Star Wars & Sc-Fi Talk
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Paramount are idiots who don't know what to do with Trek, they don't understand what made it popular so they consistently try to make it more like Star Wars or Transformers and are constantly desperate to make it appeal to a teenage demographic since VOY.
Simon Pegg is writing and his recent comments on SF actually gives me hope that he will try to produce a smart screenplay while that was clearly too much for Bob Orci to handle.
Simon Pegg is writing and his recent comments on SF actually gives me hope that he will try to produce a smart screenplay while that was clearly too much for Bob Orci to handle.
ABC78
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With Simon Pegg working on the script I hope he brings back some of the buddy comradery that was part of the original series.
Though it seems he's running into some resistance.
[Simon Pegg Talks Original STAR TREK 3 Script - AMC Movie News
Published on May 22, 2015
In an interview with Radio Times Magazine, Star Trek 3 co-writer and co-star Simon Pegg said the following about the project:
They had a script for Star Trek that wasn’t really working for them. I think the studio was worried that it might have been a little bit too Star Trek-y.
Avengers Assemble, which is a pretty nerdy, comic-book, supposedly niche thing, made $1.5 dollars. Star Trek: Into Darkness made half a billion, which is still brilliant. But it means that, according to the studio, there’s still $1 billion worth of box office that don’t go and see Star Trek. And they want to know why.]
Star Trek (the new one) cost $150 million to make and did the following:
USA Sales: $257,730,000
ROW Sales: $127,950,000
Total: $385,680,000
Star Trek: Into darkness, which cost $190 million to make did this:
USA Sales: $228,779,000
ROW Sales: $238,603,000
Total: $467,382,000
I liked both movies. I expect Star Trek 3 will do similarly, depending on how much ROW sales it can bring in.
Of the other ten older Star Trek movies, Star Trek: First Contact did the best in 1996 with the following:
USA Sales: $92,028,000
ROW Sales: $54,000,000
Total: $146,028,000
Which was pretty decent 20 years ago.
USA Sales: $257,730,000
ROW Sales: $127,950,000
Total: $385,680,000
Star Trek: Into darkness, which cost $190 million to make did this:
USA Sales: $228,779,000
ROW Sales: $238,603,000
Total: $467,382,000
I liked both movies. I expect Star Trek 3 will do similarly, depending on how much ROW sales it can bring in.
Of the other ten older Star Trek movies, Star Trek: First Contact did the best in 1996 with the following:
USA Sales: $92,028,000
ROW Sales: $54,000,000
Total: $146,028,000
Which was pretty decent 20 years ago.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Scene opens on the Millennium Falcon
* Chewbacca Howls in Anger *
Han Solo Ducks Ah! Chewwie I Didn't mean it... You know I only have Eyes for you... Oh Come on Let's Talk this over * Ducks as Chewbacca Throws things at him.* Come on Leia is just a close Friend.... You don't need to go to your Mothers....
Apparently... Han is hitched and it's not to Leia. When I saw the Headline " Han Solo has a Wife and It's not Leia.. The Skit above popped in my head.
* Chewbacca Howls in Anger *
Han Solo Ducks Ah! Chewwie I Didn't mean it... You know I only have Eyes for you... Oh Come on Let's Talk this over * Ducks as Chewbacca Throws things at him.* Come on Leia is just a close Friend.... You don't need to go to your Mothers....
Apparently... Han is hitched and it's not to Leia. When I saw the Headline " Han Solo has a Wife and It's not Leia.. The Skit above popped in my head.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
This is sad news Christopher Lee was a legendary Actor known for more then just Count Duku, he was Hammer films Dracula, Solomon the White in lord of the Rings, Scaramanga in James Bond The man with the golden Gun, and far far more his filmography is the stuff Actors dream of.and Scifi fans adore. A great has left us.
Saruman is no more.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
we mentioned his films now we should mention that Sir. Christopher Lee, was a Genuine BAD---. Born in England in 1922 His mother was an Italian Countess said to be descended from Charlemagne, His Father is a distant relitive of American Civil war general Robert E Lee and served as as a Colonel in the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps in bothe the Boar Wars and the First world war. Christopher attended Wellington College where he was a Classics major and a big time Athlete including fencing and working as a Clerk. in 1939 Lee quit that job hopped a boat to Finland joined the Finish army intent on fighting the Soviet invasion of Finland. a year later he was back in England with Nazi Germany as his new enemy. He enlisted in the RAF as a intelligence officer. then he went to North Africa where he was attached to the Long Range Desert Patrol the preciser of the SAS.
Served in the SOE who were them selves no wimps. Special Operations Executive was founded to conduct recon, Sabotage and Espionage behind enemy lines in Europe.
He is quoted as saying of serving in WW2:
"I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise we would never have won."
He was decorated by the Czech, Yugoslavian, English, and Polish governments. In 1947 he caught the acting bug and is the most prolific actor in history. but when he played a hero on film it should be remembered that this man was only acting the Character not the hero part He already earned that. What most leading men play as HE WAS. Period.
Served in the SOE who were them selves no wimps. Special Operations Executive was founded to conduct recon, Sabotage and Espionage behind enemy lines in Europe.
He is quoted as saying of serving in WW2:
"I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise we would never have won."
He was decorated by the Czech, Yugoslavian, English, and Polish governments. In 1947 he caught the acting bug and is the most prolific actor in history. but when he played a hero on film it should be remembered that this man was only acting the Character not the hero part He already earned that. What most leading men play as HE WAS. Period.
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Miragedriver
Brigadier
I see this sheep and I think of that Star Trek episode
A sheep that has been nicknamed 'The Phantom' by its owner, sheep farmer Paul Phillips, from Kimbolton, Herefordshire. The animal was born in february and is a dead ringer of the Phantom of the Opera, that was played by legendary actor Michael Crawford.
Picture: Henry Nicholls / Newsteam
Back to bottling my Grenache
A sheep that has been nicknamed 'The Phantom' by its owner, sheep farmer Paul Phillips, from Kimbolton, Herefordshire. The animal was born in february and is a dead ringer of the Phantom of the Opera, that was played by legendary actor Michael Crawford.
Picture: Henry Nicholls / Newsteam
Back to bottling my Grenache