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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sandman on July 31, 2006, 11:30:08 AM
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Matt Damon is listed to play James T. Kirk. Should be interesting. I think Shatner rocks, but unlike Shatner, Damon can actually act. :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/
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Is that confirmed? Last I heard, the only confirmation was that JJ Abrams was directing.
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no way
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Originally posted by Chairboy
Is that confirmed? Last I heard, the only confirmation was that JJ Abrams was directing.
Not really confirmed. From what I gather, it's all rumor.
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A prequil?
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Originally posted by Mini D
A prequil?
Looks like it:
According to a report filed on a reputable website, Matt Damon is slated to play the role of Cadet James T. Kirk. The newest installment of the Star Trek franchise will be an Original Series Prequel, focusing on Kirk, Spock, and McCoy during their Starfleet Academy days.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/plotsummary
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Originally posted by Sandman
I think Shatner rocks, but unlike Shatner, Damon can actually act. :)
I think you need to get out and see more movies if you really think that waste of flesh can act better than a lump of poo. :p
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(http://inthemist.org/images/TeamAmerica.jpg)
Matt Damon!
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Originally posted by Mustaine
I think you need to get out and see more movies if you really think that waste of flesh can act better than a lump of poo. :p
Who are you calling a lump of poo?
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Originally posted by Denny_Crane!
Who are you calling a lump of poo?
whittle boy damon. him and buddy aflack can eat my toe jam. :aok
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Affleck sucks out loud.
Okay... so any guesses to who will play the rest of the crew?
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Mike Meyers as Scotty!
"That Klingon'll be cryin' himself to sleep tuhnight on 'is huge pillah."
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Damon can act.
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Star trek isnt the same without the real original actors
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Hmm last i "heard/read" the whole prequal thing about kirk,spock and mccoy want going to happen.
but, who knows. untill they actually have ascript and start filiming then we shall see.
ill try and dig up the article with abrams and where he said that the next startrek installment wasnt going to be about the "early" years of the original crew. I think after enterprise paramount figures that going backward with startrek isnt a good thing.
I could be wrong though...it happend once before. :O
i wont be able to dig up the article till i get home from work, i fairly sure that I have it on my home machine
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Originally posted by Sandman
Matt Damon is listed to play James T. Kirk. Should be interesting. I think Shatner rocks, but unlike Shatner, Damon can actually act. :)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/
I've heard that these friends of LePaul's (Non-star war fans, but fanatics nonetheless) will be trying out for the new roles:
(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/173072898.jpg)
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I've heard that these friends of LePaul's (Non-star war fans, but fanatics nonetheless) will be trying out for the new roles:
(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/173072898.jpg)
So... I'm guessing that they've amassed a total of 0.5 dates between them. :aok
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So... I'm guessing that they've amassed a total of 0.5 dates between them.
Their dates are giving us the Vulcan greeting in that photo.
Charon
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Originally posted by Tarmac
(http://inthemist.org/images/TeamAmerica.jpg)
Matt Damon!
:rofl I was hoping no one else would post it before me.
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Well it looks like the dead franchise is still moving. I guess that makes it a zombie franchise. Star Trek XI is moving ahead, and at Comic-Con this week revealed an initial poster that looks old school Star Trek.
On top of that, the whole "Matt Damon as Captain Kirk" thing just won't go away. The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) now has Matt listed as playing James T. Kirk. But then again... we all know how unreliable the IMDB is for movies that aren't actually out yet. Remember, they also had Paul Betany listed as The Joker for the next Batman flick.
Personally, and for the record, I still don't believe Matt Damon will do this project. There doesn't seem to be any upside for him in it. But who knows right? Strangers things have happened.
So what does all this mean?
I've said it before... Star Trek is a dead franchise. I've also said that the only way they're going to breath new life into it is if they do a radical departure from the existing formula. Do one of the following:
1) Restart the franchise with a whole new vision much like what Battlestar Galactica did. Get a blonde Scotty or a female Kirk even.
2) Focus on something OTHER than the damn Federation. As Doug suggested, do a whole film just on the Klingon Empire or something.
3) We're all sick to death of the moral 100% purity of everyone on a damn starship. Get real. Have the captain nailing the first officers wife, have an engineer with a drug problem, have a security chief who hates his job, have a helmsman who dislikes the captain and struggles with depression. Everyone on Star Trek is so squealing sanitized that it makes it unwatchable.
4) Screw the Trekkies. Don't make a new Star Trek trying to please those hard core Trekkie fans. They are a dying breed and haven't helped with any of the other projects in over a decade. Where were they when Enterprise couldn't stay on the air because of the bad ratings? Where were they when all the Star Trek movies have bombed at the box office? Screw them. Make the best movie you can without one lick of thought to the Trekkies. Don't box yourselves in.
If a new Star Trek project doesn't embrace at least 2 of the above... then Star Trek XI is just going to be a zombie. A dead thing that's still walking around.
John Campea July 2006
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Mr. Campea sounds bitter.
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Originally posted by Sandman
Mr. Campea sounds bitter.
And, apparently he takes this all very seriously.................... ..........
Be great to see a new trek flick...but for petes sake DONT change the formula....might as well not call it star trek if its not, umm, star trek.
Lets re-do Aces High, but with ......race cars, yeah!
cripes...change the formula? :huh
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yanno .. there are a slew of decent books based on the 'old school' franchise that could make decent movies (I know ..my wife got me hooked on em and I have a bunch in a box, somewhere ).
They'd just have to put out a casting call for crew ..Shatner and crew were the folks that brought it alive, who's next to keep it goin :)
-GE (misses the 'first' Mr. Savik terribly ..she *rocked*)
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They've made 10 of those turds now? Holy Crap.
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Personally, I think 2, 4, 6, 7, and 8 were pretty darn good, myself. Just a matter of taste, I guess.
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As a generations fan growing up I liked the "generations" movies myself. It's not so much that they where GREAT movies, they just showed Genereations in a different light and for longer than an hour/commercial free.
Just my .02$