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